The judges say the winners were chosen due to their “original interpretation of the brief, a good understanding of the marketplace and their appeal to a contemporary readership”, alongside their “imaginative approaches”. The three winners each receive a work placement at the Penguin Random House UK’s design studio, and a £1,000 cash prize. It features Sephy, one of two main protagonists in the novel, all in black, set against a white background, with red used to highlight the title, and text formed out of the shape of the character’s dress. This design looks to reference scientific theories such as “colour shift, multiple dimensions and the expanding universe”, he says.įruzsina Czech, a graphic design and illustration student at Ulster University, won the children’s cover category for her self-professed “personal” take on Malorie Blackman’s classic Noughts & Crosses, a novel which highlights race issues in the modern day. Harry Woodgate, an illustration student at the University of Hertfordshire, won the adult non-fiction category for his colourful interpretation of A Brief History of Time, featuring a spectrum of colours and computer code-like typography with odd spacing. Raemarie Lee, a graphic design master’s student at Kingston University, won the adult fiction category for her stark, monochrome cover for Animal Farm, featuring a gradient of black to white, an all-caps, sans-serif typeface for the title and a minimal symbol of a pig’s snout, referencing the main character in the book. Penguin Random House UK has announced the winners of its Student Design Award 2018, which asks students to redesign the covers of seminal fiction and non-fiction books.Įntries fall under the three categories of adult fiction, adult non-fiction and children’s cover, with this year’s books being George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time and Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman.
By Sarah Dawood J7:01 pm J5:01 pm Left to right: by Raemarie Lee, Fruzsina Czech and Harry Woodgate
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