Today I finally posted off my entries to the Penguin Adult Prize and Puffin Children’s Prize and what a relief it was. I spent the majority of yesterday running around Garthdee getting things photocopied, printed and bound but it seems to have been worth it considering I’m still rather pleased with my final covers, as well as my submission boards.

I have even submitted a wee snippet from my Perfume cover to represent my work in the Gray’s School Of Art Degree Show Booklet.

I couldn’t find the right image from my Irvine Welsh project at the time so thought I’d go for a cropped photograph of my award entry, and I’m rather pleased with the results. It’s not giving too much away but, then again, that might not be a great thing.

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After the 2009 D&AD Student Awards last week the full Online Annual is now live. Until now only the entries nominated for an award were on the site. My entry was given “In-Book” status meaning it didn’t go up till after the ceremony.

You can see my entry by clicking right here.

Any comments or feedback you want to leave would be greatly appreciated and I strongly recommend you browse around the other work on the site, some of it is amazing. Having my work placed alongside it is a fair old compliment.

I also used the image for another mini project which I’ll hopefully get online before too long.

Last week I got some wonderful news. My entry to the D&AD Student Awards 2009 was a success!

My entry is set to be included on the Winner’s site, which, apparantly puts my piece in the top 10% of entries! This year is the first year the company is not publishing the D&AD Student Awards Annual though, with the new online annual replacing it. As nice as it would have been to have the physical book with my work in it, the site is much more accessible and can be viewed by a fair few more people than the book with a limited print run. More information on the new online annual is available here.

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