Very glad to have you and your simplicity gracing these pages once more. I'm amazed how you can make so much from so little - love the underground scene at Regents Park.
I'm off to Lulu.com to check out Narwhal Plays the Nyckelharpa.
Very glad to have you and your simplicity gracing these pages once more. I'm amazed how you can make so much from so little - love the underground scene at Regents Park.
I'm off to Lulu.com to check out Narwhal Plays the Nyckelharpa.
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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx.
It's work in progress - I had some production problems with "Bob" so I thought I'd make sure that the upload works as the book progresses! The reason it's "available to buy" is that the ISBN number isn't accessible if you don't make the book available, and I needed to make sure that the back cover design worked.
The typeface for "Narwal Plays the Nyckelharpa" was designed by a Japanese designer - I asked if he would let me use it, and he very kindly gave me permission to use it for free because he liked my illustrations! I had been looking for something similar to the 1960s Ladybird Books typeface, and that one was just right.
"Communication is everything"
"Communication is everything"
Here is a sample from a work in progress, called "Narwhal Plays the Nyckelharpa". As you can probably see, it's an alphabet book, with each letter having its own animal (upper case initial) and musical instrument (lower case), plus a few facts about each one. The instruments are traced by hand from photos found on the Web, and the animals are (obviously) drawn freehand. I wanted a typeface like the one used by Ladybird Books in the 1960s, but I couldn't find one that was quite right. Finally I found this one: http://www.dafont.com/resiple.font, so I e-mailed its designer, Tomoyuki Watanabe, to ask if I could use it. He replied saying that I could use it for free because he like my graphics so much!
"Communication is everything"
Love them, love them, love them.
Allison
Fun and creative stuff, Simon.
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Hi!
I'm back again. I am still working on the animal/instrument alphabet book, but in the meantime I have illustrated Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat", and created a website with low-res images of the complete content of all my finished books so far, and descriptions of the process of creating each one. There are also links so you can buy the actual books (very nicely-produced saddle-stitched paperbacks with glossy covers).
www.twinkleshark.co.uk
Meanwhile, are there any agents (or even publishers) out there who would like to contact me? Just wondering...
Last edited by Simon Beck; 07 October 2012 at 04:17 PM.
"Communication is everything"
Just for fun, I offered to help spruce up what is probably the best guitar blog on the Web - "Guitarz". Here is the site's old banner (top) and my redesigned one, with new logo and "greenburst" background based on the finish of a vintage Burns guitar. I sent the site's owner half a dozen font variants and then a range of background colours based on vintage guitars.
Total design time: about 45 minutes. Using Xara, of course...
"Communication is everything"
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