Jet Purdie ∵ Book Cover Design ∵ Art Direction ∵ Illustration

Design and illustration by Jet Purdie
Title type lettering by Jan Bielecki

by Kim Smejkal

Design by Jet Purdie
Young woman's face illustration by Arvitalya

Art Direction / design by Jet Purdie
Illustration by Seth Pimentel / African Ginger

I really enjoyed working with Seth. Thank you so much for an amazing cover : )

Art Direction and type: Jet Purdie
Illustration: Patrick Leger

This was a fun project that I created while on holiday in Menorca with my daughter and Mum.

I didn’t really have time to take this project on, but I read the brief anyhow… then had an idea while losing at tennis and I had my daughter pose for a quick, blurry iPhone photo which I traced-over in Procreate that evening while watching a terrible film.

I shared the rough with lovely editor Alison Savage and the Neem Tree Press team and author – Laura Baggaley – and the only changes they wanted was a change of clothes (fair enough) and the ON/OFF switch moved to the ON position... which I wish I'd thought of.

I'm glad I did the project as it helped pay for the trillion Menorca friendship bracelets my daughter forced me to buy and never wore again : )

The red and yellow was inspired by the Spanish flag.

Illustration & Design: Jet Purdie

I designed this cover in Penguin's The Originals series style. It was a really quick and fun project.

It's also a lovely book, written by the author when he was just seventeen. 

Design: Jet Purdie
Bird illustration: Annie Konst

I was handed this project with only two weeks before a final cover was needed for a sales visual. The project ended-up being fairly pleasant as I was left to just get on with it with minimal feedback.

The title font was inspired by WeTrsanfer.com and the colourway was inspired by the old Chicago Bears American football uniform.

It printed with two Pantones, foil, spot UV, emboss.

Art Direction and design: Jet Purdie
Illustration: Andrea de Santis

Design & Illustration: Jet Purdie
Title type hand lettering: Peter Strain

This is the paperback edition for Sarah Crossan’s Moonrise.

My concept for the paperback edition of the Moonrise cover was to show the protagonist’s older brother (Ed Moon) in a prison cell … only in a more pretty, hopeful, eye-catching and metaphoric way, with the moon representing their surname and the birdcage representing prison.

I was a little bit inspired by Leonard Cohen’s The Future album cover artwork, which is very logo like and has a nice balance of pretty and grim, with it’s blue heart, hummingbird and handcuffs.

Art Direction and design: Jet Purdie
Illustration: Jet Purdie

Illustration and design: Jet Purdie
Title Type: Patrick Knowles

I really liked the One paperback, so it was a slight challenge creating this re-jacket.

Art Direction / Design: Jet Purdie 

By Kate Wiseman

Design by Jet Purdie

Design by Jet Purdie
Cover photo by Wolfgang Mustain
Based on a cover from 20 years ago.

I offered to re-jacket the 20 Year Special Edition cover of Witch Child as my friend’s daughter is on one of Celia’s other covers and I wanted to try give the old photos a new lease of life.

I was also asked to explore illustration, but I was sure I could inject some contemporary style foiling over the old photos and still celebrate the original iconic cover photo.

I found an old Candlewick Press edition of Witch Child that used a font called La Figura and decided to re-draw it by hand and change the letter C. Personally, I felt the old title type on the original edition looked like an author name font, and the author font looked like a title font… so I switched the emphasis around. I also though Celia might like her name in gold foil - she deserves it, as its’ a great story.

To make it the 20 Year Anniversary Edition extra special I decided to overlay my favourite part of the protagonist’s journal over the photo in gold foil, plus add some little illustrations relevant to the text.

I hope you like it : )

Art Direction / Design: Jet Purdie

Shortlisted for the ABCD (Academy of British Cover Design) awards 2016.

Art Direction: Jet Purdie
Illustration & lettering: Jan Bielecki

Art Direction: Jet Purdie
Illustration: Patrick Leger

Illustration by Fernanda Suarez
Design by Jet Purdie

Fernanda is an absolute dream to work with - so professional.

Thank you Fernanda : )

Design: Jet Purdie

Design and illustration: Jet Purdie

3D illustration by Sasha Vinogradova
Design by Jet Purdie
Title type by Jeanette Levy

Fun fact: Sasha worked on Jay-Z’s award wining ‘The Story of O.J.’ animated music video.

