30 Covers, 30 Days 2014: Day 1 with Designer Andrew Twigg

30 Covers, 30 Days is back! What is 30C30D? We match up 30 professional designers with 30 NaNoWriMo participants, and challenge the designers to create a book cover in 48 hours or less, based solely on that participants’ 2014 NaNo-novel synopsis.

The NaNo-novel: Adrift In the Ocean of Change

A hundred years after a catastrophic flooding event, the entire world is covered in ocean. Humans survive in boats made of bone and leather, leading nomadic lives, and meeting at coral reefs and kelp forests to trade.

Then, one young woman goes diving for pearls, only to find something far more precious: seeds. She finds herself caught between three leaders who think they should have sole control of the seeds. Her own plan? To share them with all of humanity.

The Genre: Adventure

The Author: Amaya, in Australia :: Canberra & the ACT

The Designer: Andrew Twigg is Assistant Teaching Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Design, where he has focused on web design and cross-media design systems, and is an independent designer practicing visual-verbal design strategy, branding and web design. Andrew has served as the Presidents Council Chair of AIGA, the professional association for design, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for DesignInquiry, a conference-alternative design research organization. He can be found on Twitter at @andrewtwigg.

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