Penguin Awards: Animal Farm

  • Charlet Husthwaite
Penguin Student Design Award 2017: Adult Fiction Cover Award - George Orwell's Animal Farm
​The judges were looking for a striking, well executed design with an imaginative concept for the market. My design style includes mainly collage techniques and this element was explored further through the Penguin brief. I feel that I can always express my concept ideas best through the use of collaging, and created cover designs different to any other submitted for Animal Farm cover competition. 
​Instead of including imagery of the animals mentioned within the book, I decided to use animal skin and hair in contrast to some of the most influential Russian leaders during the Russian Revolution. I also experimented with hand-written type, with pigs trotters being the inspiration. A series of cover designs were created by the final chosen cover for submission is the top desig

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