'Memories' is a collective of 144 British and international artists who have each designed and donated a bespoke work of art to illustrate and interpret 12 true-life stories of loss and survival from cancer.  

The artists include Vaughan Oliver, Si Scott, Deane Cheuk, Mario Hugo, Gary Taxali and Autumn Whitehurst and hail from cities around the globe: London, Paris, New York, Barcelona, Queensland, Bangkok, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and more.

Memories is the brainchild of four well-known, independent UK-based creatives: Stuart Boyd, Antony Kitson, Rishi Sodha and Garrick Webster, who came together with a desire to do something by the creative industry to help people who are being touched by cancer today. Their personal ethos is motivated by having been touched in some way in their own lives by cancer.

Pre-orders for Memories are being taken at www.memories.Subism.co.uk. The cover price of £10 makes Memories accessible to everyone, including brassic art and design students around the world who would want to own the book as an unending source of inspirational reference. The cover price in its entirety will be donated to Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres in the UK. The charity helps hundreds of cancer victims and their families every day, and each purpose-built sanctuary fosters an atmosphere of understanding, support - and design creativity. 

Memories creative team (L-R) Garrick Webster, Rishi Sodha, Stuart Boyd and Anthony Kitson

Memories will change the way its owners think about cancer. Its approach removes fear by immersing the reader in a carnival of human creativity, showing the power of our race to grab life by the scruff of the neck and enjoy it, whatever the adversity.

Garrick Webster, co-producer and editor of Memories said, “The stories in the book are all very emotional - they give reason for great sympathy, and also for lots of hope. All the ideas, feelings and experienced only seemed to bring the best out of the creative people involved and the way the artists have responded to the text is astounding. The result is something very inspiring and very powerful too."

The book is being published with the help of the writers, artists and many friends including UK-based printers Taylor Bloxham.

We recieved a copy at the Cream office yesterday, and it really is a work of beauty. Memories is more than simply a book about the big C. It takes a subject that has touched just about everyone’s life, turns it on its head in a master-stroke of lateral thinking, and truly celebrates the way cancer can move the human spirit to make really good things happen.

Buy your copy here.