Process Book for Book Jacket Redesign Project by Colleen Ireland

COLLEEN IRELAND BOOK COVER COLLECTION TYPOGRAPHY 2 Michael Selby 11:30-2:20

CONCEPT STATEMENT An enlightening series that uncovers how the past affects the present and future of three wartime adolescents.

TO SUGGEST LIST 1.

a sense of wonder

2. a relevance to the past/future 3. wartime feeling 4. vintage appeal 5. dark and gloomy/cloudy/unclear 6. reds and blacks for drama and connection to the wars/death/evil 7. focus on the mind/thoughts/dreams 8. sense of sophistication while still appealing to a younger audience 9. knitty/gritty 10. the idea of change/adjustmen/and loss 11. use of key symbols in the books-- the tree, river, books, Death, closet door-but in a simple way 12. focus on the titles of the books opposed to the authors 13. sense of togetherness of certain characters and how they relied on their companions 14. forward movement

ASSOCIATED WORD LIST Descriptive Words 1. dramatic 2. emotional 3. contraversy 4. friendship 5. comradery 6. vicious 7. playful 8. depressing 9. adventurous 10. daring 11. sad 12. mischeivous 13. tearful 14. empathetic 15. tragic 16. war 17. difficult 18. strenuous 19. manual 20. heartfelt 21. mean 22. cruel 23. serious 24. athletic 25. romance

26. love 27. family 28. caring 29. malicious 30. suave 31. controling 32. authority 33. ruling 34. overpowering 35. confined 36. reading 37. bombs 38. fire 39. burn 40. learning 41. understanding 42. cold 43. depraved 44. wet 45. gas 46. scarry 47. fearful 48. afraid 49. hiding 50. reading

51. religion 52. sacrifice 53. fortitude 54. genocide 55. extermination 56. impoverishment 57. bloody 58. evil 59. power 60. insightful 61. racist 62. unfair 63. cloudy 64. gray 65. dark 66. rough 67. melancholy 68. heavy hearted 69. distressing 70. worrisome 71. gloomy 72. sinister 73. grim 74. envious 75. perceptive

Key Words Defined • tragic- extremely mournful, melancholy, or pathetic: a tragic plight. dreadful, calamitous, disastrous, or fatal: a tragic event. • controlling- to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command. • confined- unable to leave a place because of illness, imprisonment • deprived- marked by deprivation; lacking the necessities of life, as adequate food and shelter: a deprived childhood. • fearful- feeling fear, dread, apprehension, or solicitude • sacrifice- to surrender or give up, or permit injury or disadvantage to, for the sake of something else. • unfair- not fair; not conforming to approved standards, as of justice, honesty, or ethics • cloudy- murky, lowering, shadowy, gloomy, depressing. 5. murky, turbid, muddy, opaque, shadowy. • melancholy- a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression. • perceptive- having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition

TONE GRAPHS traditional

futuristic

contemporary

vintage

serious

playful

realistic

fantasy

vibrant

muted

youthful

grown up

busy

simplistic

warm colors

contrasting

dramatic

cold colors

monochromatic

dull

AUDIENCE PERSONA Sarah Matthews is a seventh grader at Merrieview Middle School in Fort Riley, KS. She wakes up at 6am monday through friday and her mom drives her to school and she has class until 3pm. She doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like english class because even tough she likes to read, she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like being told what she has to read and when. She likes history class and even though she has a hard time keeping dates straight, she likes hearing about stories of the past and how times have changed. Then every MWF she has soccer practice after school, and on weekends and in her spare time she helps her mom around the house, annoys her older brother, or goes to the mall with her friends.

ROUGH CONCEPT STATEMENTS/REFINEMENTS A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb These wartime novels bring to light the life changing experiences of three young adults in hostile times and shows the relation of the past, present, and future. War does not determine who is right - only who is left. ~Bertrand Russell Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. Will Durant Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s much too painful. Edmund H. North In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. Winston Churchill If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything. ~H.G. Wells, Things to Come

SERIES vs. SEQUENCE SEQUENCE- something that follows; a subsequent event; result; consequence. SERIES- a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession; sequence. So essentially, a SERIES is a group of related things ordered into a SEQUENCE.

