50 Watts (formerly A Journey Around My Skull) followed its 2009 Evil Orchid Bookplate Contest with a contest to design a Polish book cover. The results were announced a few hours ago, the winner being the above design by Ben Jones who happens to be from Manchester. The rest of the entries can be seen in this Flickr set. I’m astonished at the variety on display, and also the success of the majority of these pieces as both cover designs and pastiches of an idiosyncratic style. Nice to see so many people using non-digital techniques, Ben Jones included, and there’s an additional pleasure with this challenge in seeing the titles people have chosen to illustrate. Congrats to Will on an inspiring contest.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The book covers archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The Evil Orchid Bookplate Contest
• Polish posters: Freedom on the Fence
• The Robing of The Birds
• Franciszek Starowieyski, 1930–2009
• Czech film posters
• Czech book covers