This is what my book cover would look like on the Amazon website:
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
In context and Amazon Photo
This is what my book cover would look like in a book store:
This is what my book cover would look like on the Amazon website:
This is what my book cover would look like on the Amazon website:
final Book Cover design
This is the final design of the Front, spine, and back cover for the book cover project:
Design on Computer
My Book cover design went though quite a few stages to develop in to its the final product. Here a a few images throughout the developing stage.
This is the archival paper that I crumbled up in order to make the background texture for my book cover:
I took a few pictures of my girlfriend Sam holding a locket that my mom gave me for my book cover:
This is the image of Dostoevsky that I photoshoped into the lock for my book cover:
These are the first few drafts of m y book cover design:
After the critique, I decided to take the images of the hand holding the locket out and just having the locket laying on the page.
Thia is a snapshot the of the front, spine, and back cover.
This is the archival paper that I crumbled up in order to make the background texture for my book cover:
I took a few pictures of my girlfriend Sam holding a locket that my mom gave me for my book cover:
This is the image of Dostoevsky that I photoshoped into the lock for my book cover:
These are the first few drafts of m y book cover design:
After the critique, I decided to take the images of the hand holding the locket out and just having the locket laying on the page.
Thia is a snapshot the of the front, spine, and back cover.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Sketch of Book Cover
Here is my sketch for my book cover design. My idea was to use images and have a hand coming in from the right of the cover holding a chain with a locket attached to the end of it. Inside the locket would be a picture of the author that the girl in the short story is obsessed with. In the background are ripped pages from a book. These are to represent books written by the author.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Summaries of short stories
Memoirs of a Muse:
This short story was about a young girl who after seeing a picture of an author named Dostoyevsky, fell in love with him. When her grandmother became ill, she learned more about this author and his wife, Anna. She often fantasized about being with Dostoyevsky. She was assigned a research project and focused on Dostoyevsky’s life married to Anna. After learning about his wife, she became very angry and jealous towards her. She was angered at the thought that Anna was his muse. She was excited to later learn that Dostoyevsky’s book, The Gambler, was inspired by another woman, who she approved of.
Why Don’t You Dance?
In this short story, a man who may or may not have lost a women, decided to put all of his furniture and items from inside his house out into his front yard. A passing boy and girl noticed, and thought that it may be a yard sale and decided to take a look around. Minutes later, the man who owned all of the stuff returned from a trip to the store and the boy and girl made a few offers on the man’s things. The man offered them a drink and put a record on the record player. He told the boy and girl do dance and this continued for hours. Afterwards, the girl was trying to explain what had happened in that mans yard but had a difficult time explaining.
Birthmark
This short story is about a girl who had a large, red birthmark on her face that she wanted removed. When she finally got it removed, she was upset and felt she lost a part of her. She got married to a man and felt anger towards him because she believed that if she still had that birthmark, her husband would not have married her. Things with her relationship over the years became rough, until one day she spilled jam in her kitchen, causing her birthmark to return. She was very upset about this, but her husband was thrilled and felt that this gave them the opportunity to have a better relationship and have children.
This short story was about a young girl who after seeing a picture of an author named Dostoyevsky, fell in love with him. When her grandmother became ill, she learned more about this author and his wife, Anna. She often fantasized about being with Dostoyevsky. She was assigned a research project and focused on Dostoyevsky’s life married to Anna. After learning about his wife, she became very angry and jealous towards her. She was angered at the thought that Anna was his muse. She was excited to later learn that Dostoyevsky’s book, The Gambler, was inspired by another woman, who she approved of.
Why Don’t You Dance?
In this short story, a man who may or may not have lost a women, decided to put all of his furniture and items from inside his house out into his front yard. A passing boy and girl noticed, and thought that it may be a yard sale and decided to take a look around. Minutes later, the man who owned all of the stuff returned from a trip to the store and the boy and girl made a few offers on the man’s things. The man offered them a drink and put a record on the record player. He told the boy and girl do dance and this continued for hours. Afterwards, the girl was trying to explain what had happened in that mans yard but had a difficult time explaining.
