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Penguin Cover Design Award

Dara McAnulty's Diary of A Young Naturalist

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This cover aims toward the older end of the audience for this book. It implements a contrast of barbed wire with monoprint bird illustrations. The thought behind this was to have a handmade effect that was punk-inspired, like the author's favourite music. Which also reflects how honest and unfiltered this diary is. I kept some of my fingerprints on the design from the monoprint textures, as if the author has made it by hand.

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The marketing for this book is implemented on social media using Penguins' preexisting layout throughout. To reflect the naturalist values of Dara, it has a guide to creating recycled birdhouses on the underside of the dust jacket.

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