Thank You Jonopen. Your bird in a book cover is great! I have fun to see this.
Servus Ernie
Thank You Jonopen. Your bird in a book cover is great! I have fun to see this.
Servus Ernie
LOL - very good - thanks all :-)
As you all no doubt realised the design was 'borrowed' from an early style Penguin paperback from the days before they used imagery on their covers.
I expect only hd will get the alternative idea (below). It relates to a piece of 1960's graffiti from the docks at Hull, a northern UK coastal city.
Jono (Jon)
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer+
@Ernie, Nice graphics.
Yes it was done in Affinity Designer on a Mac. I switched over a few years ago, but my heart still belongs to Xara. I think it's a first love sort of thing! There are still quite a few techniques I only know how to do using P&GD.
@handrawn - nice find. I've just read the story behind its creation - a trawler captain nurtured an injured seagull back to health, only for it to be killed by the coxswain just before being released from the box it was kept in. When a crew member was asked, "what's inside the box?", he quickly said "a dead bod". I've seen it at the Humber Street gallery but didn't know the background story.
Jono (Jon)
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer+
aye @ernie - sharp and to the point as usual
@jono - it is said he was drunk when he painted it - true or not there was an real kerfuffle when the sheds were due for demolition - it had become a fixture seen from boat on the estuary
not exactly a banksy, perhaps ahead of it's time
Last edited by handrawn; 06 March 2024 at 06:41 PM. Reason: tautology
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