Research Time!

Define!

Series: Is a group or a number of related or similar things, event, etc., arranged or occurring in some sort of succession or order.

Sequence: Is a serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern

Sign: Is a object, word, or anything that has meaning
For Example: putting up two fingers means peace.

Icon: Something that represents the subject it emulates.
A picture of a stoplight means a stoplight

Index: A directly audible, visible, smellable, touchable, something that correlates with and implies to something of interest.
for example: a picture of a donkey, for democrat.

Symbol: Are easily taken from context and are closely associated with large sets of other words.
For example: a bmxer would likely say GNARLY when see a LARGE trick thrown down. even though gnarly doesnt mean big trick.

What makes an awesome bookjacket????
well, an awesome book jacket has a style or content that directly relates to the content inside of the book,
but also entices the reader to want to read the book because of visual interest.








MY BOOKS!

I decided to go crazy and do 3 photographers, artists books.
The first being the world famous Ansel Adams : The American Wilderness
In second place, Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature
and lastly but not leastly, Alex MacLean Visualizing Destiny

INFO TIME!

Ansel Adams: Ansel is a god in the photo world and to this day is considered one of the best. He is well known for his beautfiuly tonal black and white images of the amazing United States landscape that still exists this day. He shot locations like Half Dome and Yosemite, The Grand Tetons and many many more. His work was left on the Voyager spacecraft, the craft that was sent out into space to be intercepted by possible alien life. ITS THAT GOOD. His legacy has many followers and he is revered as one of the best of all time to ever grace a camera.

Andy Goldsworthy: Is a British sculptor, photographer and enviormentalist. His work is specific to the site, and he only uses natural organic found objects at that specific location and uses nothing but what natures provides him to build his sculptures. THATS RIGHT! NO TOOLS!. His work is beautiful, amazing and down right jaw dropping. It is sometimes a permanent sculpture, but mostly his work is very temporary because of the elemental forces at the site. They are photographed and then left to degrade.

Alex MacLean: an American Born photographer who specializes in aerial photos. His work is full of pattern, and line. It is a perspective rarely seen and it is beautiful.He became interested in aerial scenery while he studied community planning and got a flight permit in 1975. Since then he has flown around America and the world in his Cessna 182 taking pictures and he has become a renowned aerial photographer. His pictures that portray both natural and man-made landscapes have been on display in numerous exhibitions and books.

For the covers and flaps i would really love to break everything down and simplify it. I want to add a bit of the author and and his work to give each cover its own flare. And these are all photo books, so for added challenge, i would prefer NOT to use any photos on them, but however, i would recreate their work in some sort of fashion.

Book 1.I would love to feature the black and white style of ansel in his work. I would really want to re make some of his photos in sort of a stencil sort of filter form. break the whole thing down into layers and simplify everything. i would like the lettering to be white, and have a glossy sky. however that could happen.

Book 2. andy goldsworthy is all about the nature, and he uses awesome patterns. so once a gain a bold black cover, but use a gradient and slowly leak in color. and maybe finish it with just ONE full color leaf or stick or something that stands out. he makes chains out of leaves and i want that to kind of play around the flap and back.

Book 3. Alex maclean does some really cool shots that show crazy patterns with cars and trees and nature from sky view. i would like this book perhaps be white, but black is still strong in my mind. and i would like use the aerial shots to show scale and make cool shadows and patterns on the cover that bleed over the flap and go all over the book. maybe the text and the pattern can be put together some how.

WORD LIST.

contrasting range seperated nighttime twilight dark inactive grim subdued beautiful graceful
elegant expensive valuable shiny glistening showy mysterious cryptic simple suave seamless
ironed streamlined rough bland velvety flat sharp monotone matte inactive natural artificial
earthy life like raw instinctual abstract concrete east west retro futuristic vintage handmade home made
machine made well conducted reformed arranged methodical structured organized light rural urban trash INSPIRING

Contrasting: opposition or juxtaposition of different forms, lines, or colors in a work of art to intensify each element's properties and produce a more dynamic expressiveness.

Twilight:the soft, diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon, either from daybreak to sunrise or, more commonly, from sunset to nightfall

Beautiful:having beauty; having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind

Elegant: gracefully refined and dignified, as in tastes, habits, or literary style

Mysterious:of obscure nature, meaning, origin, etc.; puzzling; inexplicable

Simple: easy to understand, deal with, use, etc

Monotone: sameness of tone or color, sometimes to a boring degree.

Natural: happening in the ordinary or usual course of things, without the intervention of accident, violence, etc.

Life-Like:resembling or simulating real life

Inspiring: to animate, as an influence, feeling, thought, or the like, does

Tone:
I want my books to have a Bold, Elegant, Collectable sort of feel to them. I want the to be Serious and show Quality.
I want the reader to say wow, thats a nice book before they even know what the book is. And then they should want to keep that book forever, not just because of the content inside. im talkin a high class cover here.

To suggest LIST

i want.....
To suggest there is beauty in nature
To suggest simplicity is beautiful
To suggest perspective is always key
To suggest that art is valuable
To suggest good design
To suggest getting lost in nature
To suggest looking at things differently in the world

Quotes and Songs and AWESOMENESS!

Coheed and Cambria-Mother Superior-Song
" Your time has come to pick the road you walk in the tale"

Tupac Shakur- Poem- The Rose that Grew From the Concrete
"Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared."

August Rush Soundtrack- Moondance- Song-Harmonica
"Well its a marvelous night for a moondance, with the stars and the glow in your eyes"
also definitely worth mentioning that the harmonica playing in the background is awesome and very inspiring

Blindside-Roads-Song
"Been riding in the sunset, ignoring what follows after beauty, fades to black now"

Flight of the Conchords-Jenny-Comedy Sketch
"We jut looked out across the city form our little spot on the hilltop,. Its so pretty from way up here. we talked about how the lights from the buildings and cars, seemed like reflections of the stars, that shined out so pretty and bright that night"
For being a really goofy pair of guys, this excerpt is actual quite beautiful, and i really like it.

The Raconteurs-Many Shades of Black-Song
Just the title really inspired me, i really want gradients and multiple shades of black

Ray Charles-Georgia on My Mind-Song
Very inspiring, it makes you want to meet the lady Georgia, and go visit the state Georgia, i want that same effect with my covers.

Chandrasekar Koneru-The Night Sky- Poem
"The vast spread of darkness that speaks of mystery, the darkness reveals the beauty that lies beneath..."

Gaelic Mantra-
" I know that i am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. let our souls be mountains, let our spirits be stars, let our hearts be worlds"

Alicia Keys-So Simple-Song
The song itself has no inspiration for me about my covers other than the title, but rather what Alicia Keys represents what i like, she is beautiful, her music is beautiful, and her style is simple. thats all i want in my designs.