Sequence:the following of one thing after another; succession.
Sign: Stimulus pattern that has meaning icon
Visual: portrait of a face
Verbal: bark (a word resembling what it sounds like)
Verbal: bark (a word resembling what it sounds like)
Symbol: something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign
Visual: Bald eagle, for USA
Verbal: the way you say something
Index: is a sensory feature ( directly, visibly, audible, smellable, etc).
Visual: a stop light tells you that you should stop your car.
Verbal: oven beeping at you, saying that your cookies are finished.
To me there are a couple things that make a successful book jacket:
1. the way you handle your type treatment, either working with your visual element or working on its own. Some way i think the photo, and type should interact with each other on the page.
2. I think that if you are working on a subject matter that interest you, there is a very high chance of success. Good writing helps a designer put out a great outcome in a design.
3.Avoid being literal, i think that if you make the reader think about the message you are trying to portray rather that say what you are saying in black and white, makes the reader engaged more. I know when i read books the first thing i look at is the cover, and after i am finished reading the book, i always ask myself this question " why did this author decide to have this be their cover page design".
Here are a 5 books that i find successful:
The three books that I'm going to be redesigning are:Night
With a new preface by the author
author: Elie Wiesel
Auschwitch and After
Author: Charlotte Delbo
Eyewitness Auschwitz
Three years in the gas chambers
Author:Flilip Muller
The genre that i have chosen is the Holocaust. The first book that i chose was Night. This book is about a teenager named Elie Wiesel. Him and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. This book is a terrifying record of Eli Wiesel's (the author) memories of death of his family. This new translation by his wife, Morion Wiesel, corrects important detail and presents the most accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiese's testimony to what happened in the camps and his unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again.
About the author:
Elie Wiesel is the author of more than forty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and non fiction. He has been awarded the presidential Medal of freedom, the United States pf America congressional Gold Medal, the French legion of Horror, and in 1986, the Nobel Peace Prize.
The next book is called Eyewitness Auschwitz; three years in the gas chambers. Filip Muller came to Auschwitch with on the the earliest transports from Slovakia in April 1942 and began working in the gassing installation and crematoria in May. He was still alive when the gassing ceased in November 1944. He saw multiple come and disappear; by sheer luck he survived. Muller is a source; one of few prisoners who saw the Jewish people die and lived to tell about it. Eyewitness Auschwitz is thus one of the key documents of the Holocaust.
About the Author:
Filip was born in 1922 in sered, Czechoslovakia. He was deported to Auschwitz in April 1942, where he was assigned prisoner number 29236. He worked as a prisoner in the Sonderkommando until the evacuation of the camp in January 1945 and was liberated in May 1945. Afterward he was unable to work until 1953 when he became an author is Prague.
The last book is titled Auschwitz and after. This is a memoir of life in the concentration camps and afterwards. This book includes Vignettes, poems, and a prose poem that speak eloquently of horror, heroism, and conscience.
About the Author:
Charlotte Delbo (1913 - 1985)ch female resistance leader, a non Jew who became important literary figure in postwar France. Among this book she is an author of many essays. Her masterpiece is the trilogy Aushwitz and After. Charlotte was a professor of theatre at Sarah Lawrence College and a very active, frequently published theater critic.
Associated word List:
catastrophe devastation extinction pain humiliation slaughter weak tired fear death hope soup bread dark labor cold separation prayer rough beatings guns hanging uniform restless scars scraps bunks night camp gas escape captured survivor lonely rescue sick skinny territory quiet suffocation sad rhythmic flames mud snow kill petrified anger numbers trembling
catastrophe:a final event or conclusion, usually an unfortunate one; a disastrous end
devastation:to lay waste; render desolate, to overwhelm
pain:physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
weak:not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail
death:the act of dying; the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism
labor:exert one's powers of body or mind; work; toil.
survivor:a person who continues to function or prosper in spite of opposition, hardship, or setbacks
suffocation:to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle. discomfort
petrified:to benumb or paralyze with astonishment, horror, or other strong emotion
anger:a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire.
TONE:
Serious Relaxed
Informative Joyful
Fiction Nonfiction
Organic High tech
machine made Hand-made
traditional nontraditional
complex easy
happy sad
gain lose
To Suggest:
To suggest hard times that were hated by everyone
To suggest the people who survived
To suggest the organization of the camps
To suggest pain
To suggest time of darkness
To suggest wanting to go back to the way things used to be
To suggest separation from loved ones
To suggest stories that are too horrible to comprehend
Quotes about the holocaust:
My mother
she was hands and a face
They made our mothers strip in front of us
Here mothers are no longer mothers to their children
All were marked on their are with an indelible number
all were destined to die naked
The tattoos identified the dead men the dead women
The chimney smokes. The sky is low. Smoke sweeps across the camp weighing upon us and enveloping us with the odor of burning flesh
This was the first time we have seen her laugh
None of us was meant to return
"Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander." — Yehuda Bauer
~ It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.
" Left right left right"
" One day when i was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite was. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. Fro the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me".
" At six o'clock that afternoon, the first American tank stood at the gates".
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