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Some of my recent "work"...
Nice to hear from some familiar names! Did I hear that we lost one of the senior members of the group? :'(
My sons are now aged 11(!) and 8, and the younger one, William is particularly into Pokemon. I therefore invented some spoof Pokemon characters called Pukemoron.
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Some of my recent work...
On a more serious note, I designed the cover artwork for my father's memoirs; "Grandpa's Book". This book covers the first 25 years of his life, from his childhood in prewar Vienna to his flight from persecution and his upbringing and early adulthood in London. He will be 80 this December, and he wanted to tell his grandchildren about where he (and ultimately they) had come from.
This cover design could not have been produced using earlier versions of Xara, and I am grateful to my dad for having bought a copy of XaraXtreme Pro for me.
The background of the cover is a modified texture from a standalone program called Wood Workshop. The photo of my father aged about 8 is one he sent to his own grandparents from London, treated with Xara's Crumple plug-in. The red stamped letter J (for "Jud", meaning "Jew") is based on the one on my father's Austrian passport; the document allowed him to leave Austria, by then part of Hitler's Reich, with his mother but not return. I found a matching typeface and used Xara's Fractal Plasma as a transparency map to give the effect of a rubber stamp. The title and author text uses a font called Kabel Heavy, processed with Xara's Chrome plug-in. I found a bitmap of flames on the internet and used it as a reflection map. On the back cover, the photo is one I took last year when the two of us visited Vienna together to witness the dedication of a memorial plaque outside my grandparents' former home.
If you are interested in reading "Grandpa's Book", you can buy it as a download or a paperback from Lulu.