Harry Potter

Harry Potter audiobook cover designs

Rebranding a magical legacy for the digital age

The Harry Potter audiobook and ebook covers were redesigned for Audible and global digital platforms. I created the brand toolkit that powers their marketing across 26 languages and countless channels.

Type of work

Branding

Animation

Industry

Entertainment

Literature

Harry Potter brand guidelines title page

Every cover is a world of its own.

Each of the 8 books has a distinct identity with its own illustrations, characters, and background artwork, while all sharing a consistent design language.

The toolkit: crafted for flexibility.

Designed to be endlessly recomposed, the brand toolkit allows marketers to isolate and remix artwork elements into new compositions, without losing consistency.

Design advertisements for Instagram to promote the Harry Pottter audiobooks – showing scenes from the second, third and final Harry Potter books

Design showing a collage of images from the Harry Potter books

Illustrations depicting various scenes from Harry Potter to promote the series

Digital adverts designed to promote the Harry Potter audiobooks

System meets soul.

The toolkit balances order with personality: consistent layout, type rules and headline embellishments bring structure, while painterly strokes and magical flourishes bring harmony between the illustration style and typographic elements.

Image showing the design harmony between the illustrated covers and the typographic treatment
Design structure for the Harry Potter audiobook brand toolkit

Built for everywhere.

The brand assets now appear across billboards, websites, and social media. The toolkit enables fast, on-brand creation at scale.

A mixture of out of home adverts and digital ads
Billboard design to promote the Harry Potter eBook covers

All housed in a single system.

The work culminated in 100+ pages of brand guidelines and a master set of assets: everything needed to create consistent, flexible marketing from a single source.

Harry Potter brand guidelines screenshots
Example copy lines written for the brand guidelines

A magical, modular system built for lasting impact.

This approach has enabled the franchise to maintain its top position in the digital space, achieving 1 billion streams on Amazon and consistently ranking in the Top 10 charts on Audible, Storytel, and Amazon, enchant fans new and old.

Credits
Jack Bedford

Creative Director

Tom Harrington

Lead Designer

Animator

Jamie Slimmon

Cover Illustrations

Antonio Yotsov

Animator

Marcelle Auguard

Copywriter