OUGD503 - Studio brief 01 - Smaller/quicker brief

As a part of the brief I have to select a smaller brief such as Secret 7, Penguin book cover design or Feathr. These briefs will help me demonstrate my ability to develop effective responses within professionally realistic deadlines. Early on in the brief I've highlighted Penguin book cover design award as one smaller brief I'd like to undertake, the Penguin Random House Student Design Award is an opportunity for students interested in pursuing a career in design to experience real cover design briefs first-hand. 

Important details and dates about the brief:

1. Deadline for entries

Entries will be accepted through the website between 00:01 (GMT) on Wednesday, 18 January 2017 and 12:00 (GMT) on Tuesday, 7 March 2017.

2. Eligibility

To be eligible for the 2017 competition, you must be a student on a Further Education or Higher Education course (part time or full time) in any subject and at any level. Entrants must be aged 18 or over by 1 July 2017. The competition is open to amateur designers not currently or previously employed in the graphic design field.

Entrants must be eligible to work in the UK. We regret that Penguin Random House UK is unable to provide a certificate of sponsorship should a work visa be required in order to take up the first prize work placement.

Advise entrants that ideally they should have a reasonable standard of English so that, if they win the first prize, they are able to get the most out of their work placement.

There can be only one named entrant per entry.

3. Designs

Entrants may submit one design into each of the following categories: (i) the Adult Fiction Cover Award; (ii) the Adult Non-Fiction Cover Award; (iii) the Children’s Cover Award. You may not submit more than one design for each category.

4. Submissions

All entries must be supplied digitally via the link which will be available on this site from Wednesday, 18 January 2017. Entries submitted in any other way, including by email or hard copy, will not be accepted.

Entries must be supplied as a high-resolution PDF, 300 dpi, CMYK.