dariaga needed a new book or magazine cover design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 92 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
2ndlanguage
Our school of Polish as a foreign language is run by Daria Gabryanczyk - the author of the best selling book Polish for Dummies.
Daria holds a degree in Teaching Modern Languages and has thousands of hours of experience in teaching Polish as a foreign language and Polish literature to adults, undergraduates and children.
The target audience are adults usually having Polish speaking partner.
Book cover (ebook) for the "Polish Easy Readers" series.
- We'd rather avoid the red-white (Polish flag colours)
- Each book cover needs to have a space for a unique picture (we are
going to source from fotolia )
- We will use cartoons for pictures - we prefer relaxed/funky style
- We'd like to get a design of a generic cover which will promote a series. (Polish Easy Readers) as a brand.
- Yet we would like each book in the series to have distinct look perhaps some graphic we could replace easily when we make next book.
- It is crucial that the cover is designed in such a way that we will be able to replace the parts specific to each book by ourselves, so we can make more of covers without involving a designer.
Based on the designs we've received here is few additional comments:
- we are looking for funky design
- bright background, positive colours
- please don't get distracted by the example title "The murders..." - we would like to put a positive spin even on titles like this
- the message we'd like to convey is positive - "IT IS EASY TO LEARN POLISH" and IT IS FUN
- IMPORTANT: We'd like to use (funny) cartoons, different on each e-book. Cartoon would correspond to the title, i.e. Man with the knife with blood on it. Please see our page for examples (http://www.2ndlanguage.co.uk/collec…sy-readers)
- IMPORTANT: This are ebook covers so they need to be readable in (160px by 160px) i.e. check amazon listing (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref)
Here are few designs, which (to us) are happy - just to give you an idea:
- https://99designs.co.uk/profiles/co…gns/114754
- https://99designs.co.uk/profiles/co…gns/255181
- https://99designs.co.uk/profiles/co…gns/619232
Also please see our current covers which we want to replace with the professional design:
http://www.2ndlanguage.co.uk/collec…sy-readers
Example text which needs to be included on the cover:
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Polish Easy Readers
• Simple sentences
• Vocabulary boxes
• Gripping story
• Designed by experts
600 words Level A2
Morderstwo przy Rue Morgue
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
By Edgar Allan Poe - retold by Daria Gabryanczyk the author of the
best-selling book “Polish for Dummies”
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ABOUT THE SERIES
Polish Easy Readers are simplified text of well known novels, plays, short stories etc. They have vocabulary boxes with English translations that will reduce the use of dictionary. They have simple sentences so that you can follow the plot easily. Each book has a level description and number of headwords.
Our Polish Easy Readers will help you to improve your reading comprehension, expand your Polish vocabulary, teach you Polish grammar in a natural way and most importantly, all of that with no need of real studying!
See below few of our current covers which we would like to replace with the professional design