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ounds in recent years,” he says. “Movie<br />
studios have realised there’s a market for<br />
them, and magazines commission them<br />
to be made for gallery exhibitions.” A<br />
couple of months later we asked him into<br />
the office, hoping to get him to do us a<br />
take on a 50s travel poster, incorporating<br />
modern-style hipster figures, for this<br />
‘vintage’ issue. “How about I do a take<br />
on a 50s travel poster, only with modernstyle<br />
hipster figures?” he suggested, and<br />
we knew we’d found the right man for<br />
the job. Tommy’s from a product design<br />
background, and he has carried the precithis<br />
month’s cover art<br />
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We met Tommy Pocket on Twitter some<br />
months ago, clicked through to examples<br />
of his work, and commissioned him to do<br />
a cover. All in a few minutes. That’s the<br />
way the world works now. “I’d only just<br />
moved to <strong>Brighton</strong> from Bristol,” says<br />
Tommy, real name Thomas Walker, “so<br />
it was a great opportunity for me.” What<br />
had caught our eye were his alternative<br />
movie posters and book covers for titles<br />
like American Psycho, Alien and The<br />
Shining, far more imaginative than the<br />
flash-bang-wallop originals. “These alternative<br />
designs have come on in leaps and<br />
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