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Viva Brighton Issue #57 November 2017

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THIS MONTH’S COVER ARTIST<br />

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This month’s cover is by illustrator<br />

Neil Webb, whose dark, noirish<br />

work has the perfect look for our<br />

‘underground’ theme. “A lot of<br />

my stuff has that flavour because<br />

I’m really into early 20th century<br />

design,” he says.<br />

“I’m also interested in the print<br />

processes of that time. Lithography<br />

is one that I’m really drawn to:<br />

that’s actually quite a complicated<br />

process, but it’s still fairly limited<br />

in its application of what you can<br />

produce. And screen printing.<br />

The processes were much more<br />

primitive and had a sort of forced<br />

economy about them, so the images<br />

had to be simpler. Artists like Eric<br />

Ravilious used those processes, and<br />

even though my work doesn’t look<br />

much like his, the way he composes<br />

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