The Seth Print (Hope you like Purple!)

[Me hol­ding it etc.]

[Close-up of the cow]

[My sig­na­ture at the bottom.]

[Extreme close-up.]

[Seth’s sig­na­ture]

[Me and Seth sig­ning the prints, July, 2009.]

PURPLE COW

[Visit the gallery here to purchase the print and/or view other prints from the gaping­void “Seth Godin” series etc.]

This is my most ambi­tious print pro­ject to date, The “Pur­ple Cow” edi­tion. [Click here to see the backs­tory, click here to see the ori­gi­nal 2009 promo etc.]

The book that first tur­ned me on to Seth Godin’s work was, no sur­prise, “Pur­ple Cow”.

It was a big Ah-Ha! moment for me. This enor­mous fee­ling of “Yes! Finally! This is the kind of space I want my career to live in!” That fee­ling, FINALLY arti­cu­la­ted, after years in the career-hell desert. It was very liberating.

And so one day I deci­ded to pay tri­bute to that fee­ling, by crea­ting a hand-drawn Pur­ple Cow print.

I figu­red, there’s got to be peo­ple out there who were as affec­ted by that book as I was, so why not create something to cele­brate that? It’s a very ico­nic book among my friends, so why not make an actual icon out of it? It was a no-brainer, really.

Basi­cally, it’s the cover of the book, all drawn by hand, with my all-over squiggly style. It’s the lar­gest print I’ve ever done, and it’s pretty intense.  It also came with Seth Godin’s bles­sing (Thanks, Seth!)- it goes without saying, I wouldn’t have gone ahead without that.

One more thing: Of all the prints I’ve done, it’s the har­dest one to cap­ture via pho­to­graphy; pos­ting on the Inter­net really doesn’t give it jus­tice. That’s OK, that’s kinda what keeps it spe­cial, too.

Hope you like pur­ple

UPDATE: Seth left a kind com­ment below: “There’s one on the wall of my office. It’s even coo­ler than Hugh says it is.” Thanks, Seth!

[Visit the gallery here to purchase the print and/or view other prints from the gaping­void “Seth Godin” series etc.]