What a Carve Up! Book Cover Design
First year project Book Cover Design Penguin book 'What a Carve Up!' by Jonathan Coe
Brief
Design a book cover for the novel 'What a Carve Up!' by Jonathan Coe
Concept/Solution
The novel focuses on the various figures in the Winshaw family: the lazy, hypocritical, populist tabloid newspaper columnist Hilary, the ambitious and ruthless career politician Henry, the brutal chicken and pork farmer Dorothy, the predatory art-gallery owner and art dealer Roderick (Roddy), the investment banker Thomas, and the arms dealer Mark. In each of these sections the novel depicts the way in which actions by individuals from the same family, serving their own greedy interests, have distressing and far-reaching consequences.
I based the illustration around the feature of the crow in the novel, which is of great significance throughout the story as it represents the continuous theme of the deaths of the Winshaw family. Within the crow I have illustrated objects relating to each member of the family and their greedy interests that have resulted in these distressing and far-reaching consequences.
The typography and illustration style chosen for the book illustrates the concept of the storyline being 'carved up'.
