• £170

• 29 designs

• 10 designers

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Book Cover Design Brief

Looking for cover for teen fantasy adventure. This is a dark and mysterious fantasy series. Two books are already published but the covers needs re-imagining. The series follows teen WWII evacuees as they discover new worlds behind a corridor of mysterious doors. The winning designer will be asked to design two further books in the series and the design will need to be cohesive across the series, following current trends and age appropriate (i.e. not too young and cartoony but not as mature as YA) and clearly convey the genre. Designer can choose to create characters (main four characters are two girls (a plain brunette and a lovely blond) and two boys (bookish with light brown hair and a very handsome black boy). The brown haired girl and the bookish boy are the central characters. Or, designer can be more conceptual with silhouettes or other directions but the age must be clear (they are 13). They are also in 1940 so clothes should be relevant). The typography should feel integrated and not tacked on. Examples below.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40864855-the-miraculous
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35603805-nightbooks
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22733616-neverseen
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29152019-the-adventurers-guild
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9917879-the-unwanteds
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27272698-lodestar
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42686649-archimancy
Existing covers attached. They were found to be too old-fashioned, too dark and too unclear as to target age.

Target Market(s)

Middle grade readers ages 10-12

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Font styles to use

Other font styles liked:

• cover dependent but not cartoony, or outlined or overtly childrens'

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Look and feel

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Requirements

Must have

• A feeling of adventure and mystery (it's a multi-universe fantasy with magical elements), be clear as to target age group, a view toward series cohesion. Work well at thumbnail size.

Nice to have

• Typography that is integrated into the cover art creatively

Should not have

• Cartoony figures. Too young characters.

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