Published in Liverpool, printed in Romania, this is one of the most striking book covers I've come across.Why didn't the photo-watercolour combination catch on?
Friday, October 22, 2010
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5 comments:
Extraordinary. Is it possible that it was one of those schemes where you send in a photo of your child and it gets placed on the front of the book?
If I had a time machine, I'd zip back to 1985 with that business idea. I'd be a rich man now.
Or possibly a winning submission in a
"How To Make A Bad Illustration Worse" contest.
Life before Photoshop............
My ghod her HAND! What happened to that poor girl's HAND?
I think this new, 'with-it' edition is hoping to distract young people from the hypnotising effects of television. Yodelling, anyone?
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