Book Cover Design
CLO: Students will be able to create a template for their own book jacket, creatively design all 5 parts of a book jacket, and be able to critique and reflect in written form.
Learning Goals/Requirements:
1. Students will bring in an old book (the content doesn't matter. The size doesn't matter. You can design a faux book jacket for the book.) and create a template that will fit that book perfectly.
2. Students will create a book jacket including Front cover, Back cover, Spine and front and back flaps for a book that has influenced them in some way.
3. Students will use illustrator and/or photoshop for design and text.
4. Inside flaps will include a brief summary of the book that would pique (arouse) someone's curiosity and make them want to read it, as well as a bio about the author and illustrator (in this case, you.)
Standards addressed:
CVAS3: Invent and Discover to Create: ...To make art involves creating, inventing, conceiving formulating and imagining art...
ARVD.03.02.a Identify and demonstrate positive work behaviors and personal qualities necessary for the current
workforce (i.e., Critical Thinking, Information Literacy, Collaboration, Self Direction, Invention).ARVD.02.01.c Investigate to gather information necessary for decision making.
ARVD.02.01.d Employ ongoing reflective strategies during the design process.
New Academic Language within the context of this project:
1. Template: a properly measured outline of the format for a piece of print media. These are the perimeters of your physical work.
2. Foreshadowing: Using visual imagery to pique curiosity and reveal key elements of a story.
3. Cover, Spine and Flaps: The physical parts of the book jacket.
4. Composition: When all parts of the artwork work together in a cohesive, creative and effective manner.
Artist Statement:
CLO: Students will be able to reflect in writing on their process and concept in their personal identity design.
Artist Statement Prompts:
1. Discuss the factors you considered when developing your book jacket?
2. Discuss the new skills you learned and how you used them to develop your design.
3. What problems did you run into and how did you solve them?
4. What feed back did you get in the critique and did you choose to incorporate it? Why or why not?
5. What are you trying to communicate with your book jacket?
Please write about 2-3 sentences in response to the prompts, utilizing them to guide your writing. I recommend using Word so that you can edit and then just copy and paste into your web page.
Learning Goals/Requirements:
1. Students will bring in an old book (the content doesn't matter. The size doesn't matter. You can design a faux book jacket for the book.) and create a template that will fit that book perfectly.
2. Students will create a book jacket including Front cover, Back cover, Spine and front and back flaps for a book that has influenced them in some way.
3. Students will use illustrator and/or photoshop for design and text.
4. Inside flaps will include a brief summary of the book that would pique (arouse) someone's curiosity and make them want to read it, as well as a bio about the author and illustrator (in this case, you.)
Standards addressed:
CVAS3: Invent and Discover to Create: ...To make art involves creating, inventing, conceiving formulating and imagining art...
ARVD.03.02.a Identify and demonstrate positive work behaviors and personal qualities necessary for the current
workforce (i.e., Critical Thinking, Information Literacy, Collaboration, Self Direction, Invention).ARVD.02.01.c Investigate to gather information necessary for decision making.
ARVD.02.01.d Employ ongoing reflective strategies during the design process.
New Academic Language within the context of this project:
1. Template: a properly measured outline of the format for a piece of print media. These are the perimeters of your physical work.
2. Foreshadowing: Using visual imagery to pique curiosity and reveal key elements of a story.
3. Cover, Spine and Flaps: The physical parts of the book jacket.
4. Composition: When all parts of the artwork work together in a cohesive, creative and effective manner.
Artist Statement:
CLO: Students will be able to reflect in writing on their process and concept in their personal identity design.
Artist Statement Prompts:
1. Discuss the factors you considered when developing your book jacket?
2. Discuss the new skills you learned and how you used them to develop your design.
3. What problems did you run into and how did you solve them?
4. What feed back did you get in the critique and did you choose to incorporate it? Why or why not?
5. What are you trying to communicate with your book jacket?
Please write about 2-3 sentences in response to the prompts, utilizing them to guide your writing. I recommend using Word so that you can edit and then just copy and paste into your web page.