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BookCover Examples/Articles
_ book cover archive
_ penguine red collection
_ smashing magazine
_ sorodesign
_ nytimes review
_ read Media Bistro
_ Media Bristro article
_ bookdesign.wordpress
_ casual optimist.com
_ readerville.com
_ the penguin blog
Who is Chip Kidd?
Why is he important to us?
_ Chip Kidd: series
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Q&A on smithsonian
Who is John Gall?
Why is he important to us?
_ Step Mag
_ Covers article
Writing Concept and Audience
_ Audience Profiles
What is Sign, Index Symbol
_ Sign, Index, Symbol
_ Sign, Index, Symbol
_ article related
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A really good book cover has to work regardless of what it’s about, on a visceral and emotional level.
Chip Kidd
Want to get a jumpstart on the semester. Please use the same blog you have been using so when you are a senior you will have an artifact with all your work/ thinking/ inspiration.
BLOG: add to your blog: summarize and take notes
-- Read: This Means That
-- Read: _ Chip Kidd: series _
Q&A on smithsonian _ Step Mag _Covers article
-- Read: audience persona
BLOG: What makes a successful bookjacket? Click on and read the links on the upper left. PULL at least 3 examples and take notes what was successful / not successful and why and do you agree..
MAKE AN INDESIGN DOCUMENT with the following...
Style Reference: Looking through all online bookcover (upper left and google) examples, find at least 4 examples of each.. Look for type only and type and image examples for all listed below (try). All examples should all be ones that you thing fit the category and that you think are interesting. Don't just pick. Be considerate. There isn't really a wrong answer.
looking for feeling or mood
1) traditional
2) new / contemporary
3) old / vintage
4) futuristic (vintage or scientific: jestsons or tron)
5) dark / mysterious
6) romantic or fantasy
looking just at execution...
7) juxtaposed
6) cropped
8) framed / boarder
9) layered
10) title as a label
OTHER visual reference. Pull what you would like to keep for reference.
http://www.flickr.com
http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com
http://jessicahische.com/
http://www.buszmeni.pl
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