Designing a book cover

NAYANTARA GOYAL

PROJECT BRIEF To design a cover for One Flew Over The

Cuckoo’s Nest for the Penguin Adult Award.

‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ is well known both in celluloid and print, so it is essential to come at it from a fresh angle. Try to design a new cover for a new generation of readers, avoiding the obvious clichés and steering clear of the film promotional graphics. Originality is key.

Audience: all readers both familiar and unfamiliar with the text, male and female.

Research Synopsis

CharactersCharacter sketches

Themes

explorations

Final cuckoo and brain.

Exploration of covers

Through this cover I was trying to show the submissive nature of the wards and how they thought they were actually crazy(the brain with the orange bird on top is symbolic of the wards). The black bird flying is symbolic of McMurphy’s rebellios nature.

Here I’m trying to show all the wards who submissively live in the way they are told to live. Through this I’m also trying to portray the fact that they all feel they are mentally ill and therefore deserve or are meant to be in the institution.

USED A DIFFERENT SORT OF BRAIN HERE

THE ENTIRE SPREAD

This covers shows how all the wards are in the institutuion and live in accordance to the Nurse’s rules but McMurphy does not live by her rules hence there is one brain on the cover with a bird missing symbolic of McMurphy and his refusal to conform.

This is my final concept. The black bird flying is symbolic of McMurphy’s rebellious nature and general fight for some amounts of freedom as opposed to the wards who do whatever they are told to do. The three figures are symbolic of the wards and their submissiveness and belief that they are genuinely crazy.

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