The designobserver.com has some great links to other websites
The Many, Many Curious Cases of Benjamin Button Because it was published before January 1, 1923, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is in the public domain. And because of the film, a slew of new editions has been released in the last few months. Here's a mix of US and UK covers, most of them pretty horrible.
Chip Kidd did a great job of introducing this assignment.
cover design
book size 6.75 x 9.75 upright
spine make it 3/8 inch
the cover design must include a design for the spine and back cover as well.
you can put contributors names and any text you wish on the back
On the spine put the book title + the last names of the editors: Beirut, Drenttel, Helfand + Fordham Visual Arts Press. Book Title: Design Observered Edited by Michael Bierut William Drenttel Jessica Helfand Contributors Eric Baker Ernest Beck Andrew Blauvelt Steven Heller Julie Lasky Rick Poynor Adrian Shaughnessy Dmitri Siegel Alice Twemlow Tom Vanderbilt Lorraine Wild
Process
Begin by looking at the content of the webblog and get a sense of the content.
Next look at lots and lots of other books within and without the genre and use existing books as your model and refer to actual book covers often to see how copy is handled and laid out.
For the final present three designs
- all typographic
- type and image(s)
- image that bleeds and type
bring in sketches for next class
a few links showing book jacket designs
http://www.bookcoverarchive.com/
http://alvinlustig.com/
http://www.readerville.com/index.php/journal/archive/category/coveted/
http://judgeabook.blogspot.com/
