Made from a green velvet fabric and a large “potion spill”-acrylic panit. My final tactile application was the book case. to avoid too many blank pages and to give another point of interest I reversed the images on the other side of the page. I sculpted letters and laid them out to spell each chapter name, I photographed them to cast a large shadow and applied the same technique of printing and photographing as I did for the cover art. My second tactile application was the chapter headers. I wanted this book to be vintage and gothic so the cover fabric is velvet and I added gold foil detailing- all by hand. The holes represent peep holes because doors are used as symbolism in the book. I made the hard cover from 2 pieces of chipboard layered together, one with a hole cut out and the other with a photo of the eye in the same place. I photographed them, printed them out, transferred the image onto wood and then photographed them again. I crafted 2 eyes our of clay 1 was a normal seeming eye and the other was an evil version of the eye. I wanted it to be somewhat ambiguous, avoiding any spoilers. My first tactile application was the cover art. The subject of this book makes it almost mandatory to use such a juxtaposition in design, but I wanted mine version to stand out. Jekyll with either a shadow or a split face of Mr. The cover had an illustration of a normal man, Dr.

After looking at different versions of this book I noticed they were all pretty similar. Hyde because it was a book I had read before and it was relatively short- there was a rough word count to stick to. I chose to redesign the Strange Case of Dr. In 2018 he was ranked, just behind Charles Dickens, as the 26th-most-translated author in the world.Redesign a classic novel and include 3 applications of tactile design. He died in his island home in 1894 at age 44.Ī celebrity in his lifetime, Stevenson's critical reputation has fluctuated since his death, though today his works are held in general acclaim. In 1890, he settled in Samoa where, alarmed at increasing European and American influence in the South Sea islands, his writing turned away from romance and adventure fiction toward a darker realism.

As a young man, he mixed in London literary circles, receiving encouragement from Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie Stephen and W. E. Henley, the last of whom may have provided the model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island.

He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses.īorn and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life, but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in defiance of his poor health. Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer.

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