Book design

Scope and Content Note From the Series: The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...

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The purpose of this project was to design and edit a book of poetry and art, and to pay special attention to the process of collecting the work, choosing the order of the poems and artwork to create a flow... -- abstract.

Overview "The aim of this project was to repackage Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novels: 'The Secret Garden,' 'A Little Princess,' and 'Little Lord Fauntleroy.' I updated and designed all three books as a cohesive box set and additionally planned out and developed a layout for a board book version of 'The Secret Garden.' The purpose was to study how designers make decisions to repackage classics, what choices they make while designing new formats, and what demands different formats hold. This...

Overview "Sort Of, Almost is a book project completed to demonstrate proficiency in content creation and in book design best suited to house that content. The book uniquely showcases a manuscript layout with a dual focus on text and design. Pairing text with imagery, taking into consideration both compatibility of design and content, results in a publication with elements in successful dialogue with one another. Linking creative writing with abstract photograph manipulation adds depth to the reading...

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This project addresses the task of designing and branding a series of books. It considers the relationship between design and marketing, and identifies significant trends in book branding. Next, it outlines the decisions involved in selecting five manuscr

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For this project, I took a book of Zarma folktales from Niger and translated them from French into English, and then designed the interior and cover of the book. This paper includes the research on translation methods and theory that informed my own tran

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This thesis is a project to design the interiors and exteriors of four books that explore what a monster is in form, action, and emotion: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë; Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.