Viva Brighton Issue #69 November 2018

REBECCA CUNNINGHAM
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by Olivia Waller (#52). “I’ve
realised I like covers with people
in them,” she adds.
And so this image is peopled with
a variety of characters, stylised
from photographs Rebecca has
found on the internet. The girl,
hand-in-hand with her date, is
based on her; the projectionist is
from her own photo of the Duke
of York’s 35mm projectionist,
Jimmy, who she interviewed for
Viva a while ago.
We love it, of course, and we’re
delighted to say we’ll see it again:
Rebecca has promised to take the
issue with her and send us back
a pic for our Spread the Word
section in the December issue.
Bon voyage! Alex Leith
20s-looking font she found in a photo on the internet.
“I’ve added some shine, and roughed up the edges, and
added some skew, because the picture isn’t straight on,”
she says.
The colour scheme might look familiar, too. “It’s funny,
when I think back to my favourite Viva covers, a lot
of them have had yellow (or orange) and blue as the
prominent tones,” she says. In particular, she cites the
hipster on the seafront one, by Tommy Pocket (#28),
and the characters sliding down a printing press one,
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