Random House and Creative Review invite designers, creatives and doodlers alike to submit their own designs for the book jacket. You can vote on your favourites, and the winning design will be printed on the UK edition of Crowdsourcing.
Shortlisted entrants will be taken forward to a panel vote to decide the final jacket. The panel consisting of Jeff Howe (author of Crowdsourcing and WIRED Editor), Richard Ogle (Random House Art Director) Patrick Burgoyne (Creative Review Editor) and Angus Hyland (Pentagram Partner)
The winning entrant will be presented with a signed first edition of the title and framed artwork along with a cash prize of £500.
Not long to go! Entries must be in by midnight GMT 10th February 2008
Find out more here.
I don' wanna spoil it: But 500 pounds for having lots of different rfp's for a cover sounds like a good deal to me -- for Random House. Also relieves from the strains of hiring a/just one designer...
Posted by: Jan | 09 January 2008 at 05:25 PM
Hi Jan,
A very valid point and I'm not surprised someone has brought this up. In this particular case, the competition idea fits with the concept behind the book and I can't imagine how the organisers could invite entries "from the crowd" with some kind of fee structure in place.
For me personally, entering is fun and I like the element of competition, I don't really care about the money. I'm not a book cover designer so I don't even know how 500 pounds relates to the average fee for such things.
But thanks for expressing what others will be thinking.
Posted by: Richard | 09 January 2008 at 06:09 PM
looks like you're running away with the popular vote anyway :)
Posted by: Keir | 10 January 2008 at 03:06 AM
Competitions are bad for design. Entering them hurts us all.
http://www.no-spec.com/
Posted by: Cameron | 11 January 2008 at 07:48 PM