Vote for AceJet170

Random House and Creative Review have been running a competition for designers to design the new cover for Jeff Howe's new book Crowdsourcing. (Did you see what they did there?) All the entries get uploaded and you can vote for your favourite.

Richard AceJet170 has submitted his entry and it's lovely.

I'm not just saying this because Richard is a friend, I'm saying it because the typography is nice and it's sensitively handled. The image is intriguing, relevant on several levels and beautifully shot. All this and it's clever too.

So vote for Richard.

Comments

[nat]

wow, i personally think his cover blows all the others out of the water. definitely a 5/5!

[davidthedesigner]

That's all very well, but Richard quite clearly hasn't taken any notice at all of my '52 fonts that you could use instead of Helvetica' series. Admittedly, I've only posted six so far. But there's always Trajan. He knows that.

I might just abstain.

[Ben]

Richard is obviously upset at your ranking.

[davidthedesigner]

Are you calling me a ranker?

[Steve O]

Definatley the best of the bunch. A spacious, light design that still puts across the idea of a crowd coming together - lovely. And it doesn't make use of Shutterstock!

[lauren]

love it. ranks highly.

[Richard]

Thanks for the support everyone. In response to David's comment, Helvetica wasn't chosen lightly, oh no. I chose it because I felt it would be the choice of the crowd. So it was either Helvetica or Comic Sans.

[Tom.]

Is it too late for ME to enter the competition ?

[Ben]

Nope. You've got until midnight 10th Feb http://www.coversourcing.co.uk/rules#time

[er?]

Truly great image, let down by boring font choice. I understand your thinking, but it had to be explained - a step too far with the conceptual thinking maybe?

[Richard]

Ouch!

[your friends in america]

Wow...sounds like spec work to me. Does £500 really cover the cost of an adequate design job?

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/position-spec-work