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 9th 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:

9th December (Monday)

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.

Submitting your Work

  1. You can submit up to 3 final logo designs.
  2. We love to see sketches of your initial ideas and mock-ups featuring your chosen designs.
  3. Please upload your submissions as PDF, JPG or PNG (max 10 Mbytes).   

Winners will be announced
live on our YouTube Channel

We will do a live review of the design submissions
and reveal the winners.
We can't wait to your awesome designs.

Subscribe to our channel to be notified  

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

Please also feel free to upload your design either on Instagram or Facebook - simple tag us or use hashtag #yesimadesignercontest @yes_im_a_designer and we will love to share your design on our platforms. 


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 illustrator who has worked for Toni&Guy, Renaissance Learning, Baker Ross, and many others.

Additionally, she owned a brick-and-mortar stationery shop selling her art prints and now sells wholesale to retailers and online shops under the brand name www.herdesignworld.com.

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