wioletta lenczowska, winner, cover design contest no. 6
Perhaps our cover design contest no.6: DSM-5/DSoM at 40, american psychiatric association/pink floyd [2013] was a bit, shall we say, open ended. In any event, there was a record low turnout (fewer than 40 entries!). Still, if the thirty-odd designs hewed rather closely to relatively predictable images (prisms, rainbows, brains) there were nonetheless among them some well-executed and interesting covers. I especially liked the shattered prism of Moira Perez (Spain) and the light-absorbing prism of Tomasz Florczak (Poland). Gary Gowans (UK) and Narayana Navarroza (Philippines) both opted for a new, top-down perspective, while the cover of Fionn Byrne (Canada) emphasizes the particular dimensions of diagnostics. Janusz Marciniak (Poland) found inspiration in a rainbow aura. Helena Raczynska-Pachut (Poland) and Przemyslaw Pachut (Poland) rounded out the sequence with their interpretations. Lastly, I should note that a few people, at least, dispensed with expected themes altogether. I liked the rather clinical covers of Mia Vucic (Croatia).
Still, it was Wioletta Lenczowska (Poland) whose precise and lovely covers seemed just right.
Row 1:
Moira Perez
Row 2:
Tomasz Florczak
Row 3:
Gary Gowans (l)
Narayana Navarroza (r)
Row 4:
Fionn Byrne (l)
Janusz Marciniak (r)
Row 5:
Helena Raczynska-Pachut (l)
Przemyslaw Pachut (r)
Row 6:
Mia Vucic
