Penguin book cover competition

Please include four 4 copies including four 4 cover letters of each essay submitted. Penguin a clockwork orange book cover competition on behance. May 30, 2017 weve recently had the results for the penguin book competition and i didnt get shortlisted so now i feel i can blog about my work. Edited by penguin creative director paul buckley, classic penguin. It has won numerous awards including the guardian childrens fiction award. The challenge with this brief was to reflect the books status as one of the great modern political allegories and bring the story to a new generation of readers.

The competition is open to anyone studying on a further education or higher education course part time or full time in any subject and at any level at the time of the deadline for entries tuesday 3 march 2020 at 2. The official home of penguin books usa, publishers of bestselling fiction, nonfiction, classics, and childrens books. May 29, 20 one of the most exciting aspects of any book s publication is the design of its cover. I sat and watched a large pig asleep for half an hour waiting for it to wake and give me a chance to capture some photographs. Crazy beautiful book covers the fundamental rule of all readers is to never judge a book by its cover, but ilhether we spot a gorgeous book in someones hands or displayed in a bookstore, the cover. The competition asked for designers to come up with and create a book cover for the story a clockwork orange which is written by anthony burgess. Our award winners are highlighted below, along with a spotlight interview with ten speed press senior director, artdesign, betsy stromberg. I have always loved learning about physics and space, infact i dislike most other sciences, but have always felt a sense of awe and wonder when learning about the universe perhaps this is because ive spent my life in london and so my only real life knowledge of it is the 610. Created by edward young, a 21 year old office junior at the time, the covers are a cherished part of britains design heritage. The book is about various family generations over time, living in solitude in a basic village of moncondo. Penguins annual competition invites student designers to reimagine iconic book covers. Wonder penguin competition each year, penguin opens their student design award competition, which provides participants with an experience of dealing with real cover design briefs firsthand. It was cofounded in 1935 by sir allen lane with his brothers richard and john, as a line of the publishers the bodley head, only becoming a separate company the following year.

For this design, i decided to create a forced connection between the two main topics of the book. It is also very important to be aware of the writers target audience. Open exclusively for students, it provides a chance for them to win a work. The pelican shakespeare series series cover design won gold medal from society of illustrators. She was instrumental in setting up the penguin design award in 2007 as a legacy of the companys 70 th anniversary. Penguin reveals winners of its student design award 2018. I love typography and wanted to keep the cover relatively simple so it didnt take too. For more than seventy years, penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the englishspeaking world, providing readers with a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. The competition is not open to graphic design professionals. Joanna prior managing director, penguin general books joanna has had a guiding hand on penguin s design for many years. The winner of each category will be invited to spend four weeks in the penguin random house design studios on a work placement, working on live briefs. Penguin classics, client cannery row top and the moon is down bottom, are two of approximately twentysix cover illustrations commissioned by penguin classics, for their entire catalog of john steinbeck books. See more ideas about penguin books, penguins and books.

Id previously read this book and was completely blown away by it, being left with a feeling of dread, frustration. We are looking for a striking cover design that is well executed, has an imaginative concept and clearly places the book for its market. Feb, 2017 this competition is to illustrate a book cover for 3 chosen books. Please include the front cover only on the first page of your pdf and a full cover spread front, spine and back cover on the second page of your pdf supplied as one document as illustrated in this example. Penguin randomhouse book cover competition jo visual. In the childrens book section this year, students were asked to design a new cover for emil and the detectives to bring this classic to a new generation of readers. Penguin uk has relaunched the covers of six of its favourite british novels with designs by some of the worlds leading tattoo artists. Book cover design entry george orwells fiction novel animal farm for penguin competition. The first generation search through the jungle to find the ocean. This years aiga design 50 books 50 covers competition, widely recognized as the highest design honor in the book publishing world, features five prizewinning designs created by penguin random house art directors and designers. Waldia received a gold medal from the society of illustrators for.

Book gifts and experiences to inspire and delight book lovers and those in search of the perfect present. May 03, 2018 penguin book competition we were given the opportunity to enter the student design awards 2018 competition to create a book cover for any of the three chosen books animal farm, a brief history of time or noughts and crosses. How penguin classics books became design icons books the. From the three possible book categories i chose childrens, the selected book. The secret diary of adrian mole aged 34 by sue townsend. In her role as marketing and publicity director of penguin uk until july 2009 she helped to position penguin s books for the marketplace through their cover design and standout marketing campaigns. To create a book cover using the template provided for the penguin book cover competition. The penguin random house student design award is an opportunity for students interested in pursuing a career in design to experience real book cover design briefs firsthand. Apr 20, 2011 one hundred years of solitude was the book cover title for the 2011 penguin book cover competition. Penguin competition 2020 sketchbook rj baker youtube. While all elements of the cover front, back and spine need to work together, remember that the front cover has to be able to work on its own, and to be eyecatching within a crowded bookshop setting as. Each year, penguin opens their student design award competition, which provides participants with an experience of dealing with real cover design briefs firsthand.

Jan 19, 2018 after reading the penguin brief the book which excited me most was stephen hawkings, a brieh history of time. Feb 18, 2018 penguin book cover design competition this one week brief requires us to choose between two books and design a front back and spine of these novels in order to be entered into the penguin custom house book competition. The concept is exploring the themes and motives that the story unfolds onto the book cover with the spiral illustration reflecting the themes of relationships and friendships. Animal farm book cover design entry george orwells fiction novel animal farm for penguin competition. Penguin classics essay contest read the winning essays from previous years.

