Design a cover for PRINT magazine. All the other Vis Com classes are doing it!

Why write my own description of the assignment when i can steal it from the department:

Every year PRINT holds a student cover contest. Typically this cover takes a humorous or satiric look at aspects of the designer or artists’ world. Think aboutthe montage theory, (contrasting images or one of the other techniques for solving visual problems: irony, visual pun, or visual metaphor. Keep in mind most if not all symbols representing art, art supplies, creativity etc., are cliches. If you use cliches, you must inject them with new life. It is strongly suggested that you invent new symbols, or new relationships of existing symbols, to effect meaning and insight.

Many students choose to take potshots at our lives vis-a-vis the computer, so be aware the most obvious ones have been done before. The most clever usually have to do with creativity itself or our cultural associations (or misunderstanding of) symbols. Originality ranks high on this project.

The best five solutions from all VisCom classes doing this assignment will be submitted to PRINT. We have had several winners in past years.

Careful with thumbprints/handprints: they’ve seen most of these type of solutions before. Do not do anything that manipulates images to say “PRINT”.

Process and Media

Your design should include the requirements stated in PRINT’s own guidelines. Please note this is to be a comp, and if selected will be submitted to PRINT as such, so it should have a high degree of finish.

Any media, color.

9 x 10 7/8”
No original art, please. Mount on foamcore to trim size, no border, no mat.

Resources

Research past PRINT covers (in the library)
A digital file of the PRINT logo is available in Imaging.

Schedule

• 10 Feb : Assignment given, in class sketching
• 17 Feb : Rough sketches due
• 24 Feb : Refined Comp due
• 02 Mar : Finals due
• 09 Mar : Spring Break!

Assignment :: Visual Communications