Design and produce a 5.5 x 8.5 B&W finished booklet with text/image on all pages, front and back. Step 1: Acquire the digital text of a fiction book chapter or short story of at least 1500 words. You must also get a short (paragraph length) biography of the writer(s). In addition, collect imagery (digital or flat art) related to reading and literature. Due: Monday, July 28. Step 2: Design template for opening spread of story and subsequent text pages. Set up style sheets for (at least): 1) Headline/title, 2) Byline (author), 3) Bio, 4) Opening paragraph, 5) Body copy, 6) Folios. Due: Tuesday, July 29. Step 3: Rough design for cover, inside front cover, and table of contents. Set up style sheets for: 1) Cover subhead A, 2) Cover subhead B, 3) TOC headline, 4) TOC subhead, 5) TOC items, 6) TOC blurb, 7) TOC masthead. Due: Wednesday, July 30.
Step 4: Develop these aspects of piece:
Cover (over full bleed image):
[masthead design] Bit O’ Lit
Books: a bit at a time
Volume 1, Number 8
August 4, 2008
Free
Table of Contents (TOC) text:
Book excerpts
[your selection/author]
[another student’s selection/author]
[another student’s selection/author]
[another student’s selection/author]
Articles
Getting kids to read
Booknews
Reviews
Word wit
For additional articles, reviews, news, and information , go to: www.Bit-O-Lit.com
Bit O’ Lit is a book magazine designed to conveniently introduce new books to readers. It is distributed free every other week on Mondays. Look for it in vending boxes at select Metro stops and online. Contact us at contact@bit-o-lit.com
[TOC masthead]
Shannon MacDonald: publisher
Emma FitzGerald: editor
Matthew Spieler: assistant editor
[your name]: graphic design
Casey helig and Maxwell Wimmer: publishing assistants
Printed by Incunabula Press, Ottmar, Virginia
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Inside cover/facing page:
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Story spread:
Left hand page: title in ‘expressive’ typographic treatment
Author’s name (byline)
Blurb about story
Begin story text on right hand page
Final booklet due: Tuesday, August 5, 8:30 am.
3 responses so far ↓
alejandra santaolalla // July 25, 2008 at 7:57 pm |
hey Kenneth,
Just to double check, you said you didnt’ want any images in the JPG format, so after scanning the images, which format would like us to save it as?
Alesia Upton // July 30, 2008 at 12:25 am |
I didn’t know how technical scanning pictures was, it seems intense so here’s a thought if we scan a large picture do we still have to do the same process for a smaller picture?
kennethfg // July 30, 2008 at 12:35 am |
I’m not sure what you’re referring to with “same process,” whether you mean simply scanning an image or doing the test process I outlined this morning. However, in both cases the answer is yes.