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