HW#2

Meg Holt ART333 Cladwell 28 Jan 2013 Reading #2 Response While reading Craig Mod’s Hack the Cover, I found myself thinking back to our first homework project, in which we explored the differences between three different photobooks and in doing so, treated the writing assignment as our first photobook attempts. Thinking that I was going to bring the physical form of my paper to class to hand in, instead of posting a digital version to the course site, I constructed an extremely minimal, lackluster cover for the wrong medium. Mod explains that three essential qualities to a successful digital cover include, but are not limited to, iconography, large typography, and boldness. My cover, on the other hand, lacks pictures, and incorporates a normally-oriented 12 pt. font. Fantastic. I cannot expect anyone to choose my digital photobook to peruse. But why would they? The icon will look like a blank, white rectangle.

Alternatively, my minimalist approach to the photobook is appropriate for my current prowess (or should I say lack thereof?). I chose to reject the use of pictures so that I could focus on the form of my textual information. After all, this was a written paper to be looked at as a photobook. Thus, I treated the text boxes as the pictures themselves. Now knowing that my assignment was going to be digitalized, I may have approached the “photobook” in a different way as to entice an audience. But then again, if book covers are dying, and the audience relies on the text on screen to decide what they choose to read, maybe I did not make such a huge mistake, after all. To be determined.