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Item The adventures of Tom Bombadil book redesign: re-designing Tolkien’s poems from the Red Book into an illustrated book(2021) Larochelle, Coralie; Pacher, ConstanzaA redesign of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, a collection of poems and part of his legendarium. Design and typographic principles bring out the beauty of the book, and linocut-stamp illustrations highlight each poem.Item Altering history so that I emerge victorious(2015) Stobbe, Morgan; Pacher, Constanza; Fiorentino, CarlosUnder the premise that the visual form is dictated by the content, students were encouraged to analyze plot, characters, point of view, imagery, tone, themes and symbolism to extract keywords, sentences and passages as the basis for their designs. Students were asked to challenge literal interpretations by exploring the use of expressive typography and text and image relationships.Item And I was cast adrift on a strange new river(2014) Huizinga, Robyn; Pacher, Constanza; Dupuis, JessUnder the premise that the visual form is dictated by the content, students were encouraged to analyze plot, characters, point of view, imagery, tone, themes and symbolism to extract keywords, sentences and passages as the basis for their designs. Students were asked to challenge literal interpretations by exploring the use of expressive typography and text and image relationships.Item And that Eli, is how you got your freckles(2015) Reed, Daniel; Pacher, Constanza; Fiorentino, CarlosUnder the premise that the visual form is dictated by the content, students were encouraged to analyze plot, characters, point of view, imagery, tone, themes and symbolism to extract keywords, sentences and passages as the basis for their designs. Students were asked to challenge literal interpretations by exploring the use of expressive typography and text and image relationships.Item Angie Stone: old school man, Rihanna(2017) Olsen, Janae; Pacher, ConstanzaEach year MacEwan University chooses a work of contemporary Canadian fiction. The Book of the Year is explored through classes, author readings, workshops, and contests. This piece belongs to the Book of the Year Poster Series project where Design Studies students interpreted it through type and image. The exhibited work showed excerpts from Love Enough by Dionne Brand. Course: DESN330 Typography II. Instructor: Constanza Pacher.Item Anne of Green Gables - book design & illustration: book jacket(2022) McMullin, Shae; Pacher, ConstanzaI designed, typeset, and illustrated Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery. I focused on combining the historical setting of the book with contemporary middle-grade book design trends. I conducted research into eBook design with the goals of understanding industry standards as well as the experiences of eBook readers. I created a reflowable eBook that retained the visual spirit of the print version while remaining accessible and responsive.Item Anne of Green Gables - book design & illustration: case study(2022) McMullin, Shae; Pacher, ConstanzaI designed, typeset, and illustrated Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery. I focused on combining the historical setting of the book with contemporary middle-grade book design trends. I conducted research into eBook design with the goals of understanding industry standards as well as the experiences of eBook readers. I created a reflowable eBook that retained the visual spirit of the print version while remaining accessible and responsive.Item Anne of Green Gables - book design & illustration: print interior(2022) McMullin, Shae; Pacher, ConstanzaI designed, typeset, and illustrated Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery. I focused on combining the historical setting of the book with contemporary middle-grade book design trends. I conducted research into eBook design with the goals of understanding industry standards as well as the experiences of eBook readers. I created a reflowable eBook that retained the visual spirit of the print version while remaining accessible and responsive.Item Anne of Green Gables - book design & illustration: video(2022) McMullin, Shae; Pacher, ConstanzaI designed, typeset, and illustrated Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery. I focused on combining the historical setting of the book with contemporary middle-grade book design trends. I conducted research into eBook design with the goals of understanding industry standards as well as the experiences of eBook readers. I created a reflowable eBook that retained the visual spirit of the print version while remaining accessible and responsive.Item The application of 1920s Bauhaus aesthetic to contemporary album design(2022) Ma, Thia; Pacher, ConstanzaThe aesthetic choices for this design reinforce the central idea of 3 into 1. Three individuals on three different instruments come together to become the Up and Over Trio. The three colours leading into the Trio's title demonstrate this relationship and signify the importance of each musician's sound. Conversely, take one colour away, and the design loses its balance. Red, blue, and yellow is used because, as primary colours, they create all other colours. Considering the Trio's history of playing back up, these essential colours show they are the focus of this album. Using simple shapes in the typeface and visual design elements keeps the overall