1. The Reinterpreted Cover
Studio Art & Design 1

2. Agenda Group Discussion This Story Because Worksheet
Compositional Sketches (3 minimum)
Refine Ideas
Clean up
Next Class

3. Challenge
Create a book cover for a classic story that illustrates your own understanding of the tale.

4. NAME 3
Classic Stories

7. Frankenstein
By Mary Shelly

8. Illustrated by Uncredited

9. Illustrated by Joaquin Pertierra

10. Illustrated by Marion Mousse

11. Coralie Bickford-Smith
Designed by
Coralie Bickford-Smith

12. Illustrated by Phillip Im

13. How To Get Started
Challenge - Create a book cover for a classic story that illustrates your own understanding of the tale.
Step 1 – List a few classic stories that you favor or have a connection with.
Step 2 – Pick one story and reflect with a written paragraph describing how and why you connect with that story. Figure out what part of the story you’d like to illustrate.
Step 3 - Create at least 3 compositional sketches that depict that part of the story through your interpretation.

14. Questions to ask yourself
Do I want to represent my reinterpretation of the story through a specific character, setting, or object?
Will my reinterpreted cover for the story look better as a graphic design or an illustration?
Does my reinterpreted cover best depict the mood of the overall story?

15. Agenda – Session 2 Review objectives Finish 3 sketches
Group Critique to pick best composition
Studio Time
Clean up
Next Class

16. How To Get Started
Challenge - Create a book cover for a classic story that illustrates your own understanding of the tale.
Step 1 – Complete 3 compositional sketches
Step 2 – Participate in group critique to help pick best composition that depicts your reinterpretation of the classic story
Step 3 – Studio Time
Step 4 – Continue working

17. Agenda – Session 3 Individualized critique Studio Time Clean up
Next Class

18. How To Get Started
Challenge - Create a book cover for a classic story that illustrates your own understanding of the tale.
Step 1 – Work on final artwork
Step 2 – Prepare any questions/concerns by the time I come by
Step 3 – Check to see if your book cover matches the written portion from the This Book Because worksheet

19. Agenda – Session 4 Final Edits PQP at your table Reflect/Review
Clean up
Next Lesson

20. How To Get Started
Challenge - Create a book cover for a classic story that illustrates your own understanding of the tale.
Step 1 – Make any final edits
Step 2 – PQP at your table
Step 3 – Reflect/Review as a class
Step 4 – Hand in work

21. For students who are ahead session 4/5
Introduce Typography to incorporate Title/Author on scanned image of their book cover.

22. Typography
What is it?

23. Typography
ty·pog·ra·phy \tī-ˈpä-grə-fē\
(n): the style, arrangement, or appearance of printed letters on a page

24. Serif
Sans - Serif

25. Serif
Sans - Serif
In the world of typography, a “serif” is a tiny line attached to the end of a stroke (point to point line segment) in a letter or symbol. A typeface with serifs is called a “serif typeface“. A typeface without serifs is called “sans serif”, or sans-serif, thanks to the French sans, means “without”. Therefore sans serif translates to “without tiny lines”. Sometimes you will here someone refer to a sans-serif typeface as “Grotesque” or “Gothic”. Serif typefaces can be referred to as “Roman”.

26. Illustrated by Phillip Im

27. Frankenstein (Chopin Script)
Typeface Pairing
Frankenstein (Chopin Script)
Mary Shelly (Castellar)

28. Typeface Pairing

29. How To Get Started
Challenge - Create a book cover for a classic story that illustrates your own understanding of the tale.
Step 1 – Work on final artwork
Step 2 – Research typeface pairing’s you’d like to use for your Title & Author
Step 3 – Studio Time
Step 4 – Next Class

30. Agenda – Session 4/5 Final Edits for book cover Scan Artworks
Incorporate Text using Photoshop
Studio Time
Next Lesson

31. Questions to ask yourself
Does the chosen typeface visually match the mood of my reinterpretation of the story?
Is the placement of my Title and Author balanced with the artwork?

32. How To Get Started
Challenge - Create a work of art that expresses their reaction to an emotional experience of choice.
Step 1 – Make any final edits
Step 2 – Scan in artwork
Step 3 – Photoshop typeface pairing for Title/Author
Step 4 – Save File > final image (.png) to Mr. Phillip

33. Criteria This Book Because worksheet
Compositional sketches (3 minimum)
Final piece depicts written portion from worksheet
PQP
Group Critique participation