Memories Creating an amazing art book for the cancer charity Maggie's
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Grab your copy Inside Memories you’ll find 144 beautiful pieces of art and 12 touching stories about individuals who’ve battled cancer. A truly stunning book and a must-have for anyone who loves art. PLUS – proceeds of sales go to the charity Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres order today and support this great cause. Shipping UK [...]
Memories book released!
After more than two years working on the Memories book project, we’ve finally launched the publication. The event took place last night at the impressive, award-winning Maggie’s Centre at Charing Cross Hospital in London. What a fantastic evening it was too with a whole host of artists and designers there to enjoy Freedom Organic Lager [...]
The Memories launch
Great news for the Memories project. We’ve announced our launch date which is 1 December, and we’ve invited all the creatives who worked on the project to join us at the Maggie’s Centre in London. It’s going to be an exciting evening when, at last, we can unveil the book. Also on hand will be [...]
Computer Arts Feature
We are pleased to announce Memories has a feature in December’s Computer Arts magazine issue #195. The article features a great write up about our collaboration, the work behind the brief, some of the artists involved and how we got the book printed. Here are a few snaps of the magazine. If you wan’t to [...]
Pre-order your copy now!
Guarantee your copy of Memories by pre-ordering it from the Subism website. Simply click the link above and select the correct ordering option depending on where you live, and we’ll send you a copy of the book as soon as it arrives back from the printers. Inside you’ll find a dozen wonderfully written texts by [...]
Print proof in the flesh
Late last night the neighbours knocked on the door, handing over a package I’d been waiting for from our printers Taylor Bloxham. Fantastic – a pagination and build proof of Memories. Trouble was, I was swamped with work and didn’t have time or energy to get excited and go totally mental over it. Saved that [...]
Memories artist’s brighten up manchester!
 From 15th – 21st August 2011, Manchester is played host to the internationally known art collective, Subism. Four of Subism’s artists that will feature in the Memories Book, created a themed piece of art on one of the most prominent walls in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. With the help of Ridelow, a local Manchester business, [...]
Welcome Jenny Robins
Another fine artist we discovered during our Open Submissions process is London-based Jenny Robins. She’s an illustrator who loves drawing birds, as well as being an art teacher. She got in touch and created an image for the story The Secret we Know by Tom Stables. “I like live drawing, layering textures, cooking and dancing [...]
Josh Lowe for Memories
Josh Lowe aka Deus is an multi disciplined artist, graphic design and illustrator by day and graffiti/street artist by night. Part of the Four Pence and Subism Collective, Josh can be seen creating hugh brightly coloured murals. You can’t help but smile at the cheeky characters and wild letter styles often containing his name ‘Deus’, [...]
Jason Devine – the clue is in the name
Okay, okay, divine is spelled with an I… but you know what we’re saying. It’s the work of young creatives like Jason Devine that is going to make flicking through the Memories book such a heavenly experience. Jason’s another illustrator we found via our Open Submissions strategy and he has created an image to go [...]
Hello John Lees
Today we welcome aboard John Lees, an interesting young artist who has just finished an FdA in graphic design and who has a passion for illustration. John is another person we just would not have found without our Open Submissions procedure – he got in touch, we asked him to illustrate Joe Kriss’s poem Otherside, [...]
Mighty Oscar
Today we welcome Oscar Armelles to the Memories project. He came across our project on the web and got in touch via our Open Submissions programme. So we sent him The Secret we Know, a story by Tom Stables that will be in the Memories book. Oscar created his own take on Tom’s text with [...]
Welcome Olga
Say hello, everyone, to Olga Filaktou, a Greek artist and designer who has worked in agencies around Europe. Like many of the other creatives we’ve posted about recently, she found out about Memories via our Open Submissions program, and when we looked through the artwork we knew we’d found someone special to go in the [...]
We dig Polski Andi
Rain is beating down on the roof here at the Memories outpost in Bath, UK, but that can’t stop us from telling you about another fine young artist who is contributing to the project. Andi Rusyn is of Polish extraction and based in the West Midlands from whence he practices his design and illustration trade [...]
Meet Sebastian Ramn
Today we’re introducing the talented Sebastian Ramn, one of the artists we found through our Open Submissions process. He loves to travel and he found out about Memories while working as a freelance photographer in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He dropped us a line, received our brief and the story entitled The Secret we Know which will [...]
How about Alexander Otto?
Yes, folks, how about the awesomeness of the Hamburg-based illustrator Alexander Otto? Please give him a warm welcome to the Memories project. We just know this young designer and illustrator is going to be a big star. He joined the project through our Open Submissions programme and he’s told us how great he thinks the [...]
Thom Lambert is on board
Hello folks, sorry for the bloggio silence. I’ve been doing some pretty interesting stuff like writing a feature about Star Wars and interviewing Jim Lee and Dan DiDio at DC Comics. Which is totally besides the point because even cooler than that is the news that the talented designer, illustrator and DJ Thom Lambert is [...]
Meet Memories artist Saroj Patel
Each artist who’s created an image for Memories brings with them their own unique style. What you get with Saroj Patel, who joined the project via our Open Submissions program, is a really interesting combination of graphical flair alongside intricate line work and dashes of colour and pattern. There’s so much fluidity and motion in [...]
Ariane joins Memories
Today we’re letting you know about another great talent to contribute to our book project. Ariane Rothluebbers is part German, part French, part illustrator, part designer and based in London, and she joined us via our Open Submissions program. Ariane works in a variety of different ways and you’ll find some lovely mixed media work [...]
Hello Botto
“Professionally, it’s our responsibility to leverage minds and hands when charity calls,” says Bryan Flynn of Botto Arts. “Personally, I’ve lost too many people in my life to cancer. When I learned about the Memories project, and the Open Submissions program, I had pencil to paper in the same moment.” And we’re really pleased that [...]
Cover art unveiled!
Long in the planning, we can finally tell you all about the front cover of Memories. We have an outstanding mood image by Luke O’Neill and our print sponsor Taylor Bloxham has thrown in two special finishes that we requested – silver foil and a spot UV. (To non-designers, spot UV is a glossy finish [...]
Meet Robert Cohen
Another great artist we found for the book through our Open Submissions process is Robert Cohen. Since the 1980s he has been exploring forms in the digital realm, creating his unique abstract 3D pieces. Not only that, but he also works with several other artists under the banner of Artwerx Digital. The piece you see [...]
OFFF BCN.
If any of our Memories artists are attending OFFF this year in Barcelona be sure to say hello to Antony who is representing the Memories team at OFFF, which takes place 9-11 June. To get in touch with Antony tweet @MemoriesBook, @oneteneleven or email info@oneteneleven.com. Antony will have a number of Memories flyers with him [...]
Hello Match Zimmerman
Today we’re letting you know about Match Zimmerman, another top artist whose work will appear in Memories. Match got in touch with us via our Open Submissions program and we sent him the poem Otherside, by Joe Kriss, to work on. In response, he’s done a great piece of art that will appear in the [...]