The GrD Sketchbook Project (Inspired by The Sketchbook Project.com / Brooklyn Art Library)

The Sketchbook Project:

(Inspired by http://www.sketchbookproject.com)

Each of you are receiving a 25-page black 8.5 x5.5 paperback sketchbook.

This is yours to use until midterm. At midterm you you will return the sketchbook.

We won’t look at them until they are all completed.

These sketchbooks will be viewed by everyone in class and also displayed in the cases in the art department.

You will also receive a grade.

You should have enough time to fill the entire book.

Single-page sketches or Double-page spread sketches. It could even be one continuous sketch throughout.

You can put any imagery you want inside of it.

Any media is acceptable. Any method of inclusion is acceptable. It should be on a topic/theme that inspires you.

You can take the book apart and run it through the printer or use collage materials or run it through the sewing machine.

It could contain “pop up” images, silkscreened images, die cuts, or more conventional image making like pen, pencil, & watercolor. The sky is the limit.

Creativity is the goal.

The book MUST be returned back to me in it’s original shape/size. You cannot add or delete pages to it. If you glue, staple, collage materials to it then it should still retain it’s shape and possible width and weight. There is some allowances here for width.

Every page must be acknowledged which means no blank pages unless you are seeking spatial or compositional qualities that one side of the page can lend to another side.  For drama or focus. In the end, the book must fit back into it’s acetate envelope.

You could also quite possibly create a new front/back cover if you want. You can change the cover paper stock if you wish.

Maybe it’s cover is made of wood or cloth or mylar or any other substrate that will join your thematic approach.

It’s Art serving Art with a purpose.

*I would ask that before all the books are collected that you make a digital copy for yourself. Flat Double-page spreads of the entire book. I would encourage you to even put these pages up on your blogs for posterity.

Again, here are the specifics of the project:

1.  Sketchbooks MUST have a Theme or Topic. You should indicate the theme somehow in the book.

2.  The name of designer and the Theme/Topic should be listed on the last page of the sketchbook (not the inside back cover but the last page someplace.)

3.  Each Designer should “sign and date” the sketchbook on the last page.

4.  Whatever you wish to do inside the book (and the covers) is fine as long as it returns itself to me at the end of one

month in it’s entire format. (size/scale).  It should be returned in its acetate envelope for safe keeping.

 

That’s it.  No get to work and have fun creating a 25-Day Sketchbook filled with whatever you wish: photography, illustrations, typography, posters, doodles, collage, mixed media, painted images, die cuts, pop ups, embossed images, printed images, printmaking, etc.  Just be creative.

Start Date: Wednesday January 15th

Due Date:  Wednesday March 12th

*There is also an additional surprise at the end of this assignment so stay tuned.