feel of the cover clean and modern. The textured background adds visual interest and grounds the overall design, making it approachable and warm. Additionally, the brown paper texture is reminiscent of a wrapped gift waiting to be opened and enjoyed. The 3D placement of the text and colours adds visual rhythm, not unlike jazz music, in a contemporary style that is playfully unexpected. The typeface used throughout deliverables is Joost, a typeface intended to emulate the 1920s design aesthetic. It's pulling from the age of jazz while still appealing to modern audiences. The black type, in particular, stands out against the textured background and boldly draws the eye. The final design honours the Trio, their paths that led to the creation of this album, and the evolving world of jazz.Item Beautiful: he said she was beautiful(2017) Scaman, Caitlyn; Pacher, ConstanzaEach year MacEwan University chooses a work of contemporary Canadian fiction. The Book of the Year is explored through classes, author readings, workshops, and contests. This piece belongs to the Book of the Year Poster Series project where Design Studies students interpreted it through type and image. The exhibited work showed excerpts from Love Enough by Dionne Brand. Course: DESN330 Typography II. Instructor: Constanza Pacher.Item Beautiful: she had been hanging from that word ever since she was a child(2017) Scaman, Caitlyn; Pacher, ConstanzaEach year MacEwan University chooses a work of contemporary Canadian fiction. The Book of the Year is explored through classes, author readings, workshops, and contests. This piece belongs to the Book of the Year Poster Series project where Design Studies students interpreted it through type and image. The exhibited work showed excerpts from Love Enough by Dionne Brand. Course: DESN330 Typography II. Instructor: Constanza Pacher.Item Beautiful: she had no center except that word(2017) Scaman, Caitlyn; Pacher, ConstanzaEach year MacEwan University chooses a work of contemporary Canadian fiction. The Book of the Year is explored through classes, author readings, workshops, and contests. This piece belongs to the Book of the Year Poster Series project where Design Studies students interpreted it through type and image. The exhibited work showed excerpts from Love Enough by Dionne Brand. Course: DESN330 Typography II. Instructor: Constanza Pacher.Item Because this is how our ancestors would have wanted it(2019) Goos, Melaina; Pacher, ConstanzaThe last poster is connecting all the posters. Recognizing individual worth, healing with traditional practices, and reinforcing the importance of healing because that is what their Ancestors would want. The use of traditional practices, connecting to the land and back to their cultural identity will help to heal from the pain experienced from colonization and intergenerational trauma. The photograph is blurry besides the circular portion in the center. It is representing bringing back clarity and not being lost anymore.Item The beetle in the barnhouse - Foe book redesign(2021) Le, Ashley; Pacher, ConstanzaThe front cover of this book design shows a significant amount of details that can be found throughout the novel. The worn-down wood texture represents the Barnhouse, its old age apparent by the deep carvings of the wood’s texture. A beetle rests inside the ‘O’ in FOE, which represents the beetle that the replacements, Junior and Henrietta, were captivated by when they first saw it. The beetle inside the “o” is inspired by a quote: “It’s not an infestation, I say. It’s only one.” The beetle’s colour easily blends well with the colour of the wood background, almost making the beetle seem like it’s making an infiltration into Junior’s home; this infiltration is how the replacement believed that Terrance wants to take over his spot as his replacement while he is out in space. The motif of the wood texture and the beetle are carried throughout the entire novel, creating an intriguing visual representation of the replacements and their original owners. It is the beetle that helps us tell the difference between the replacement and the original owners, and it is the Barnhouse that makes the two similar to each other. A serif font, Adobe Garamond Pro and Yu Mincho, is used throughout the entirety of the book, emphasizing Junior’s importance on keeping things the way they are and not willing to accept change. This also applies to Henrietta’s replacement, where the significance of her memories only caters to the original Junior’s image of her, representing their failed marriage.Item Believe me, you'll be good enough(2014) Dirk, Kaitlyn; Pacher, Constanza; Dupuis, JessUnder the premise that the visual form is dictated by the content, students were encouraged to analyze plot, characters, point of view, imagery, tone, themes and symbolism to extract keywords, sentences and passages as the basis for their designs. Students were asked to challenge literal interpretations by exploring the use of expressive typography and text and image relationships.Item Book design - A collection of short stories by Edgar Allan Poe(2022) Drouin, Ashley; Pacher, ConstanzaThe goal of this project was to redesign a book or a collection of stories. This book consists of six short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is known for his horror stories and poems that deal with mystery, death, and other macabre subject matter. The cover design includes a dripping