Book Cover for a Digital Storytelling Apocalypse

Book Cover for a Digital Storytelling Apocalypse

by @imatutu_

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March 4, 2021

I tried to make this book cover seem all eerie and mysterious using Photoshop to put drop shadow and text onto this google images dystopian photo, but I don’t think I did too hot. I have no clue what I meant when I typed “nobody cared until the bells rang”, it just seemed suspenseful and […]
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Book Cover: Apocolypse

by @shika_f

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June 2, 2019

For the Apocalyptic book cover assignment, I had created a interesting cover for the title! I haven’t played The Long Dark in a…
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Apocalyptic Alternative Book Cover – GIF

by @GMorris1988

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April 29, 2018

Here is the GIF of my book cover https://imgflip.com/gif-maker?from=images
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A Beautiful Gif-t

by @laasarge

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April 17, 2018

The final assignment I did for my novel was the Apocalyptic Book Cover: Gif Edition, for 5 stars. I had an incredibly hard time with this assignment and I’m still not completely satisfied with how it looks but sometimes you don’t get the perfect result. […]
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Apocalyptic Animated Book Cover

by @dslupekds106

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April 17, 2018

For my final assignment this week I completed the Animated Book Cover assignment for The Stand by Stephen King, the background gif features a critical scene in the storyline, as seen in the movie.
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Alternate Book Cover Pt 2

by @Anne Armour

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April 16, 2018

So I decided to make a gif version of the Alternate Book Cover assignment given to us. I actually found this one to be kinda…
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The Best Assignment I’ve Ever Done

by @schooltaylorr

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April 16, 2018

As I’ve mentioned, I read H. G Wells’ The War of the Worlds for my book. I decided to do the Animated Gif Book cover…
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It’s Dusty in There – Alt. Book Cover Part 2

by @Chris_tastrophe

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April 15, 2018

Behind the Scenes Another stab at the Apocalyptic Alternative Book Cover assignment – now in .gif form. The original I did is here. I took my old book cover and wanted to create the feel that we were actually looking into an abandoned silo from a camera. I added slight camera glitches and dust […]
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A Book Cover Like You’ve Never Seen

by @eafinto

| apocalypse, apocalyptic, book cover, California, designassignments, DesignAssignments2187, ds106, edan lepucki, gif, novel, Syndicated
April 15, 2018

Have you ever walked through the bookstore and seen a book with a GIF playing on the cover? I bet not! If you have, please tell me what book! We’ve all seen the books that if you tilt them back and forth the image changes, but it’s not a GIF! A few weeks ago, I […]
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World War Z Book Cover GIFitized!!!

by @jetjenk43

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April 12, 2018

For this assignment Animated GIF Alternative Cover a 5 Star assignment we were to revisit the apocalyptic novel cover from earlier this semester, but make it an animated GIF this time. I was unable to make the background of my original cover animated, so I found a clip that included a helicopter, like the helicopter …
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Alternate Book Cover: The Last Man

by @hnystro2CPSC106

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April 2, 2018

The Last Man Here is a GIF illustrating how I imagine The Last Man (on Earth) would be; if I, personally, were the last person on earth, I imagine my presumably somber and lonely mindset would prompt me to wander a beach, longing for the days when the water and sky were blue, and the …
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Alternative Book Cover

by @dannpannn

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March 1, 2018

The Stand by Stephen King The virus runs rampant…
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Thinking Like a Designer…

by @una__vita

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February 27, 2018

Design Reflection: I enjoyed Paula’s presentation on the differences between being solemn and serious regarding one’s approach to design. Because I am an artist, and do some graphic design myself, I feel like I can relate directly to what she is talking about. Sometimes I find myself being stuck between being solemn and serious when …
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Book Cover

by @keyris22

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February 26, 2018

To make my book cover I used the website Canva.com and then used a book temple to put my book cover together. It was really easy and I recommend everyone that has not made their book cover or any assignment that is similar to this one to use this site ...
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Design Assignments

by @dslupekds106

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February 26, 2018

Assignment: Alternate Book Cover The Stand by Stephen King reimagined. This time, its horizontal. The horizontal printing of this copy is meant to resemble the vast empty, openness of the post-illness apocalypse that occurs in the storyline. Assignment: Character Generator… The Making of Joey Buckets Pictured at the top is Joey Buckets. At the … Continue reading Design Assignments
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Less is More: New Cover for Sea of Rust

