Book Cover Design Contest - December 2024

We are excited to announce our final open design contest of the year. This Book Cover brief is one of our most popular design briefs taken by our Pro Member Students, and we are happy to make it available to everyone.

How to enter?

  1. Read the design brief here  (also further down on this page)
  2. Submit your designs here before the 11th December
  3. Join our YouTube livestream on the 12th December to see the winners*
*We will be doing a live review on the design submissions and up to 3 winners will be announced live on our YouTube Channel at 2pm GMT on the 12th December 

Here is some more information about the contest:

The Brief:

Book Cover Design

  • Design the cover of a book titled My Vegan Kitchen
  • Design needs to include: Front Panel, Spine, Back Panel and optionally Front/Back Wraps
  • Illustrations, stock photography or generated images can be used for the book cover

Visual Style

Natural, organic and earthy tone 

Target Audience

Vegan eaters aged 16+ years olds who want to cook healthy food on a budget.

Deliverables:

You can submit up to 3 entries (details of how to submit included below.) An entry must include a refined design submitted as a PDF, JPG or PNG. 

Deadline:

11th December (Wednesday)

Click here to access the Milanote board for some useful references to kick start your creative ideas


The Prizes

1st Place

  • Being featured on our YouTube channel and on our website.

2nd Place 

3rd Place

  • Being featured on our YouTube channel and on our website.

Contest sponsored by:

Milanote is an easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards. Our entire team at Yes I'm a Designer have been using Milanote to organize all of our projects since 2020.

This Contest is now closed

** Winners announced **


Thank you all for taking part in our Book Cover Design Contest , We have had so many awesome submissions (over 50+ designs). If you have missed our review , you can rewatch it here

A huge congratulations goes out to our winners Scott James, Marta Laurincova and Tracy Kistler!

Find out more about all our
past Open Design Contests here!


Disclaimer : 

*During the live review, all participants receive general feedback on how to improve their work. Due to time restraints we may not be able to give individual attention to all submissions

Creatives participating in this contest retain full ownership of their work. The purpose of this contest is to help you become more creative and add some new work to your portfolio.

About the author 

Shumi Perhiniak

Shumi is a self-taught graphic designer and Photoshop expert, currently the Marketing Director at Yes I'm a Designer, where she writes and designs marketing materials with a focus on design, creativity, and visual communication.
She brings over 10 years of industry experience, having worked in-house as a designer for brands including Toni&Guy, Renaissance Learning, and JWT Hotels.
She also ran a stationery shop in the UK for three years, selling her own art prints and paper goods, blending her passion for design, business, and creativity.

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