There was minimal planning during the eight weeks as it was more about experimenting with type and composition in designing book covers. ![]() What was your process? Did you plan beforehand? I chose colors and manipulated textures to mirror those feelings. The storyline and characters are so well-developed and beautifully written. It gave me a feeling of "erosion" but also a kind of harmony between the machine and the human hand. Nobody would be able to guess from the cheesy title and the cheesier cover art that this book is, in fact, everything that a historical romance should be. I found Benjamin's writing very bold but also very poetic. A lot of times I would design around twenty covers and eventually bring it down to the ten that I found most reflective of the text. Each week I would read over the assigned short passage of Benjamin's Illuminations, and design covers in response to the text. Book features the calligraphic illumination art of Ori Sherman in bright colors. Probable 1st edition with no additional printings listed. I thought about what worked and what didn't, which covers could improve/which covers I could build off of and which ones needed a different approach. Slight trace of wear to cover and cover edges. I would design book covers that respond to the critique I received from the previous week. The exhibition examines the four stages involved in the making of a medieval book: parchment making, writing, illumination, and binding. I felt that this design process, starting with the bare minimum and gradually increasing in complexity, really helped winnow out and improve on the best designs. Parameters for the following weeks allowed me to include bold font, italic font, point size combinations (limit three per design), rules and solid blocks of black, white text on black, and finally color and photographic images. ![]() The second week had similar parameters except I could use any single point size per design. Additionally, I played with leading, letter spacing, and upper or lower case. The first week had the most basic parameters: use Times New Roman Regular or Times Regular, 9 point size only, type in black on white. The parameters accumulated over eight weeks. What guidelines were you given for this project?Įach week I was given the assignment to design ten very different covers with parameters that gradually gave me more freedom. ![]() She fell in love with typography and its culture and is interested in creating printed media and books about various subjects. During her first year at UCLA, she designed The Absurd Kind of Uniformity in Carolina Trigo's typography class, which includes eight booklets representing an eight week design process of book covers for Walter Benjamin's Illuminations: Essays and Reflections and On Some Motifs in Baudelaire, a poster documenting a typographic paper sculpture, and a small intro/artist statement card. Kelly Chu, a sophomore at UCLA majoring in Design/Media Arts, was introduced to illustration at age 8 when she began art classes at YMCA San Francisco and began to experiment with design as she got older.
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