New Teams & Schedule

UREP Book Project

Outline: Project Organization & Tasks

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Deliverables:

1. Report (Patty & Jesse)
2. Presentation (Patty, Jesse, Don, Sara, may need design help)
3. Book Project (physical book 'mock-up' 3 copies? & pdf/digital files)
4. Student Presentation (TBD)

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Completion of Layouts:
December 15th, 2011
(the layouts can be completed and I can go through each one)

Layout Deadline:
January 5th, 2012
(all design changes and corrections need to be completed)

Deliverable (mock-up & digital files ready):
January 20th, 2012
http://www.lulu.com/
http://www.blurb.com/
Blink (in Doha)

Project Deadline:
January 31, 2012



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NEW Teams:


Felicity Ulmer (layout designer)
Abdulla Al-Kuwari (illustrator)
Story: Jouha Counting Donkeys (english version complete, arabic in progress)


Felicity Ulmer (layout designer)
Note: Felicity and I (michael) will be responsible for the slip case box and managing all the book projects.


Khadija Safri (layout designer)
Mariam Sarraj (illustrator)
Story: Hadeed Hadeeco


Ameera Makki (layout designer)
Jo Bermejo (illustrator)
Story: Thieves & the Tree Trunk


Ameera Makki (layout designer)
Noora Al-Sulaiti (illustrator)
Story: The Gumiho


Sahar (layout designer)
Reem Alhajri (illustrator)
Story: Om al Manakhel (currently being translated into Arabic by Sara)


Noora K (layout designer)
Wafaa Al-Saffar (illustrator)
Story: The Golden Cow


Maryam K (layout designer)
Fatma Al-Remaihi (illustrator)
Legend of Mai & Ghaillan


Haneen S (layout designer)
Zoe Donald (illustrator)
Story: Hassan and the Jewels


Ahood D (layout designer)
Al Hussein (illustrator)
Story: Om Hamar, The Donkey Lady (currently being translated into Arabic by Sara)


Leila N (layout designer & designer)
Note: Leila is illustrating a story in the screen printing class. She has agreed to be responsible for designing a book containing all the illustrations from the screen printing class. We may need to discuss how this will work and if we will include all the illustrations from the screen printing students or only select a few.


Don Early (illustrator)
Hamda & the Fairy Fish
Note: Don needs to be paired with a layout design person. If we have layout people that want to work with Don, we can figure that out in the next few weeks. Also, I (michael) could work with Don as needed.


Did I miss anyone or anything? Please let me know and I can make updates.

Resources

As mentioned in the meeting, I think it will be important for the illustrations to explore different styles, on and off the computer, some more 'graphic' some more 'illustrative', colors, textures, flat, dimensional, collage, conceptual, realism, etc. As well has exploring the content (for example, a illustration of a car does not have to mimic a real car, but you can translate that image many ways using different techniques, cropping and details).

Here are some 'graphic design' based illustrators I have come across in the past and enjoy their work. Also, there are some links to various 'graphic' based illustrator resources.

Nicholas Blechman (Creator of Empire Nozone, I have a copy from the vcuq library)

Mc Sweeney's and specifically the Quarterly

Flashback (examples of 'graphic' illustrations in contemporary design, I have this if you want to look through it)

Secrets of Digital Illustration (good resource, I have it check out from the library)

Great Blog Resource (you can find 1000's of examples using the tags on the right side)

Another Resource of Illustrators on CargoCollective

Another great resource I found in our library is 'Will Eisner, Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative'. I currently have it checked, but plan to return it after break. You can find more info about the book here. The book focuses on the 'visual narrative' of everything you put on the page, similar to the semiotics of image making. For example, when you illustrate something as simple as a knife, it could be viewed as good or bad, belong to the hero or villain, used for killing, protection or cutting fruit. And when you put the knife for cutting fruit in the hands of the hero who accidentally kills someone... then a narrative comes to life. A night sky could be serine and beautiful or scary, depending on how you draw it, colors, texture, etc. I think it would be good to consider these aspects on a subconscious level when developing visual ideas.