Penguin book cover award

[kev67]

I have been looking through the finalists' entries for the Penguin book cover award, which were displayed on the Guardian website (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2013/jun/19/penguin-illustration). Students were invited to submit a book cover for Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep. The standard is very high. I think I like entries 1, 2, 4 and 8 the best, but I would have a hard task picking a favourite. If there was a public vote, though, I would probably vote for 9 because the student uploads videos on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NMv9mMVCzk) and, by coincidence, I had watched her video in which she said how thrilled she was that her cover had been shortlisted. It is maybe the most original cover.

[qimissung]

Those are great. It would be very hard to choose. I liked 6-10 the best, I think. I loved the retro look they achieved. I also liked 5, and there weren't any that I disliked. I think if I was going to choose one, it would be 6.

[Ecurb]

I'll vote for 6 as well, although it forgot: "Now a Major Motion Picture". I saw someone carrying a copy of Anna Karenina in an airport recently. The cover blared: "Now a Major Motion Picture starring Keira Knightly."

[mona amon]

Visually I liked 6 and 4 the best. I haven't read the book though.

LOL at the Anna Karenina cover. I've noticed how they try to sell classics like Wuthering Heights by giving them a bodice ripper style cover - Tall, dark, handsome man clasping to his bosom a girl in period costume showing a lot of her own bosom.

[kev67]

Number 7 by Hayley Warnham won (linky (http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/minisites/penguindesignaward/penguin_2013winners.php)). There was also a prize for the best children's book cover (link (http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/minisites/penguindesignaward/puffin_2013winners.php)). I don't like these quite so much, but I suppose my favourite would be the one by Kirsty Alexander.