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Define: series and sequence

Series is a group of related or similar things, event and such….                                  Sequence is the following of one thing after another, succession and order

Define: sign, index, symbol

An index is when something (A), such as a sense goes with and implies or points to something else (B the point of interest).  Indices are directly influenced by their objects.                                                                                                                                                  A symbol has convention-based relationships with their objects sucks as words like nouns, verbs and adjectives.                                                                                                        Signs are both indices and symbols. “Sign: icon from an index from a symbol.”

What makes a successful bookjacket?

            A successful bookjacket should immediately grab your attention and cause you to investigate further into the book.  I should want to MAKE you read the book.  It is very important that the bookjacket is dynamic, compelling and unique. The viewer should be left with a visual of what the book could possibly be about.

My Series:

Lucky By Alice Sebold, Memoir                                                                                                                   Lovely Bones By Alice Sebold, Fiction                                                                                                   The Almost Moon By Alice Sebold, Fiction

Research:

A little about the author: These three books are the only ones she has written.  At the age of 19 she was attacked, beaten and brutally raped.  A few months later a young woman was found murdered and raped in the same spot where it happened to her.  She passed her rapist on campus and recognized him and turned him in.  Her first novel Lucky reflects this.  Her second novel Lovely Bones was a bestselling novel and most known of the three.  Lovely Bones is about a young girl who is raped and killed and then watches over her family and friends in heaven. It is being turned into a film and will be released December 11 2009!  Her last book, The Almost Moon, is about a girl with a mental issue who kills her mother easily with no problem or regret. She has received the American Bookseller Association award in 2003 and the Bram Stoker Award for her first novel in 2002.

Associated word list:

Chilling, mysterious, grief, sadness, hope, curious, moving, strength, courage, shivery, scary, secret, dead, sorrow, heartache, desire, anticipation, despair, inquiring, touching, emotional, rough, confusion, persuasive, hazy, cold, sorrow, cloudy, gloomy, sinister, dusky, grieve, regret, blurred, intense, crisp, emotionless, wishful, optimistic, expectant, watchful, comfort, refuse, cowardly, soothe, despair, anger, provoke, anticipation, expectancy…

10 Defined Words:

Chilling: A sensation of coldness, often accompanied by shivering; a sudden numbing fear or dread, distant.                                                                                                Hope: to look forward to with desire and reasonable confidence. To believe, to feel that something desired may happen.                                                                                     Courage: the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty danger, and pain without fear; bravery.                                                                                              Secret: Done, made, or conducted without knowledge or others. Secluded, sheltered or withdrawn.                                                                                                                                  Sorrow: distress caused by loss, disappointment, affection, grief, sadness or regret.  Emotional: Determined or effected by emotion rather than reason.                                Confusion: Disorder, chaos, lack of clearness or distinctness.                                               Watchful: Vibrant or alert, closely observant.                                                                   Anger: A strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong.         Anticipation: Expectation or hope, realization in advance. To expect to look forward to, to prevent.

Tone:

Fiction                                                                                                                                           Serious                                                                                                                                             Courageous                                                                                                                                                              Hopeful                                                                                                                                 

To Suggest List:

A sense of hope…                                                                                                                                 A sense of forgiveness….                                                                                                                      A sense of sorrow…                                                                                                                             A sense of suspense…                                                                                                                 A sense of confusion…                                                                                                                       A sense of frustration…                                                                                                                     A sense of why did this happen to her…

Concept Statement (part one):

10 quotes:

Lovely Bones:                                                                                                                             “Nothing is ever certain.”                                                                                                                “He wore his innocence like a comfortable old coat.”                                                                               “These were the lovely bones that had grown my absence. The connections sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death brought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some predictable time in the future. The price of what I cam to see as this miraculous body had been my life.”                                                    

Lucky:                                                                                                                                              “I live in a world where the two truths coexist; where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand.”                                                                                                                              “We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.” 

“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” Christopher Reeve                                     “I have learned that lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary psychological or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope too can be given to one only by other human beings.” Elie Wiesel                                                           “Loss is nothing else but change, and change is natures delight.” Marcus Aurelius       “I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst form happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness immobilized by gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise form the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have- life itself.” Walter Anderson

Concept Statement Notes:

A concept statement tries to capture the “essence” of a product.  It serves as an anchor point of common ground.  It describes how your design is going to look.  It should be able to visualize mood, tone etc. after reading it.

GRAPHIC DESIGN: Reading One

I learned quite a lot in our first reading assignment and I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.  I learned that logos, signs and symbols are all interpreted differently depending on who the target audience is.

"Signs are formed through the society that creates them."

I learned that meanings can be created through many different ways depending on what is given to you.  Things can also have different meanings depending on the culture and time period that you are in.  To one society a symbol may mean something good, while to another it may mean something quite bad.

The most important thing that I learned during this reading was probably how much process, work and thought needs to be put into and considered when designing a logo.  There are many steps that most people forget when designing that can make or break that perfect design!