Responsive: Penguin Book Finals

These are my finals that I have submitted for the Penguin Random House Design Awards. 

FINAL THOUGHTS 

ON CAITLIN MORAN: 

This was the book cover that I had no trouble coming up with ideas and concepts for but am least pleased with the final outcome. I'm think it's the lack of texture in the piece that has left it feeling too "digital". Even though I did scan in and go over the ink pieces and figure outline, there is something that got lost in the transition from analogue to digital. If I were to do this one again I think i'd spend more time on the font, I did like what I came up with but I don't think it suits certain parts of the book cover (her name should be clearer.. neater). I would definitely research more into how to texture backgrounds or perhaps half tone bits. I feel like that has really let me down on this book cover particularly. 

 ON EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES 

This was the cover I invested the most time in. I really wanted each element to be playful and engaging so children would want to pick it up. I chose orange and blue because many of the book covers for Emil were yellow and I wanted to step away from that. In contrast to the Caitlin Moran book cover, I think the inked drawings for Emil's cover really came through well onto photoshop and when I went over them they didn't loose any of their intent. If I had to do this again I think I would spend a little more time developing the type because that was something that was lost on this. Although I think the written "emil" works well, the rest of the text looks a little too sensible for kids to pick up. I would have also spent more time on the back trying to get the subsidiaries more eye-catching (my fault for not realising we had to add these in, these were rushed in last minute).

ON CLOCKWORK ORANGE 

This was the cover I was least interested in making at first but surprisingly is my favourite out of the three that I produced. I've never watched the movie or read the book so had to read the spark notes for this. After a few attempts I just found it really hard to step away from the cliche of using orange and oranges on the front cover. I really wanted to not be that person but in the end I gave in. I used textures and used a hand written type for this book cover and I thi k the reason it works so well is because its so cohesive as a whole. I was also super proud with my hand drawings on this one.