Penguin asks creatives to redesign Stephen Fry book

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The publisher has open-sourced the comedian's new memoirs for graphic, web, app and 3D designers to get playful with.

We’ve all seen entertaining mashups of movies, TV shows and songs on YouTube. But what about books?

Whether you're a graphic, web, app or 3D designer, you can get involved

Whether you're a graphic, web, app or 3D designer, you can get involved

Samples of text, metadata, imagery and audio from the new book and Fry’s previous memoir The Fry Chronicles, are available for download via a special WeTransfer Plus page. And Penguin Books is challenging people to turn them into their own innovative takes on Fry’s memoirs.

The brief invites entrants to focus on a theme based on the celebrity’s passions, including technology, friendship and heroes, literature and language. WeTransfer will showcase some of the unique submissions on the site, which has 60 million users worldwide. You can find full details of this intriguing challenge here.

Tom May
Tom May
Freelance journalist and editor

Tom May is an award-winning journalist specialising in art, design, photography and technology. His latest book, The 50 Greatest Designers (Arcturus Publishing), was published this June. He's also author of Great TED Talks: Creativity (Pavilion Books). Tom was previously editor of Professional Photography magazine, associate editor at Creative Bloq, and deputy editor at net magazine.