Book Cover Design
 The cover incorporates aspects of what might be included in a starter kit for how to be a woman. |  |  Caitlin Moran says there is no actual guide for how to be a woman, but if there was the instructions would probably be in Chinese. I decided to take a queue from this and design a starter kit. The instructions are a passage from the book translated into Chinese. |  This design is based on the description Caitlin Moran gave of her 12th birthday. |
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 The idea for this concept came from a passage in the book where Caitlin Moran describes using sanitary towels as beds for her Sindy dolls. |
Tools used:
Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom, Lighting and Photography
Entry for Penguin Random House UK's student design awards 2016.
Creation of a book cover for Caitlin Moran’s book “How to be a Woman” along with an explicit, and an implicit poster.
I would normally have avoided this kind of brief, but I decided to push myself to find out if I could design something from a female perspective.
Although not all of the examples shown are finished, they have been included to show the range of ideas that can come from reading a text and trying to interpret it into explicit or implicit messages.
There were some solid ideas in this project that used a mixture of digital and physical techniques, and scope to expand upon some of the elements more, such as using a 3D printer to physically make the model sprue, or setting up a more sophisticated beach scene.