RESEARCH 1. A SEPERATE PEACE 2. John Knowles (September 16, 1926 – November 29, 2001)[1] was an American novelist best known for his novel A Separate Peace. He died in 2001 at the age of seventy-five. He attended St. Peter’s High School[disambiguation needed ] in Fairmont, West Virginia from 1940 until 1942, before continuing at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, graduating in 1945. He married Beth Anne Dyment Hughes at the age of 19. Knowles graduated from Yale University as a member of the class of 1949. 3. A Separate Peace; a novel, London, Secker & Warburg, 1959; New York, Macmillan Co., 1960 Morning in Antibes; a novel, New York, Macmillan, 1962 Double Vision; American Thoughts Abroad, New York, Macmillan, 1964 Indian Summer, New York, Random House, 1966 Phineas; six stories, New York, Random House, 1968 4. a young man returns to the prep school he attended as a child, and relives a year of his youth where he struggled with himself and with his best friend, Finny, in the process of groing up and finding himself. He relives the year he spent basically competing with his best friend who seems to exceed at everything, and eventually his jealousy reaches the point where he makes Finny fall out of a tree, which eventually leads to his death. He has to look at himself and live with the person that he became. 5. jealousy, shame, deceit, friendship, comradery, youthful, naive, intellectual, thoughtful, conscience, right and wrong, wonder, decisive 6. That in life we make choices, and we have to deal with the consequences of said choices. The messages also deals with the ideas of right and wrong, and how we sometimes can have a twisted view of which is which. 7. The protagonist, Gene, cruelly punishes his best friend out of spite and jealousy, and eventually is the cause of his death. 10. All of the book covers I’ve seen for this book are uncreative. They all involve a simple picture of a boy standing in front of some type of prep school background. There are a lot of themes in this book that can be turned into imagery as well as type based design.

1. THE DEVIL”S ARITHMETIC 2. Jane Yolen (born February 11, 1939) is an American author and editor of almost 300 books. These include folklore, fantasy, science fiction, and children’s books. Yolen was born in New York City and raised in California, Virginia, and New York. Her father was a journalist and publicist. She received her bachelor’s degree from Smith College in 1960 and her master’s degree in education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1976. 3. OVER 300 Dragon’s Blood (1982) Heart’s Blood (1984) A Sending of Dragons (1987) Dragon’s Heart (2009) “Lost Girls” (1998 novelette, Nebula Award winner) 4. a historical novel written by American author Jane Yolen and published in 1988. The book is about Hannah, a Jewish girl who lives in New Rochelle, New York. During a Passover Seder, Hannah is transported back in time to 1942 Poland, during World War II, where she is sent to a Nazi concentration camp and learns the importance of knowing about the past. 5. depressing, dreamy, serious, emotional, sensitive, scary, hopeless, unhappy, exhausting, fearful, descriptive, historical, overbearing, struggle, crouded 6. the message is that many people today, expecially the younger generation, doesn’t completely realize just how monumental of a time that the Holocaust was in world history. It didn’t just happen, it effected everyone involved for the rest of their lives, and became a part of them that couldn’t be truely understood unless you personally experienced it as they did. 9. -You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya--life--to me.” -We all have such stories. It is a brutal arithmetic. But I - I am alive. You are alive. As long as we breathe, we can see and hear. As long as we can remember, all those gone before are alive inside us.” -“But as the scissors snip-snapped through her hair and the razor shaved the rest, she realized with a sudden awful panic that she could no longer recall anything from the past. I cannot remember, she whispered to herself. I cannot remember. She’s been shorn of memory as brutally as she’d been shorn of her hair, without permission, without reason... Gone, all gone, she thought again wildly, no longer even sure what was gone, what she was mourning.” 10. all of the covers that I have seen are extremely outdated, and this was a very insighful book, but looking at the covers I have seen, I wouldn’t be tempted to pick this book up on my own had I seen it in a bookstore.

1. THE BOOK THIEF 2. By Mark Zusak (born 23 June 1975) is an Australian author. He is best known for his books The Book Thief and The Messenger (published in USA as I Am the Messenger), which have been international bestsellers. In 2005, The Book Thief was released and is now translated into over 30 languages. As well as receiving awards in Australia and overseas, The Book Thief has held the number one position at Amazon.com, the New York Times bestseller list, as well as in Brazil, Ireland and Taiwan. It has been in the top five in the UK, Spain, Israel and Korea, and is still set to be released in many other territories. 3. -The Messenger -When Dogs Cry -Fighting Ruben Wolfe -The Underdog -Bridge of Clay 4. Narrated by Death, the book is set in Nazi Germany (a period when the narrator notes he was extremely busy.) It describes a young girl’s (named Liesel Meminger) relationship with her foster parents, Hans and Rosa, and the other residents of their neighborhood, and a Jewish fist-fighter who hides in her home during the escalation of World War II. 5. suspenseful, playful, youthful, satirical, unexpected, insightful, tense, retrospective, loving, emotional, historical, exciting, thrilling, educational 6. The message is that the world wars affected different people in different ways and there were several circumstances during the time period, other than the wars and the Holocaust, that were oppressive, but people still had to make it through in their own ways. 7. The protagonist is Leisl Meminger, a young girl who starts the book out dealing with her brothers death, having to lose her mother also when she is given to a new family, and has to cope with a struggling world and build a life in a new and scary place. She copes with this new experience in part through the luxury or learning to read, and even in such a rough time, this becomes one of her few loves. 9. Quotes by DEATH -He’d have been glad to witness her kissing his dusty, bomb hit lips. (37.11) - You are going to die. (1.6) - It kills me sometimes, how people die. (70.7) - Please believe me when I tell you that I picked up each soul that day as if it were newly born. […] I listened to their last, gasping cries. Their vanishing words. I watched their love visions and freed them from their fear. (52.15)

