Today’s Plan:
- Book cover and jacket
- Hand back posters
Book Cover and Jacket
Today I wanted to revisit the book cover portion of the project. You will notice that I am asking for a book cover with a jacket, the flaps that keep a cover on a hard cover book. There’s a number of tutorials for how to do these, but I found this one to be the most useful: Design Like a Pro’s youtube tutorial on book jackets. Design Like a Pro has another tutorial that shows how they design a 9×6 book cover from scratch.
Note that she use a whole inch for the spine. This likely would be too thick for books of poetry, which tend to be smaller. My guess is 1/2 to a 3/4 inch would be sufficient for the spine (and I would have a design that could accommodate different widths.
So, just remember that your book cover needs to have:
- Front cover
- Back cover
- Spine
- Front flap
- Back flap
Get your hands on some hardcovers with jackets to get a sense of what appears inside.
Handing Back Posters
I want to hand back posters and check to see if any grades are missing.
Work Time
My plan for the rest of class was to give you time to work on your book while I come around and check in on people’s progress.
Homework
Keep working on your books.
Read Garret, Presentation Zen.
In Thursday’s class, I will go over the final component of the project–a powerpoint presentation that shows us your book and takes us through the design process (including showing some research). We will treat these like a pitch. You will give these presentations in class on Tuesday, March 22nd when we get back from class. Again, I will give more explicit criteria for the presentations and some advice for making dynamic, visual presentations in Thursday’s class. The Reynolds reading gets us started, and I will share some advice from his textbook.
