brief in a day, Stratford Literary Festival

For a laugh (and also because I didn't realise the deadline was so close) I made an entry for the Stratford Literary Festival's competition to design their anthology book cover in a day.

The brief was fairly open, the theme just being "Sharing Stories". Considering the audience, I just wanted to make something simple (nothing too arty or wild). Later on it was brought to my attention that if I had added colour (digitally) to enhance the painting it would make it a little easier to read as an image. I'm also not keen on the texture of the paper still being visible but not consistent within the entire image, and am ashamed to yet again just do what is kind of a rip off of classic Penguin. I need a new, clean simple format that is my own. Regardless, I think the image is sensibly sweet. Some have described it as a little too weird or creepy eyes, but I did want an element of my usual visuals in there.

Still, I like the image in its basic sense, and might re-work it for something, or touch up this design so I can slide it into my portfolio.

This work did not place.