the fault in our stars process
assignment:
This assignment was to choose a book, whose cover could use improvement, and re-design the whole book jacket, the inside pattern and the first page of the book. Luckily for me, I recently read author John Green’s newest book, The Fault in Our Stars. It is an amazing book about teenagers living and dying with cancer, the people around them that it effects, and finding a silver lining within in all.
research: book cover inspiration To get us ready for designing our own book jackets, we researched different books we liked and also went more in depth in our books to get some ideas about places, objects and characters we could use as covers.
research: book cover inspiration
research: book cover inspiration
research: book cover inspiration
research: book cover inspiration
research: book cover inspiration
research: Hazel Grace +“Then we introduced ourselves; Name. Age. Diagnosis. And how we’re doing today. I’m Hazel, I’d say when they’d get to me. Sixteen. Thyroid orginally but with an impressive and long-settled satellite colony in my lungs. And I’m doing okay.” (5) +“I went to Support Group for the same reason that I’d once allowed nurses with a mere eighteen monts of graduate education to poison me with exotically named chemicals: I wanted to make my parents happy.”(7) +“I pretended to fiddle with my oxygen tank for a second just to kill time...The cylindrical green tank only weighed a few pounds, and I had this little steel cart to wheel it around behind me. It delivered two liters of oxygen to me each minute through a cannula, a transparent tube that split just beneath my neck, wrapped behind my ears, and then reunited in my nostrils. The contraption was necessary because my lungs sucked at being lungs.” (8) +“I was wearing old jeans, which has once been tight but now sagged in weird places, and a yellow t-shirt advirtising a band i didn’t even like anymore. Also, my hair: I had this pageboy haircut, and i hadn’t even bothered to like brush it. Furthermore, I had ridicuously fat chipmunked cheeks, a side effect of treatment. I looked like a normal person with a balloon for a head.” (9) +Protagonist
+critical
+We like her
+loving
+loves Augustus
+suprising
+realist
+grim
+depressed
+dying
+sarcastic
+careful
+witty
+committed
+guilty
+warm
+sick
+caring
+curious
+strong
+smart +humerous +pretty
research: Augustus Waters +“A boy was staring at me.” “I was quite sure I’d never seen him before. Long and leanly muscular, he dwarfed the molded plastic elementary school chair he was sitting in. Mahogany hair, straight and short. He looked my age, maybe older, and he sat with his tailbone against the edge of the chair, his posture aggressively poor, one hand half in a pocket of dark jeans.” (9) +“He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smokey, and dead sexy. ‘My name is Augustus Waters,’ he said. ‘I’m seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I’m just here today at Isaac’s request.” +“He walked past me, his shoulders filling out his green knit polo shirt, his back straight, his steps lilting just slightly to the right as he walked steady and confident on what I had determined was a prosthetic leg. Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out.” +(After Hazel just freaked out on him for pulling out a cigarette) “‘They don’t kill you unless you light them,’ he said as Mom arrived at the curb. ‘And I’ve never lit one. It’s a metaphore, see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.’” (20) +Protagonist
+dying
+yes we like him
+loving
+in love with Hazel
+warm
+strong
+obnoxious
+charasmatic
+passionate
+quick
+optimist
+talented
+attached
+funny
+needy
+handsome
+curious
+surprising
+determined
+smart
+disabled
+survivor
research: Support Group “Support group, of course, was depressing as hell. It met every Wednesday in the basement of a stone-walled Episcopal church shaped like a cross. We all sat in a circle right in the middle of the cross, where the two boards would have met, where the heart of Jesus would have been.” (4) “Then we were out of Jesus’ heart and in the parking lot, the spring air just on the cold side of perfect, the late- afternoon light heavenly in its hurtfulness.” (18)
+dark
+ghastly
+depressing
+family
+ironic
+soul
+fake
+heart
+surprising
+basement
+helpful
+stone
+glum
+religious
+moody
Outside it is...
+competitive
+refreshing
+death
+perfect
+life
+blue skys
+cancer
+suburban
+sickness
+manicured lawns
+recovery +sullen +hurt +support +tennagers +touched +pale
research: About the Author John Green is the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, and The Fault in Our Stars. He is also the coauthor, with David Levithan, of Will Grayson, Will Grayson. He was 2006 recipient of the Michael L. Printz Award, a 2009 Edgar Award winner, and has twice been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Green’s books have been published in more than a dozen languages. Green’s book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review and Booklist, a wonderful book review journal where he worked as a publishing assistant and production editor while writing Looking for Alaska. Green grew up in Orlando, Florida before attending Indian Springs School and then Kenyon College.
research: 45 sketches To kick things off, we roughly sketched out ideas for just the covers of our book jackets. To ensure that all ideas would be covered, our assigment was split into 15 ideas about objects in the book, 15 sketches about places in the book, and 15 sketches of characters in the book.
research: 45 sketches
research: 45 sketches
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research: title ideas these are just some rough ideas for titles that everyone did in class.
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first round: 18 computer covers In class, we went through all of our 45 sketches, and from that critique, we chose 18 that we wanted to mock up on the computer. These are still cover ideas.
first round: 18 computer covers
first round: 18 computer covers
first round: 18 computer covers
first round: 18 computer covers
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first round: 18 computer covers
first round: 9 first pages
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The other part to this assignment was to redesign the first page of the book. we started out with 9 different compositions of what they could look like.
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Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed
I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.
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first round: 9 first pages
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I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and
devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.
john green
my mother decided I was depressed, presumably
my mother decided I was depressed, presumably
because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of
because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of
time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate
time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate
infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abun-
infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abun-
dant free time to thinking about death.
dant free time to thinking about death.
Whenever you read a cancer booklet
Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
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Late in the winter of my seventeenth year,
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or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
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first round: 9 first pages
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Late in the winter of my seventeenth year,
my mother decided I was depressed, presumably
because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was de-
time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate
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pressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed,
infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abun-
read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my
dant free time to thinking about death.
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was de-
abundant free time to thinking about death.
pressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed,
read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my
abundant free time to thinking about death.
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second round: 9 refinements After a round of small group critiques, 18 cover designs were widdled down to 9 full book jackets, minus the inside patters.
second round: 9 refinements
second round: 9 refinements
second round: 9 refinements
second round: 9 refinements
third round: 5 refinements From the 9 rounds, we went down to the top 5 ideas. With these ideas, we then had to add a pattern that would go on the inside of the book jacket.
third round: 5 refinements
third round: 5 refinements
third round: 5 refinements
third round: 5 refinements
fourth round: 3 refinements These three were picked from the 5 before. These would be the final choices, but there would still be refinements done to them. This includes the full jacket, the pattern on the back, and the first page. chapter one Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed
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fourth round: 3 refinements Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed,
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presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death. Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. 3
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Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was de-
pressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot
of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and
devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.
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fifth round: 3 refinements chapter one
the fault in our stars john green
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death. Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
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fifth round: 3 refinements
chapter one Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed
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fifth round: 3 refinements
chapter 1
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was de-
pressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot
of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and
devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.
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sixth round: finals I am really happy with how my finals turned out. I have never done anything like this before, but I really enjoyed it. I have always loved just having books around, and being able to design them was amazing.
the fault in our stars john green chapter one
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death. Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
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sixth round: finals
chapter one Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed.
the fault in our stars john green
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sixth round: finals
chapter 1
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was
depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot
of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and
devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.
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