ILLU6040 - Penguin Cover Design Award 2022

Brief

---

Create (at least) two book jacket submissions for the Penguin Cover Design competition.
The three books featured as subjects for the competition are:

• Adult Non-Fiction Category: Diary Of A Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty​
• Adult Fiction Category: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
• Children's Category: Murder Most Unladylike by Robin Stevens

Formatting templates are provided to fulfil the competition's submission requirements.
The required text to be present on each book jacket is also provided.

The Books

---

Diary Of A Young Naturalist
Dara McAnulty

---

Cover Copy

Themes

• Nature - Northern Ireland
• The Euphoric Ecstasy Of The Natural World
• The dichotomy of Chaos & Serenity
• Loss
• Mental health
• Conscientious perception

Girl, Woman, Other
Bernadine Evaristo

---

Cover Copy

Themes

• Alienation
• Identity
• Culture 
• Universal experience - Discrimination & Victimhood

Murder Most Unladylike
Robin Stevens

---

Cover Copy

This book's jacket requires an additional piece of design: a series logo to feature on its cover & spine.

Themes

• Mystery
• Friendship
• School - Setting, & Aesthetic
• Secrecy
• Authority - Convincing & Subverting

Research & Inspiration

---

Nature In Northern Ireland

---

1930s School & Gym Aesthetic

---

Spooky Visual Style For Children - The Locations Of Scooby Doo

---

Old Book Cover Designs

---

Sketches

---

Quick template-accurate sketches to get a better understanding of how much type there is to deal with within each book jacket's design on a visual level.

Diary Of A Young Naturalist Development

---

Sketch on template, showing the rough layout of the text elements, relative to the illustration so that they do not clash heavily in the final outcome.

Back Cover Development

---

Front Cover Development

---

Murder Most Unladylike Development

---