How penguin classics books became design icons books. In a highly competitive market, penguin continues to evolve their cover designs to keep pace with other publishers. Rymers massive serialized novel, varney the vampyre. I decided on psychoanalysis as there are major themes of mental illnesses running throughout the novel i chose. Penguin press is dedicated to publishing literary nonfiction and select fiction and has a distinguished roster of authors including, among others, thomas pynchon, michael pollan, niall ferguson, zadie smith, henry kissinger, and alan greenspan. Whilst its fiction designs rarely have any unity, art director john hamilton ensures that only the best contemporary designers create the covers. Information about penguin book cover design award winner, at the university of central lancashire. Classic book covers get tattooed for penguin ink project. May 20, 2020 ray baker sketchbook for external illustration project penguin childrens book cover. Penguin book competition project shay melia illustration. Crazy beautiful book covers the fundamental rule of all readers is to never judge a book by its cover, but ilhether we spot a gorgeous book in someones hands or displayed in a bookstore, the cover piques our curiosity. Nov 07, 2017 penguin book competition project for this project we are tasked with designing a book cover for the penguin random house student design award. Student wins penguin book design award norwich university of the. Entries must be mailed to penguin publishing group, academic marketing department, penguin classics student scholarship essay contest, 1745 broadway, new york, ny 10019.

Cover to cover delivers 288 pages of literary eye candy. Your guide to bestselling fiction, nonfiction, childrens books and penguin classics. This project was for the annual penguin student competition of 2019 and my submission was for the fiction category, which was norwegian wood by murakami. On an as needed basis, the junior designerdesigner will attend photo shoots for book covers. Both bibliophiles and design buffs will be enthralled by the book, which features hundreds of stunning covers paired with commentary by the artists. Make sure to use the design template and cover copy supplied for each category brief. A student of ba hons illustration at norwich university of the arts nua has been announced as the winner of a national design award by penguin random. Animal farm penguin book cover competition my entry to penguin student design award for animal farm. The competition is open to anyone studying on a further education or higher education course part time or full time in any subject and at any level at the time of the. Penguin student design award 2019 book cover design. But i think that norwegian wood is a story that appeals to everyone, but i would like to aim my design towards people my age 1825 years because that is the age of the characters and it is a. Penguin random house illustration prize 2017 paige garland.

The new penguin shakespeare covers paul hogarththis series had a new text from original sources. Apr 17, 2019 in my senior design class, i entered the book cover competition hosted by penguin random house publishing. Chapter books, middle grade or novels for young adults no picture books or books for children unable to read for themselves submit first 5,000 words and a synopsis judged by a top literary agent previous winners have gone on to land a. The cover should encourage children to pick the book up and buy it for themselves and should also engage adults to want to buy it for them.

Apr 22, 2016 the penguin book cover design competition attracts thousands of entries from students worldwide. Oct 28, 2006 penguin has since introduced other designled classic collections, including a second series of great ideas and the pocket penguin essays and novellas with each cover created by a different artist. Jul 16, 2008 the winner will be selected by penguin editors, creative director paul buckley and the editors of creativity and will become the official cover of the book, to be published in 2009. Penguin books student design award gave the brief of constructing the book cover to 3 books, one of which was the establishment and how they get away with it by owen jones. Animal farm penguin book cover competition on behance. Penguin book cover design award winner case study university. This book is now old first published in 1987, but is an excellent anthology of vampire stories from the early classics to the early 1980s.

The penguin random house student design award is one of the most prestigious book cover design competitions in the uk. Animal farm by george orwell my design for the penguin books student brief competition 2018. Inspiration for this design came from a visit to a local farm for research on this project. Over the summer i read about computer arts magazine cover competition. Out of three books, i chose adult nonfiction book, a brief history of time by stephen hawking. Penguin paper size and other dimensions in the books series, metric and imperial. From the three possible book categories i chose childrens, the selected book being wonder by r. Penguin book cover design competition callum lee graphics.

Id previously read this book and was completely blown away by it, being left with a feeling of dread, frustration, disbelief, fear and anger. More time to enter penguin and creativitys book cover contest. For this project i wanted to pick something that i could take inspiration from and use it within the competition brief. This years 50 books 50 covers competition, widely recognized as the highest design honor in the book publishing world, features 4 interior and cover prizewinning designs created by our penguin random house art directors and designers in 2016. Examples of fonts in use tagged with penguin books.

Included are seminal stories such as polidoris the vampyre, and lefanus carmilla as well as an excerpt from j. While all elements of the cover front, back and spine need to work together, remember that the front cover has to be able to work on its own, and to be eyecatching within a crowded bookshop setting as well as on screen at a reduced size for digital retailers. A simple, free resource for finding the international standards for paper sizes mm. And, to be shortlisted is a real recognition of talent and skill. Penguin books art prints since its first appearance in 1935, the original penguin books triband, colourcoded cover, has become one of the most recognisable designs in the world. After doing the penguin book cover competition last year, i didnt really think about the print finishes. A portrait of the artist as a young man by james joyce cover design won silver medal from society of. Personalised penguin classic book cover print perfect for a wedding gift, new baby, or, fun art for the family home. Penguin classics essay contest penguin random house. The penguin book of hell penguin classics by scott g.

Feb 25, 2019 a book cover is important because people want a book to look good in their hands. Pbc penguin book cover competition a brief history of. Though many voices participate in this creative process, its the designers expertise that is most critical. The story chosen for this brief is noughts and crosses by author malorie blackman. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks, sold through woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence, bringing highquality. I tried my first design to begin, which was meant to be expressive type.