That’s me away to finally start my Honours Project. I finished my two entries to this year’s Penguin Design Award this week and it’s time to move on. I’d like to get my covers for Perfume and Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland online eventually but I’d be foolish to post them up before the competition’s closing date so they’re going to stay locked in my deskside drawer for the next couple of months. Not really locked to be honest, I doubt anyone is that bothered.

I’ve also taken down the Portfolio section of the site for now, leaving just this here blog. I wasn’t too happy with the old design/layout/navigation but I don’t have time to russle up something else at the moment. It’ll probably be Degree Show time before I get something else up. Earlier would be nice but I’m not holding my breath.

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Hello. I just had my proposal signed off by the tutors and it’s quite the load off my mind. Now I really have no excuse not to power on with my research. I said I’d post it online once I was done and, for anyone who might be vaguely interested, you can see it by clicking here.

Now I have some books to read, must be off.

So now that fourth year is upon us, I have been working on my proposal for the coming year. It’s been a bit stressful but I’m getting there. The final draft isn’t finished yet but I do plan on posting it up here when I’m done (because once it’s online, for all to see, there is no going back).

Along with with writing this proposal I have been looking for some potentially very useful books for my research, although without much luck. This is the part when what you are reading turns from blog post to cry for help. Of the fourteen books I unearthed I only have access to five, which is not a particularly great ratio. If anyone reading this could help me out it would be wonderful, whether you lend me a copy or buy it as a present, either way I’m good. Click on titles and it’ll take you to Amazon, how convenient.

Seven Hundred Penguins
Faber & Faber: Eighty Years Of Book Cover Design by Joseph Connolly
Book Design by Andrew Haslam
New Book Design by Roger Fawcett-Tang and Caroline Roberts
By It’s Cover: Modern American Book Design by Ned Drew and Paul Spencer Sternberger
Fully Booked: Cover Art And Design For Books by Matthias Hübner
Notes On Book Design by Derek Birdsall
Book-Art: Innovation In Book Design by Charlotte Rivers
Children’s Book Covers: Great Book Jacket And Cover Design by Alan Powers

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