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DF Book Cover Competition

Posted 30 Jul 2009 - 3 Gratefully received comments

Design Forums have carried on from the success of their first competition by launching a new one! This time the challenge is to come up with a book cover design.

The Brief:
To design a book jacket cover for one of the selection:

1. Animal Farm by George Orwell
2. To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
4. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
5. The Iron Man by Ted Hughes

The publisher (Penguin) is keen to give the title a new lease of life with a striking. modern design to appeal to a new audience.

Entries: Covers can be typography, image manipulation, illustration, photography. The style is your choice. You can enter as many times and as many book covers as you like. Please try and place your cover entry onto the supplies book pix.

Rationale: A brief rationale to your design is required to explain the entry, no more than 60 words max.

Entry Format & Size: All entries must be 1500px x 900px, consisting of 670×900 for back cover and 670×900 for front cover then 160×900 for the spine (view the book template). In addition to the concept if you can supply an image manipulation of the design on the book image this would be preferred.

Mandatories: The Penguin logo must be on the front cover, along with the book title and author’s name.

Deadline: Friday 7th August, 5.00pm

Submissions: Like the last contest, entry is free to post and subject to members comments etc.

Final Entries: will be posted on a specific entry thread towards the last week of closing deadlines.

Prizes & Judging: Elliot Jay Stocks will be judging this contest! You can find out more about Elliot and his work at: Elliot Jay Stocks

Also excited to announce that there will be a prize fund for this contest, the total prize fund is £200. There will be a £125 prize for the winner, £50 for second place and £25 for third place.

Head over to Design Forums to size up the competition and get scribbling!

Here is my entry:

I’m a sucker for beautiful book covers, I’ve lost count of how many books I’ve bought because of the cover and never read. That was my aim for this cover, to make the book a beautiful object. I’ve always wanted to work in this sort of style too, and it compliments the subject matter perfectly. Animal Farm is an important book, so I hope this cover would make someone pick it up that had never thought of reading it before.

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