BOOK COVER INSPIRATION TYPE ONLY

TYPE and IMAGE

TYPE STUDIES 1494 Gutenberg Bibel

Alte Schwabacher OSF

Lucida Blackletter

THE BOOK THIEF -MARKUS ZUSAK

The Book Thief -Marcus Zusak

Clairvaux

Cloister Black

Fette Fraktur

THE BOOK THIEF -MARKUS ZUSAK

The Book Thief -Marcus Zusak

Galahad

KoriganITC

Linotext

THE BOOK THIEF -MARKUS ZUSAK

The Book Thief -Marcus Zusak

NeueHammerUnziale

San Marco

Textur

THE BOOK THIEF -MARKUS ZUSAK

The Book Thief -Marcus Zusak

The End

WilhelmKlingsporGotisch

ITC Bookman

THE BOOK THIEF -MARKUS ZUSAK

The Book Thief -Marcus Zusak

The Book Thief -Marcus Zusak Clarendon

Disturbance

The Book Thief -Marcus Zusak

THE BOOK THIEF -MARKUS ZUSAK

The Book Thief -Marcus Zusak

The Book Thief -Marcus Zusak The Book Thief -Marcus Zusak The Book Thief

The Book Thief -Marcus Zusak The Book Thief -Marcus Zusak

Lucida Handwriting THE BOOK THIEF -MARKUS ZUSAK The Book Thief -Marcus Zusak

FINAL FONT PAIRS The End/ NeueHammerUnziale

Clairvaux/ Disturbance

Lucida Handwriting/ Galahad

THE BOOK THIEF -MARKUS ZUSAK

THE BOOK THIEF

-MARKUS ZUSAK

THE BOOK THIEF -MARKUS ZUSAK

The Book Thief

The Book Thief -Marcus Zusak

-Marcus Zusak

COLOR PALETTES

VISUALS

FIRST COVER STUDIES Handmade prints made contemporary through color and type choices

Combination of past and present through use of old type styles and very graphically rendered imagery.

Relation of past/present/future through the use of split imagery.

DEVILâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ARITHMETIC THE

A young girl awakens to the brutal realities of the past when she herself is forced to live in the tragic time.

JANE YOLEN

A SEPERATE PEACE Childish antics and jealousy escalate with two young prep school boys in wartime to a war of their own.

JOHN KNOWLES

THE

BOOK THIEF

A girl that loses everything, struggles to find meaning and start a new life in a time of death and tragedy.

MARK ZUSAK

Handmade prints made contemporary through color and type choices

A SEPERATE PEACE JOHN KNOWLES

THE BOOK THIEF

MARK ZUSAK

THE DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC JANE YOLEN

Combination of past and present through use of old type styles and very graphically rendered imagery.

THE

BOOK DEVILâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PEACE THIEF ARITHMETIC SEPERATE

FIRST REFINEMENTS

REFINEMENTS 2

INITIAL BOOK JACKETS JOHN KNOWLES, who died in 2001, was the author of seven novels, a book on travel, and a collection of stories. He was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University, as well as a recipient of the William Faulkner Award and the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

“I think it’s the best-written, bestdesigned, and most moving novel I have read in many years. Beginning with a tiny incident among ordinary boys, it ends by being as deep and as bid as evil itself.” -AUBREY MENEN

Set at a boys’ boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Seperate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.

A Bestseller for more than thirty years, A Seperate Peace is John Knowles’s crowning achiecement and an undisputed American classic.

Childish antics and jealousy escalate with two young prep school boys in wartime to a war of their own.

“A masterpiece.”

-NATIONAL REVIEW

“A model of restraint, deeply felt and beautifully written.” -THE OBSERVER

Two days after Jane Yolen’s father died, she learned that his real name had been Wolf, not Will- he had changed it to make it sound more American. “Another instance,” she says, “of forgetting the past, which so many immigrant families are prone to.

Hannah wonders why she has to spend every Jewish holiday with her relatives, listening to family histories and her grandfather’s extreme responses to any mention of the Holocaust. The stories bore her; she doesn’t want to remember the past.

JANE YOLEN is the author of more than 100 books, including Children of the Wolf. She lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts.

