Conner Davies
Animal Farm Book Cover
The book cover I designed for the book Animal Farm by George Orwell and entered into the 2018 Penguin Books Cover Competition.
After reading the book it was clear that I wanted to include the pigs on the front cover, after all, they are the main character. The cover design I submitted is the one above. It was based off a photo shoot that I did use a pig trotter that I bought. It has quite an eerie 1984 vibe by having the single pig on the front cover with its big white eyes staring directly at you.
The book cover above was based on a college that I created using old Grocer magazines from the 1950s. I created my own magazine called “Animal Farm” and I created my own fake magazine using body copy that I wrote that is full of in-jokes relating the book.
The book cover above is halfpig skin and half human skin. The human skin is on the left and pigskin of the right, with a gradient fade in the middle of the two to show the pigs transforming into humans, like they do in the book.