This project was a competition set by Penguin. There were two categories, the Adult Book Prize and the Children's Book Prize, which required you to redesign books covers set for each category. For the brief, we were required to create book designs for both the categories.
The adult book was 'One Hundred Years of Solitude,' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, this is the cover I created:
I came to the conclusion of how this cover would look quite quickly. From my research, I was inspired by spanish artwork, and so I looked for typefaces that would reflect this style on the cover. Once I had found a hand drawn typeface, I created a Lino which is the front cover. I did go on to experiment with stencils, but returned to the original Lino. The back cover took slightly longer to resolve, at first I made lots of little Lino's to place around the text, and then went on to create one large Lino.
This was personally my favourite piece of work that I created this year during my last year of university.
The book for the Childrens Book Prize was 'James and the Giant Peach,' by Roald Dahl. This is the final cover:
When I re-read this book for the project, the idea of creating something visual to represent the part of the story where James crawls through the peach until he comes across the insects, appealed most to me. I had to experiment quite a lot with the visual style before coming to a conclusion, as I was trying to discover one that would suit the image of James in a tunnel, though in the end, the final cover doesn't include James.
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