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jen · Kate Spade

Please help-I have to make a book!

hotcocoa · Kate Spade

jen - what type of class is it for? are there any other details you can give? i might be able to help you but i feel like i need a bit more info!

jen · Kate Spade

Literally, there are no requirements. My teachers just wants us to make something that can be called a book with some kind of text in it. That's why it's hard-I wish she'd give us details but she wants us to be creative and free to do what we want.

theotherjess · Chanel

Maybe you could make an edible book? Or maybe I am just hungry .

jen · Kate Spade

Haha-I'd get hungry walking to class and show up with a half eaten book! I thought of something though. Thanks for the replies girls!

mikacat · Coach

what about a self portrait or autobiography about yourself

or a book about a body part---like noses or smiles and take different photos of people and/or animals

other ideas.....

things to do when you are bored

what would you do for a million dollars

my favorite things

a children's book

colors

famous movie quotes

songs

good luck--let us know what you end up doing

hotcocoa · Kate Spade

okay i'm going to tell you about a project that i remember from college, but it's kind of conceptual so i don't know if this line of thinking is too out there for your class. in one of my senior year graphic design classes we did a book transformation project where we choose a book (i purchased one from a great little used bookstore) and transformed it into it's content visually. my book was on the halocaust so i lit a small fire and burned it so that the edges and corners and covers were nice and charred leaving only part of a ghostly black and white image from the front cover and then wrapped it in barbed wire. another girl in my class chose a book on hunting and took her book out into the woods, strapped it to a tree and shot it up with a bebe gun. another student had a book on origami and folded up the pages of the book into little origami creations. too far out there? if anything maybe it'll help you get some ideas going. good luck and let us know what you come up with.

jen · Kate Spade

Hotcocoa-that's excatly what we do! It's an imagnitive writing class mixed media. So the point of this project is to make the physical object of a 'book.' The text doesn't really matter, it's the presentation. So what I did what cut out newspapers at write Robert Frost's Birches on the newspapers. Get it-trees, newspapers....Anyhow, and for the cover I'm going to decopodge (that's probably SO wrong-I just sounded it out!) different pictures of birches on some black havy paper. I'm going to use raffia to hold the book together. So ta-da, I hope I get an A! Thanks for your ideas everyone!