PENGUIN STUDENT BOOK COVER AWARDS 2021
The 3 books to create covers for this brief was Talking Turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah for the Children’s book cover award, The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells for the Adult non-fiction book cover award, Life isn’t all HA HA HE HE by Meera Syal for the Adult fiction book cover award.
My responses for each of these book covers were vastly different from one another as they each have very different themes and demographics to appeal to. For Talking Turkeys I tried to create something more comical and cartoon like but with also a more retro hip hop esc kind of background to show the books themes. For The Uninhabitable Earth I wanted to create an almost Mobius style bleak cover to convey the nooks more serious themes. And finally for Life isn’t all HA HA HE HE I wanted to create something that could celebrate the cultural themes of the book but also the differences of the characters in the book.