21 September 2009

Spring '09 ~ Book Design ~ Font Study

For this assignment we chose 5 words as a class, then 5 genres. We had to choose fonts that illustrated that word in the certain genres. It was a blast.

*I can't find the file right now, so I have a placeholder in here. This is a font study I did for fun. The bottom font is one of the rockin'-est fonts I've ever seen. I owe much of my fonts used in this class to DaFont.


Spring '09 ~ Book Design ~ Illustrative Word

This was my first assignment in my Design & Production class, and it was a fun one. We had to choose a word and then artistically portray it. I chose the word Brewski. The bottle cap didn't quite come out right, but it was fun playing with a new feature in InDesign.


18 September 2009

Winter '09 ~ Intro to Publishing ~ Introduction

I was going through design withdrawls after my first quarter of design heaven. And again I had a final project for a class that was extremely open-ended. We could do anything we wanted about publishing. And, of course, I did a project on my favorite book cover designers. I had so much fun doing this project and it may just be my most favorite project to come out of the program (so far). I am going to break up the posts by designer to make it easier to access. This is my introduction page detailing my thoughts about book cover design.




Winter '09 ~ Intro to Publishing ~ Julie Engel


Winter '09 ~ Intro to Publishing ~ Rodrigo Corral


Winter '09 ~ Intro to Publishing ~ Peter Mendelsund


Winter '09 ~ Intro to Publishing ~ Jon Gray

* I had to do two covers because of a font embedding issue. I thought the first font was closer to his style.




Winter '09 ~ Intro to Publishing ~ John Gall


Winter '09 ~ Intro to Publishing ~ Isaac Tobin


Winter '09 ~ Intro to Publishing ~ Helen Yentus