A definition of madness

My entry into the Penguin Design Awards Competition:

Told through the eyes of the Chief, the story is a protest against the conformed patterns of society that teeters on madness. To emulate this broken system I drew upon the book’s most vivid imagery of rusted machinery, from Nurse Ratched’s remote control to the vents that seemingly pump endless fog. 

Flying out of this nest of broken pieces the cover’s typography was created through the almost maddening process of scribbling the words as quickly as possible with charcoal.