Wednesday 24 September 2014

Teenager designs cover for Pink Floyd's new album, 'The Endless River'

Few would have predicted that an 18-year-old Egyptian, who wasn't even born the last time Pink Floyd released an album, would become the cover designer of the British band's latest album "The Endless River".
However, Ahmed Emad Eldin was plucked from obscurity when a creative agency working for the band saw his design portfolio on Behance, an online notice board for creative professionals.

Born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Eldin is a self-taught digital artist, who says he used the internet as a tutor to hone his skills. The offer to create the images for the band, he says, was "a total surprise."

Featuring a lone figure punting a boat across a sea of clouds, Eldin says the image was created while he was "thinking about life and nature."

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