Penguin Design Awards 2012 Entry: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The brief this year was to create a cover design for Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (which is probably more famous for the Jack Nicholson film adaptation). I tried to make the title of the book the main focus of my design as people are probably more familiar with the novel than with Ken Kesey the author.
The text is meant to resemble a stamp, and the images in the background are based on Rorschach tests, but I tried to make them more obviously resemble faces than just blobs.

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UPDATED - Penguin Design Award: One Hundred Years of Solitude Book Cover

This is the final design for One Hundred Years of Solitude, submitted for the Penguin Design Award. I tinkered around with the background a bit, and added some enlarged elements from the pattern.

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Penguin Design Award: One Hundred Years of Solitude Book Cover

*Please see updated bookcover design here*

This is my current design for the Penguin Design Award for Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. I picked up on the idea of the Golden Fish as a motif in the story. The background is done in watercolour, taking inspiration from portugese painted tiles.

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