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The Cheese Monkeys Book Cover Design Tristina Meister April 8, 2015

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Once I finished the book I wrote a paragraph explaining what I thought the tone of the book was and my overall thoughts on the book.

Tristina Meister The Cheese Monkeys Analysis 3/29/15 I thought The Cheese Monkeys was fun and sarcastic. Before I started listening to the book I did not know what it was about, all I knew was it was called The Cheese Monkeys and the cover was very creatively put together. I quickly found out that the book had nothing to do with Cheese Monkeys, I learned that it was about an art student starting his freshman year. He was confronted with obsticals that every art student has to deal with in one way or another and met a very interesting girl along the way. Once he started his second semester he had a professor that was very hard and very blunt. This professor did things that were crazy, this is the point of the book that I really got interested. I related it to critques that I have been in and could not fathom having one of my professors critique my work in that way, let alone light it on fire. I really enjoyed listening to this book and found the casual, and personable tone very easy to understand and realate too. The fun and sarcastic tone also added more to the story, it made it feel more like a college student telling their story than an author writing about someone’s life.

Towards the end of the book was when I started to really see images and type that would go with the story. When they were getting ready for finals week I found it very realtable and that aweful fear of not getting it done or something happening and having to start over. I imidiately thought about the many cups of coee that I would have around me in this situation and how blank and dull my eyes would be. However for the type I was thinking somthing more fun and carefree to get across the casual and personable tone. By using this type of typography I plan to add a more casual tone to the horror of finals week. When they were talking about the lack of sleep and he said day 1, 48hours and so on I imidiatley thought of the words scrolling through my head as I stare blankly at the project in front of me, without actually see it.

Final Design

On the final design I changed the placement of ‘A novel in Two Semesters’ so it does not look like it is part of the other type I have on the page. I also changed the text on the back so the negative shape is not a strange looking.

I also made space to put the bar code on the bottom of the page.

Critique Two

Once I went through Critique One I realized my color choices for the cover I decided to go with gave the cover a dark feeling, which was not exactly what I was going for. I really wanted to portray the idea of being exhausted during finals week, without any sleep. I think the color choices for the revised book cover capture the feeling that I wanted for the book. The cheese color for the letters also give the book cover a nice contrast.

Front Matter

I took the front matter for The Cheese Monkeys and formatted it to a similar manner as the front cover. I did this so the theme would carry through the entire book.

The The Cheese Cheese Monkeys Monkeys

COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

Scribner 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10020. This book is a work of fiction.

Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Copyright Š 2001 by Charles Kidd. Yes, Charles. All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or part in any form. Scribner and design are registered trademarks of Macmillan Library Reference USA, Inc., used under license by Simon and Shuster, the publisher of this work. The author is deeply grateful to the Bogliasco Foundation for its generous support.

Book design by Chip Kidd, who wrote it in Quark 3.2. Text is set in Apollo and then, at a certain point, Bodoni. Cheese Monkeys logo designed by Mr. F.C. Ware. Manufactured in the United States of America. 13579108642 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available. ISBN 0-7432-1492-7.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Cheese Monkeys A novel in two semesters

By Chip Kidd Scribner New York London Toronto Sydney Singapore

xiv Prelude

Fall Semester 1957 2 - Registration 21 - ART 101: Introduction to Drawing (cont’d) 85 - Winter 57 Break

Spring Semester 1958 96 : ART 127: Introduction to Commercial art 115 : The first critique 149 : The second Critique 173 : The third critique 213 : The fourth critique 266 : The final exam

CHAPTER Section titleONE - Fall Semester 1957 Registration: During which we construct our course of study “So, What are you taking?”

At that point I could have said a lot of things—I could have said, “ If i don’t get the classes I need after waiting five hours in this line, I am taking that clipboard out of your sausage-fingered hands, breaking it into ten thick splinters, and slowly introducing each one of them beneath your cuticles as a way of saying Thanks for herding us like a flock of three thousand Guatemalan dirt pigs into a ventilation-free hall built for three hundred in order to ask us questions we’ve already answered so many times our minds are jelly and our jaws squeak — an act which has to be covered somewhere in the Bible as punishable by any manner we, in His righteous stead, see fit.”

