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THE PENGUIN BOOK COVER TASK WAS A GREAT PROJECT BECAUSE IT ENCOUREGED US TO APPLY MANY DIFFERENT SKILLS TO ONE FAIRLY STRUCTURED END RESULT - A B00K C0VER. WE HAD A CHOISE OF THREE STORIES AND WE WERE GIVEN AN EXTRACT OF EACH TO READ AND ANNOTATE HOWEVER WE FELT WOULD BE MOST USEFUL FOR CHOOSING A KEY IMAGE TO GO ON THE FRONT COVER. WE THEN HAD TO CHOOSE ONE OF THE BOOKS AND WORK FURTHER FROM THAT---PRODUCING ROUGHS WHICH WERE SHOWN TO THE CL A SS AND THEN TAKING ONE FURTHER TO FORM THE FINAL COVER.

PETER ASKED US TO CON SIDER THESE THINGS WHEN MAKING OUR COVERS----- --- --

"consider moment of choice, counterpoint, cropping, blank space, asymmetry-symmetry, figurative-abstract, the statement, what not to say, sense of time and place. Do you need observation? Location? Reference?"

I CHOSE TO DO 'SCALE' BY WILL SELF. IT WAS A STORY ABOUT A MAN WHO WAS A DRUG ADDICT, BUT FROM THE OUTSIDE HE WOULD HAVE APPEARED LIKE A COMPLETELY NORAMAL PERSON. IT WAS FANTASTICLY ENGLISH- USING IMAGERY OF MOTOR WAYS/MODEL VILLAGES/BUNGALOWS BUT AT THE SAME TIME IT IS PARRALELLED WITH A TYPICAL DARK BRITISH SENSE OF HUMOUR. ALSO IN KEEPING WITH THE TITLE, THE STORY OFTEN MAKES REFERENCES TO SCALE (MODEL VILLAGE/BUNGALOW) AND YOU GET THE SENSE THAT AS THE PROTAGONIST SLIPS FURTHER INTO HIS DRUG ADDICTION HIS SENSE OF SCALE --IN ALL MEANINGS OF THE WORD STARTS TO BECOME DISTORTED.