blood illustration above a rich red background. The colour and design of the cover represent murder and death, which are major themes present in Poe’s writing. The typeface is a clean sans-serif font written in large white letters which gives the book a modern feel and contrasts against the red. The inside cover is black with white illustrations of a cat and a heart. These two illustrations are images that relate to two of Poe’s most well-known stories, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat. The interior includes a small illustration at the beginning of each story and a black and white texture on the left page. Each illustration and texture is different and represents a specific symbol, theme, or emotion of that particular story. Lapture Display is used for the chapter openings, a serif typeface with jagged and sharply cut edges. This typeface works well with Poe’s work due to its edginess and gives the book an unsettling feel. The illustrations play off of this font due to their use of simple black lines with a mixture of soft curves and sharp points.Item Book design - A collection of short stories by Edgar Allan Poe(2022) Drouin, Ashley; Pacher, ConstanzaThe goal of this project was to redesign a book or a collection of stories. This book consists of six short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is known for his horror stories and poems that deal with mystery, death, and other macabre subject matter. The cover design includes a dripping blood illustration above a rich red background. The colour and design of the cover represent murder and death, which are major themes present in Poe’s writing. The typeface is a clean sans-serif font written in large white letters which gives the book a modern feel and contrasts against the red. The inside cover is black with white illustrations of a cat and a heart. These two illustrations are images that relate to two of Poe’s most well-known stories, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat. The interior includes a small illustration at the beginning of each story and a black and white texture on the left page. Each illustration and texture is different and represents a specific symbol, theme, or emotion of that particular story. Lapture Display is used for the chapter openings, a serif typeface with jagged and sharply cut edges. This typeface works well with Poe’s work due to its edginess and gives the book an unsettling feel. The illustrations play off of this font due to their use of simple black lines with a mixture of soft curves and sharp points.Item Book design - A collection of short stories by Edgar Allan Poe(2022) Drouin, Ashley; Pacher, ConstanzaThe goal of this project was to redesign a book or a collection of stories. This book consists of six short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is known for his horror stories and poems that deal with mystery, death, and other macabre subject matter. The cover design includes a dripping blood illustration above a rich red background. The colour and design of the cover represent murder and death, which are major themes present in Poe’s writing. The typeface is a clean sans-serif font written in large white letters which gives the book a modern feel and contrasts against the red. The inside cover is black with white illustrations of a cat and a heart. These two illustrations are images that relate to two of Poe’s most well-known stories, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat. The interior includes a small illustration at the beginning of each story and a black and white texture on the left page. Each illustration and texture is different and represents a specific symbol, theme, or emotion of that particular story. Lapture Display is used for the chapter openings, a serif typeface with jagged and sharply cut edges. This typeface works well with Poe’s work due to its edginess and gives the book an unsettling feel. The illustrations play off of this font due to their use of simple black lines with a mixture of soft curves and sharp points.Item Book design: "Fairy tales by H.C. Andersen, an illustrated collection of stories"(2022) Cox, Lisa; Pacher, Constanza"Fairy Tales by H.C. Andersen, A Collection of Stories” features work pulled from Andersen's 156 fairytales existing across nine volumes. Andersen's tales explore the hardship of life and champion resilience in the face of adversity, making his stories suitable for people of all ages. The design of this book pulls from the classic Fairy Tale genre, using ornamentation, frames, and highly stylized and whimsical typefaces. The dark blue cover with a subtle antique pattern creates a lovely backdrop for the typography and ornamentation. The inside of the cover features a dark and misty forest, lending to an air of mystery. Each typeface chosen interacts and compliments the theme and brings variety to each page. Illustrations accompany the introduction of each story, highlighting an essential part of the tale. The Illustrations are stylized and straightforward with a light antique line art feel. This illustrated collection consists of seven stories: the Littler Mermaid, Little Tiny Thumbelina, the Dumb Book, The Fir Tree, the Little Match Seller, The Brave Tin Soldier, and The Elf of the Rose. This Rendition of Andersen's tales celebrates the whimsy of the genre and the haunting tales that have become embedded in western culture. Bachelor of Design, DESN 317.