
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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Quite often we’ve found that the creatives who have really excelled in making an illustration for the Memories book have been touched profoundly by cancer themselves. Johanna Velasco is a designer based in the Philippines who got in touch with us via our Open Submissions process, took our brief and came up with a stunning [...]

We have several things to tell you about today, but let’s start with announcing the participation of the designer and illustrator Dona Vajgand. Based in Sombor, Serbia, her passion is painting and she found out about Memories online and joined the project through our Open Submissions set-up. You can check out her site here. According [...]

Today we unveil another of our talented Open Submissions winners, the always-fresh Mr Dines. He’s a young digital designer who we’re proud to have on board. After training in design and typography at Southampton Solent University, Dines has taken his practice up to London. He’s the founder of Studio Blup and has built a strong [...]

One of the artists that submitted work via our Open Submissions process was the Glasgow-based illustrator and designer Jili Allen, and today we’re welcoming her to the project with a blog post letting everyone know about her fantastic creativity. Not only is her artwork skillfully executed, but there are touching reasons behind why Jili wanted [...]

What a long weekend, eh? It kicked off with a royal wedding and seems to be winding up with the elimination of a reviled global terrorist. History as it happens. But wait… though not as internationally momentous, the Memories project has news of its own that is very dear to all of us. We’d like [...]

After we sent Nancy Mungcal the story written by Tom Stables for Memories, she created an incredible, symbolic image of some scissors to go with it. The image is surprising, really, because normally her illustration work includes little characters like the one you see here. Her submission for the book is full of intricacy, and [...]

A colourful Memories welcome to Paul Garland, a UK-based illustrator selected to work on Gordon Kirk’s story New Life. Helping out with the project was particularly meaningful for Paul. His wife was diagnosed with Breast Cancer a year ago and they’ve had a very tough year. “As my daughter is of a similar age to [...]

Point 273 makes art, designs, curates and now and then gets time to organise the Best Joined Up live art events. It’s fantastic to have him on board the Memories project, and he’s created an illustration to go with Patrick Woodcock’s poem Swimming with Dolphins… He’s worked for such clients as Channel 4, BBE Records [...]

If you’re London-based, or in the capital anytime between 17 and 27 March, don’t forget to stop by the Pick Me Up art fair and exhibition at Somerset House. The reason we say this is because Memories artist Julien Roare, aka Jules Julien, will be showing and selling his work there. I’ve interviewed Julien a [...]

Today we’re able to announce that illustrator and designer Julian James is part of the Memories project. Julian has created an image to go with the story Tom’s Frozen Army, about Tom Preston who survived leukemia. Julian works as an illustrator under the moniker Whyisbox and also runs the digital magazine NewSugar which features cool [...]

The Memories team is pleased to announce that Zoë Bather from Studio 8 has agreed to be apart of our project and has created a wonderful piece for the book. Zoë brings with her vast design experience having previously worked at Frost* before starting Studio 8 with Matt Wiley. Her excellent typographic sensibilities means she has spoken [...]