Hello!

DUE POSTERS – Everyone was supposed to send me a final PDF of your final poster over the week – thank you to all whose posters I did receive. Your hard work is noted and appreciated!
-> Unless I gave you permission to submit to me later, posters are to be printed on 12×18″ card stock paper with crop marks
-> bring Black  3/16” thick FOAM CORE trimmed FLUSH to the edge of the art work – if time permits we will mount them in class
-> If you still have to revise your poster based on the feedback you received, then you can email me a (high-res) PDF of your final Illustrator or Photoshop file
I must receive FINAL poster no later than 5PM on Tuesday November 20, 2012.
Because the file will likely be larger than you can send via email you can use either of the following free sites to send me your work:

www.yousendit.com
www.dropbox.com

In-Class
Presentations: Saul Bass, James Victore, Steve Brodner, Shadow Chen, & Matteo Bologna

Lesson – lesson
-> Smart Objects – Illustrator into Photoshop (Photoshop)
-> Working with scanned sketch work in Photoshop -> painting.
-> Retouching
-> Unlimited access to lynda.com for you until January. Lynda.com provides online tutorials for the software covered in these and other classes. Please check your CityTech email account for more information.

Project 2: Book Cover Design
Please review the following list of books. I would like you to select a source book for which you will develop a cover design. All selected books are public domain titles and have text readily available on-line through multiple sources. I recommend checking Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org) for full-text downloads on these titles.

Project Specs:
Cover designs MUST include the book title and author’s name; you are not required to feature any additional text.
Dimensions: 6 x 9”
Bleed: .125”
400dpi format
RGB
Photoshop or Illustrator

Looking at a complete book cover (wrapped around a book) laid flat you will see the back cover, spine, and front cover, in that order from left to right. So allowing .125 for trim around each edge, your width formula is .125 + cover size + spine width + cover size + .125.

The formula for spine width is page width ( typically.002252) times final number of pages. So for a 300 page book the spine width would be .68 (.002252 x 300).

Homework:
1. Select a book: Author and Title
2. Visit Barnes and Nobles online and research book cover designs in the Best-selling list for your genre: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/Classic-Books-Barnes-and-Noble-Classics/379003245