by @laasarge

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February 26, 2018

This week we were supposed to create a new cover for the books we’re reading and I did just that. I’m really drawn to the minimalistic redos of classic books and I wanted to try to attempt that for my new cover for Sea of Rust. […]
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Apocalyptic Alternative Book Cover

by @GMorris1988

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February 26, 2018

Here is my alternative book cover for The Man Who Ended The World by Jason Gurly
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Design Assignments

by @dnguyenUMW

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February 26, 2018

Alternative Book Cover I created this book cover to represent that there is a day-side and night-side of the book. In the dark side of the city are the vampires who run rampant in the night in the moonlight. As … Continue reading →
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Book Cover

by @CCally733

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February 26, 2018

The reason i used notebook paper is because In the book the Unnamed midwife writes about her journey but asks others along the way to add their stories and i imagined it was on any paper she could find. Also i am using the the design element of contra...
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An Alternative Cover for ‘The Book of the Unnamed Midwife’

by @JillianAviva

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February 26, 2018

I created this alternative book cover for ‘The Book of the Unnamed Midwife’ using both Pixlr and Canva. Originally, I was hoping to have an abandoned highway with half a person on the edge of the cover holding their hand in a fist. I wanted the person to represent the main character as being alone and …
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Alternative Book Cover: The Passage

by @AlyssaMurrell1

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February 26, 2018

I decided to use Canva for this assignment. I used a template that was already created and changed the picture and titles. I decided to stick with the woods theme since this book is about survival and catastrophe with a girl and saving a destroyed world. I liked this picture of the woods because it …
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Alternate Book Cover: Wool

by @tostromcpsc106

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February 26, 2018

Below is my alternate book cover for Wool by Hugh Howey. I chose to use a picture of silos since the characters of the novel are living in a silo. I wanted the image to be black and white so a eerie feel would be given off. In the novel, the outside world is ominous […]
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Hire Me, Hugh Howey: Wool Alt. Cover

by @Chris_tastrophe

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February 25, 2018

Apocalyptic Alternative Book Cover Behind the Scenes This cover was edited and created using Pixlr. To start, I set off in search of an old, metal spiral staircase with a top-down view (very specific criteria, I know). My search was inspired by the description of the staircase gong throughout the silo in Wool’s story. […]
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“California” Alternate Book Cover

by @eafinto

| apocalypse, apocalyptic, California, cover, design, designassignments, DesignAssignments2187, ds106, novel, post-apocalyptic, Syndicated, wilderness, Writing Assignments
February 25, 2018

One of my design assignments from this week was to create an alternate book cover for the post-apocalyptic novel I am reading this semester! The book I chose to read was California by Edan Lepucki. I have just barely started this novel, but thanks to the upcoming spring break, I will have plenty of time to read […]
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Trapped in a Jacket

by @cypherpunk106

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February 24, 2018

Hello everybody! One of my assignments today was to create an alternative book cover for “Oryx and Crake”, the novel I am reading this semester. I was tasked to use design concepts I have learned this week in... Read More
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World War Z – New 2018 Cover!

by @KatieHartraft

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February 23, 2018

I have created my own cover for the book World War Z by Max Brooks! Below is the original cover: And here is my cover: I tried making my version less gritty (except for the Earth) and more modern, since much of the book looks retrospectively at the past […]
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Special edition Vonnegut cover!

by @ShaBoy_Daniel

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February 23, 2018

At first the finch was supposed to be smaller and in the middle of the book. This giant finch just seemed to work better!
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California Book Cover

by @Sam_ara106

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February 23, 2018

The book cover I created for California is not too different from the original, but I think it tells a lot more about the plot than the forest that the real cover depicts. In my initial Canva search, I found many abandoned places. This one caught my eye because of the nature that the couple is […]
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The Book of the Unnamed Midwife – Alternate Cover

by @Anne Armour

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February 22, 2018

This is my alternate cover for the book I chose for this class: The Book of the Unnamed Midwife. I had a lot of fun…
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Alternative Book Cover

by @umwequestrianista

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February 22, 2018

Honestly, the dog in this book is the most important character, he deserves to be on the cover and also I wanted to portray its about zombies lol. Without a companion of some sort I think the apocalypse would be much harder to get through
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