Birthmark
This short story is about a girl who had a large, red birthmark on her face that she wanted removed. When she finally got it removed, she was upset and felt she lost a part of her. She got married to a man and felt anger towards him because she believed that if she still had that birthmark, her husband would not have married her. Things with her relationship over the years became rough, until one day she spilled jam in her kitchen, causing her birthmark to return. She was very upset about this, but her husband was thrilled and felt that this gave them the opportunity to have a better relationship and have children.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Paul Rand Presentation
I have been doing lots of research about graphic designer, Paul Rand, and here are some of the notes that I have found in my research.
- Paul Rand is best known for his corporate logo designs, especially IBM, ABC, UPS.
- He went to a few different schools but most of his design knowledge was self-taught.
- He designed covers for Direction Magazine for free, in exchange for complete freedom is designing. (Artistic Freedom) This was an important step in the development for the "Paul Rand" look. One of the covers had barbed wire. It was a wire torn gift and crucifix. This showed his freedom and also allowed him to experiment with themes not typically found in graphic design.
- He designed the third UPS logo adding the bowtie.
- In 2003, it changed for the first time in 42 years. He got rid of the box and string. The string refrained UPS's abilities to represent in various supply chain services.
- He designed the 8 bar IBM logo in 1972. It had horizontal stripes representing speed and dynamism (from solid letters) The block letters were to establish authority without alienating its audience. The Big represented the big company and the blue representing the color of the first logo. It represented an equal sign.
- In 1965, he designed the ABC logo. It was very simple, unique, and memorable. (reduced information)
- He also created the Westinghouse logo and lightbulb boxes.
- In 1966, he designed the Ford logo. They asked him to design a logo but decided not to use his design.
- NeXt: He worked with Steve Jobd. Steve Jobs resigned from Apple in 1985 to start his own company for higher education computers. Steve Jobs hired Rand for the logo and offered $100,000 to develop a 100 page brochure.
- From the research done so far, I would say Steve Rand's mission statement: He looked at his influences and past designers strongly and got the idea of taking something ordinary and make it more creative in his designs.
I have each of the images I am using selected already, just not placed on the powerpoint yet.
This links I used to find my research are:
http://www.logoblog.org/ibm-logo.php
http://www.designishistory.com/1960/paul-rand/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT
- Paul Rand is best known for his corporate logo designs, especially IBM, ABC, UPS.
- He went to a few different schools but most of his design knowledge was self-taught.
- He designed covers for Direction Magazine for free, in exchange for complete freedom is designing. (Artistic Freedom) This was an important step in the development for the "Paul Rand" look. One of the covers had barbed wire. It was a wire torn gift and crucifix. This showed his freedom and also allowed him to experiment with themes not typically found in graphic design.
- He designed the third UPS logo adding the bowtie.
- In 2003, it changed for the first time in 42 years. He got rid of the box and string. The string refrained UPS's abilities to represent in various supply chain services.
- He designed the 8 bar IBM logo in 1972. It had horizontal stripes representing speed and dynamism (from solid letters) The block letters were to establish authority without alienating its audience. The Big represented the big company and the blue representing the color of the first logo. It represented an equal sign.
- In 1965, he designed the ABC logo. It was very simple, unique, and memorable. (reduced information)
- He also created the Westinghouse logo and lightbulb boxes.
- In 1966, he designed the Ford logo. They asked him to design a logo but decided not to use his design.
- NeXt: He worked with Steve Jobd. Steve Jobs resigned from Apple in 1985 to start his own company for higher education computers. Steve Jobs hired Rand for the logo and offered $100,000 to develop a 100 page brochure.
- From the research done so far, I would say Steve Rand's mission statement: He looked at his influences and past designers strongly and got the idea of taking something ordinary and make it more creative in his designs.
I have each of the images I am using selected already, just not placed on the powerpoint yet.
This links I used to find my research are:
http://www.logoblog.org/ibm-logo.php
http://www.designishistory.com/1960/paul-rand/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT
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