Design by Jet Purdie
Illustration by Alessandro 'Talexi' Taini

Series design based on And I Darken by Margaret Hope

Art Direction: Jet Purdie
Illustration: Patrick Leger

Shortlisted for The Kitschies Inky Tentacle (cover art) award 2015

Art Direction & Design: Jet Purdie
Illustration: Jan Bielecki

Given the book features drones, I thought it would be cool to show the protagonist from a bird’s eye view, plus make the eye symbol (from the hardback) look like a target. Drones aren’t the most interesting shapes, so I decided to depict it as a shadow.

Art Direction / Design: Jet Purdie
Photos: Jan Bielecki
Spot varnish icons: Duncan. X
Model: Polly Norton

Art Direction / Design / Illustration: Jet Purdie
Concept inspired by The X-Files episode Never Again

Art Direction: Jet Purdie
Illustration: Levente Szabó

Shortlisted for the ABCD (Academy of British Cover Design) awards 2015.

Art Direction: Jet Purdie
Illustration: Petra Eriksson

Design: Jet Purdie
Illustration: Levente Szabó
Front Lines series design by Andrea Kearney

I pushed for a punky pink flouro Pantone with greys for the camo pattern... but they didn’t go for it.

Art Direction: Jet Purdie
Design: Melissa Four

I explored several routes but none were quite right, so I contacted Melissa Four to inject some fresh energy and Mel nailed it!

Thanks for getting involved Mel - you life saver you!

Paperback Gryffindor House edition
Illustration by Levi Pinfold
Series Design by the amazing Andrea Kearney

When I started at Bloomsbury, Andrea asked if I wanted to put together four of the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets covers. It took me a while to get my head around the fact that Bloomsbury were publishing 8 version of the same book - 4 hardbacks and 4 paperbacks, in the Hogwarts School house colours, inverting the Levi Pinfold artwork for the paperbacks. So in total, the 7 main Harry books would become 56 books!

It should’ve been fun but the Bloomsbury server and old Mac I was issued were painfully slow.

Production and I had to oversee the printing of these books at CPI, ensuring the colours matched the four version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The print run was stomach churningly large.

Hardback Gryffindor House edition
Illustration by Levi Pinfold
Series Design by the amazing Andrea Kearney

When I started at Bloomsbury, Andrea asked if I wanted to put together four of the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets covers. It took me a while to get my head around the fact that Bloomsbury were publishing 8 version of the same book - 4 hardbacks and 4 paperbacks, in the Hogwarts School house colours, inverting the Levi Pinfold artwork for the paperbacks. So in total, the 7 main Harry books would become 56 books!

It should’ve been fun but the Bloomsbury server and old Mac I was issued were painfully slow.

Production and I had to oversee the printing of these books at CPI, ensuring the colours matched the four version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The print run was stomach churningly large.

Paperback Slytherin House edition
Illustration by Levi Pinfold
Series Design by the amazing Andrea Kearney

When I started at Bloomsbury, Andrea asked if I wanted to put together four of the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets covers. It took me a while to get my head around the fact that Bloomsbury were publishing 8 version of the same book - 4 hardbacks and 4 paperbacks, in the Hogwarts School house colours, inverting the Levi Pinfold artwork for the paperbacks. So in total, the 7 main Harry books would become 56 books!

It should’ve been fun but the Bloomsbury server and old Mac I was issued were painfully slow.

Production and I had to oversee the printing of these books at CPI, ensuring the colours matched the four version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The print run was stomach churningly large.

Hardback Slytherin House edition
Illustration by Levi Pinfold
Series Design by the amazing Andrea Kearney

When I started at Bloomsbury, Andrea asked if I wanted to put together four of the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets covers. It took me a while to get my head around the fact that Bloomsbury were publishing 8 version of the same book - 4 hardbacks and 4 paperbacks, in the Hogwarts School house colours, inverting the Levi Pinfold artwork for the paperbacks. So in total, the 7 main Harry books would become 56 books!

It should’ve been fun but the Bloomsbury server and old Mac I was issued were painfully slow.

Production and I had to oversee the printing of these books at CPI, ensuring the colours matched the four version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The print run was stomach churningly large.

Art Direction: Jet Purdie
Illustration: Alexis Snell

I created a re-jacket for a paperback, but sadly it never went to print