But I didn’t.

I mumbled for the umpteenth time that year-long day of that first awful month, my tongue thick with shame, “me? Art.” Majoring in Art at the state university appealed to me because I have always hated Art, and I had a hunch if any school would treat the subject with the proper disdain, it would be one that was run by the government. Of course I was right.

My suspicions were confirmed the minute I entered the Visual Arts building on arrival my freshman year and took in the faculty show in its gallery. I beheld: melting lop-sided Umbrian? hillsides, nudes run over by the Cubist Express, suburban-surrealist flower ladies going about their daily tasks weeping blood tears the size of water gallons, and kittens. Yes, kittens. I thought, “Now these people hate Art a lot. This is where I belong. Perfect.”

The first set of pages is the format I chose the first time I did it. After critique I changed the format and made it cleaner and more interesting to look at. The second set of pages has more space and does not feel as cluttered. The typefaces have changed makeing it easier to read. The new typefaces I chose make the typefaces match better as well.

Copyright Š 2001 by Charles Kidd.

Yes, Charles.

Scribner 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10020.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously.

Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

The author is deeply grateful to the Bogliasco Foundation for its generous support. Book design by Chip Kidd, who wrote it in Quark 3.2. Text is set in Apollo and then, at a certain point, Bodoni.

Cheese Monkeys logo designed by Mr. F.C. Ware. Manufactured in the United States of America. 13579108642 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available.

All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or part in any form. Scribner and design are registered trademarks of Macmillan Library Reference USA, Inc., used under license by Simon and Shuster, the publisher of this work.

The Cheese Monkeys

ISBN 0-7432-1492-7.

The Cheese Monkeys A novel in two semesters

By Chip Kidd Scribner New York London Toronto Sydney Singapore

TABLE OF CONTENTS xiv Prelude

Fall Semester 1957 2

Registration

21

ART 101: Introduction to Drawing

57

ART 101: Introduction to Drawing (cont’d)

85

Winter Break

Spring Semester 1958 ART 127: Introduction to Commercial art

96

The first critique

115

The second Critique

149

The third critique

173

The fourth critique 266 : The final exam

213

1957

Fall Semester

CHAPTER Registration: DuringONE which we construct our course of study

“So, What are you taking?”

At that point I could have said a lot of things—I could have said, “ If i don’t get the classes I need after waiting five hours in this line, I am taking that clipboard out of your sausage-fingered hands, breaking it into ten thick splinters, and slowly introducing each one of them beneath your cuticles as a way of saying Thanks for herding us like a flock of three thousand Guatemalan dirt pigs into a ventilation-free hall built for three hundred in order to ask us questions we’ve already answered so many times our minds are jelly and our jaws squeak — an act which has to be covered somewhere in the Bible as punishable by any manner we, in His righteous stead, see fit.”

But I didn’t.

I mumbled for the umpteenth time that year-long day of that first awful month, my tongue thick with shame, “me? Art.” Majoring in Art at the state university appealed to me because I have always hated Art, and I had a hunch if any school would treat the subject with the proper disdain, it would be one that was run by the government. Of course I was right. My suspicions were confirmed the minute I entered the Visual Arts building on arrival my freshman year and took in the faculty show in its gallery. I beheld: melting lop-sided Umbrian? hillsides, nudes run over by the Cubist Express, suburban-surrealist flower ladies going about their daily tasks weeping blood tears the size of water gallons, and kittens. Yes, kittens. I thought, “Now these people hate Art a lot. This is where I belong. Perfect.”

So what did I like? Well, that spring of senior year at Upper Wissahicken High I

Critique One

After drawing 20 sketches for the book cover I chose three I thought were the best and drew them in more detail.

Sketches

After reading the book I drew 20 sketches of different ideas I thought would portray the tone of the book. I used different compositional ideas in some of the drawing and then changed the idea completely in others.

Inspiration

I looked at various different book covers for inspiration for the book cover I created. I found I liked looking at the book covers that have color and stand out on a shelf. The spine is crucial to this, if you cannot get the viewer to be attracted to the spine then they may move right over that book.