Week11 – ADV1162

On April 20, 2012, in Week 11, by Genevieve HItchings

Hello!

High priority:
I must receive FINAL poster by 5PM TODAY – Friday April 20, 2012.
(And that includes anyone who already submitted but wanted to make some final edits.)

You were supposed to send me a PDF of your final on Wednesday. If I have not received, you must email it to me ASAP. If you sent it and did not get an email back from me, it means I never received it – please send again or use one of the two website’s I recommended (see Week 10).

For the Grace gallery show I will take care of the printing and mounting – but I need your file by 5PM. (We will still print a final poster in class on Monday.)

And thank you to all whose posters I did receive. Your hard work is noted and appreciated!

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Project 2: Book Cover Design

Please review the following list of books. I would like you to select a source book for which you will develop a cover design. You may choose a book that is not on this list but please seek my approval before proceeding.

The advantage to choosing a book from this list is that you will not run into copyright issues. All selected books are public domain titles and have text readily available on-line through multiple sources. I recommend checking Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org) for full-text downloads on these titles.

Project Specs:
Cover designs MUST include the book title and author’s name; you are not required to feature any additional text.
Dimensions: 6 x 9”
Bleed: .125”
400dpi format
RGB
Photoshop or Illustrator

Book Recommendations
01. Jane AustenPride & Prejudice
02. J.M. Barrie Peter Pan
03. L. Frank BaumThe Wizard of Oz
04. Emily BronteWuthering Heights
05. Lewis CarrollAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland
06. Lewis CarrollThrough the Looking Glass
07. Charles DickensGreat Expectations
08. Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
09. HomerThe Odyssey and The Iliad
10. Victor HugoLes Miserables
11. Franz KafkaMetamorphosis
12. Rudyard KiplingThe Jungle Book
13. Herman MelvilleMoby Dick, or, the Whale
14. Robert Louis StevensonStrange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
15. Robert Louis StevensonTreasure Island
16. Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyFrankenstein
17. Bram StokerDracula
18. H.G. WellsThe War of the Worlds
19. H.G. WellsThe Time Machine
20. Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

-> Class Presentations
Tibor & Maira Kalman

Homework:
1. Select a book: Author and Title
2. Visit Barnes and Nobles online and research book cover designs in the Best-selling list for your genre: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/Classic-Books-Barnes-and-Noble-Classics/379003245

Additional We will discuss this in class next week:

Looking at a complete book cover (wrapped around a book) laid flat you will see the back cover, spine, and front cover, in that order from left to right. So allowing .125 for trim around each edge, your width formula is .125 + cover size + spine width + cover size + .125.

The formula for spine width is page width ( typically.002252) times final number of pages. So for a 300 page book the spine width would be .68 (.002252 x 300).

 

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