Sunday, October 19, 2008

New Assignment- DUE THE WEEK OF NOV. 10th

Pick one of these assignment.
FINAL VERSION IS DUE THE WEEK OF NOV. 10th
(MONDAY class Nov. 10 & WEDNESDAY class Wed. Nov. 12th)

YOU MUST POST YOUR STUFF EVERY WEEK. POST UPDATES AND ALL.

ASSIGNMENT #3
#1
1)Choose a household item, a tool of some sort, and invent a different usage for it.
2) Rebrand and repackage according to its new use.
3) Include "illustrated" instructions for usage.
Household tool could be anything from a hammer to a toothbrush, melon scoop, mousetrap, etc.

or,

#2
set a small book, a short story,
about the length of a signature or a little more.
kafka, the metamorphosis or some such.
you may use poetry.
(it can be tricky to set.)
take care with the text type, the chapter heads, the page numbers, the running heads, etc.
do an all type cover.
and a soft wrap.
unless you get motivated to do a hard cover.
i'm interested in the typography.
in how you make a simple book look interesting without using image.
*Make sure you find a good source to get the text from. Download from the web or such.

New Inspiration for Info-graphics.
These were designed by Bryan Farevaag.





Bookcovers that are great by Christopher Lin




2 comments:

Parka said...

These are really great. Good use of circles.

chris said...

I completely love all of these.