But that evening at the Passover Seder, as Hannah opens the door to symbolically welcome the prophet Elijah, she suddenly finds herself in an unfamiliar world. Gradually she realizes it is the world of a Polish shtetl, a Jewish village, in the 1940’s. But why is she there, and who is “Chaya” that everyone seems to think she is? Soon Hannah starts to forget everything but her new life as Chaya. And then Nazi soldiers take Chaya and her family away to a death camp, a place of unthinkable horrors. If she does survive, Hannah will never again have to ask why we must remember- for she herself will never forget.

A young girl awakens to the brutal realities of the past when she herself is forced to live in the tragic time.

Narrated by Death, The Book Thief is set in Nazi Germany. It describes a young girl’s (named Liesel Meminger) relationship with her foster parents, Hans and Rosa, and the other residents of their neighborhood, and a Jewish fist-fighter who hides in her home during the escalation of World War II.

HERE’S A SMALL FACT: YOU ARE GOING TO DIE. 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier.

MARKUS ZUSAK is the author of five books. His first three books, The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe and When Dogs Cry, released between 1999 and 2001, were all published internationally and garnered a number of awards. In 2005, The Book Thief was released and is now translated into over 30 languages. As well as receiving awards in Australia and overseas, The Book Thief has held the number one position at Amazon.com, the New York Times bestseller list, as well as in Brazil, Ireland and Taiwan. It has been in the top five in the UK, Spain, Israel and Korea, and is still set to be released in many other territories.

Liesel, a nine year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her Parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall. ____________________________________________

SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION: THIS NOVEL IS NARRATED BY DEATH it’s a story, about: a girl * an acordianist * some fanatical Germans * a Jewish fist fighter * and quite a lot of thievery ____________________________________________

ANOTHER THING YOU SHOULD KNOW: Death will visit THE BOOK THIEF three times.

”My children have Hebrew names as well as English ones. They identify themselves as Jews. But other than a couple of Bar Mitzvahs and a Seder or two, they know little about it. We are a typical blended American family, a product of dis-memorification we so highly prize. But some things should not be forgotten. The Holocaust is one of them.

A girl that loses everything, struggles to find meaning and start a new life in a time of death and tragedy.

FINAL BOOK JACKETS A SEPERATE PEACE “I think it’s the bestwritten, best-designed, and most moving novel I have read in many years. Beginning with a tiny incident among ordinary boys, it ends by being as deep and as bid as evil itself.” -AUBREY MENEN JOHN KNOWLES, who died in 2001, was the author of seven novels, a book on travel, and a collection of stories. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University, and was a recipient of the William Faulkner Award and the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

Childish antics and jealousy escalate with two young prep school boys in wartime to a war of their own.

FINAL BOOK JACKETS THE DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC

Hannah wonders why she has to spend every Jewish holiday with her relatives, listening to family histories and her grandfather’s extreme responses to any mention of the Holocaust.

The stories bore her; she doesn’t want to remember the past. But that evening at the Passover Seder, as Hannah opens the door to symbolically welcome the prophet Elijah, she suddenly finds herself in an unfamiliar world. Gradually she realizes it is the world of a Polish shtetl, a Jewish village, in the 1940’s. But why is she there, and who is “Chaya” that everyone seems to think she is? Soon Hannah starts to forget everything but her new life as Chaya. And then Nazi soldiers take Chaya and her family away to a death camp, a place of unthinkable horrors.

If she does survive, Hannah will never again have to ask why we must remember- for she herself will never forget.

FINAL BOOK JACKETS THE BOOK THIEF

Narrated by Death, The Book Thief is set in Nazi Germany. It describes a young girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (named Liesel Meminger) relationship with her foster parents, Hans and Rosa, and the other residents of their neighborhood, and a Jewish fist-fighter who hides in her home during the escalation of World War II.

A girl that loses everything, struggles to find meaning and start a new life in a time of death and tragedy.

FINAL FONTS USED TITLES

LUCINDA BLACKLETTER SUBTEXT

NEWS GOTHIC AUTHORS

GALAHAD

PROJECT OVERVIEW The goal of this project was to successfully relay information about different books in a way that is clearly cohesive as well as modern. Book covers can be difficult to design because there is so much information provided in a single book, and when designing the book jacket, it is important to be decisive on what imagery and tone you bring into the design. Every element used is important and serves a purpose, whether you think so or not. The colors, images, type and layout all work together to bring a feeling and meaning to the design and they must be paid attention to and applied carefully.

PROJECT BLURB In designing the book covers for The Devilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Arithmetic, The Book Thief, and A Seperate Peace, I wanted to draw attention to the duality and idea of change involved in both. I wanted to give them a modern look, while not ignoring the historical background of each by using a combination of blackletter type and black and white pictures in combination with humanist type and graphically rendered shapes.