Mement

A journal that draws

Your life,
sketched.

Give Mement a photograph from your day and it gives you back ink on paper — the way you’ll remember it, not the way the camera saw it. Then write a line beneath. Or don’t.

A Mement page: the campanile in Venice drawn in ink, with a typewritten note beneath
I.From photograph to page
Photograph of St Mark's Campanile from the water
the photograph
The same view as a two-colour letterpress illustration
VENICE
No. 01
brick / bell / lagoon
2026

Not a filter. The photograph is redrawn — composition kept, everything else reconsidered — and pressed onto the page as if it had always been there.

II.Four inks
Ink Press rendering
Ink Press
stamped · muted · two-colour
Field Pencil rendering
Field Pencil
coloured pencil · ink outline
Van Gogh rendering
Van Gogh
thick strokes · swirling
Michelangelo rendering
Michelangelo
red chalk · renaissance study

You choose the ink once, before the drawing is made. One drawing per page.

III.A book, not an app

Pages you turn
with your thumb.

No tab bar. No feed. A cover with your name pressed into it, a contents page that fills as the year goes on, and a next blank page that’s always waiting.

At the end of December the book closes. In January, a new volume.

The leather cover with EBRAR embossed in gold
The contents page listing dated entries
Choosing an ink before drawing
IV.Your photographs stay yours
PHOTOGRAPHS ARE NOT STORED
Sent once for drawing, then discarded. Never kept on a server of ours. Never used to train anything.

To make a drawing, your photograph is sent once and drawn once. The only copy lives in your book, on your phone. We couldn’t show it to anyone if we wanted to. Read the privacy policy.

A page drawn in the Van Gogh ink

Most days slip past unrecorded.

Not because they didn’t matter — because a photo roll is a poor place to keep them.