How Stanley Chow's digital portrait of Andy Burnham became an iconic political image
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Morwenna Ferrier
Summary
Illustrator Stanley Chow describes how he created the now-ubiquitous image of Andy Burnham after the mayor's rousing speech outside Manchester Central Library in October 2020. At his wife's suggestion, Chow used Adobe Illustrator to draw Burnham, and the image quickly became a visual shorthand for the politician's anti-establishment sentiment. The article explores how a simple digital illustration captured a moment and became an iconic representation of the mayor.
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· 3 pulledIt was the pandemic and we were all so down in the dumps at that point.
He was already a good mayor, but at that point we all thought: 'Oh shit, he's really good.'
I put it on Twitter an
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