Book Covers 1900's

In this lesson I looked at a page with the four designs. The class needed to figure out what the difference with each of them was. For example, image 3 was different to the rest as it wasn't advertising an event like the others, it was giving a message. Another example was that image 2 had a different alignment than the others, it was ranged to the left and the others were ranged in the middle. After this task I was told to make a page with several images of book covers between the 1940's - 1990's. I saw that the covers from different years had different styles. For example, in the 1940's the drawings/covers was dull and plain. Most of the covers had white backgrounds.

After the research task I had to create a book cover design of my own. However I didn't create an image of my own but from a secondary source. I found an image in grayscale of a man playing the trumpet. The design of the cover is supposed to be in comparison to a cover in the 1940's so that's why I chose to create my background blank and in have a simple sized font that wrote the title of the book (Street Art).

Book Cover

In This lesson I began the assignment and started with the first task which was to create a research page about street art, graffiti, murals and outsider art. I created a mood board with images of art and then stuck it in my book.
After creating the mood board I decided to create a design for my book cover. I chose to start of with the topic street art. Dozens of ideas were popping up in my head and finally I thought of one which was suitable for the topic.

Flash Tutorial

In this part of the lesson I had to create an animation of a moving object. Firstly, I had to create a shape so I chose a skateboard. After creating the shape I needed to create it as a Symbol. By doing this I had to go on modify on the task bar above and then click on convert to symbol. I was then able to start moving it around and creating an animation. So when creating it I had to first insert a keyframe on the 12th frame by right clicking it and selecting insert key frame. After creating a key frame I placed the image on the other side of the page.  Then I created another frame on the next 12th frame and place the image on the original area. After creating the whole clip I highlighted the timeline selected classic tween on the insert bar on the task bar above. This created a smooth and well running animation clip of a skateboard moving back and forward.

Typograpghy

In this lesson I learnt different term of typography, info-graphics. I first had to type in 'Blowfish Angels' in a 'Times New Roman' font and increase the size which it cover most of the page. After this I selected both words and expanded it (Object > Expand). The next step was to colour in specific areas of the letters. I had to first select a single letter by using the group selection tool, and then use the knife tool and cut a section off of a letter and fill it in with a colour of my choice. I then ad to do this for all the other letters.