For this project, I designed a book cover for the title “Me Talk Pretty One Day.” My images refer to a specific chapter I was assigned that focused on the hardship of learning a new language, and the trivial success felt when you begin to understand and speak the language less than fluently, but nonetheless, understand what you can.

This is one of the projects I feel I worked more on development rather than final product. Two of the images here depict my dog fighting for a stick. This reflects the struggle or hardship. Once she has the stick, she can’t do anything with it. But she still wants it. Winning the stick is a trivial success that I feel reflects the chapter.

The third image is of a lone white rose. The thought behind this one was that having one beautiful flower is a trivial success. A flower has no practical use, like being half fluent in a language, but nevertheless you feel proud of it.

James Chavez Sanchez – Book Cover

As you can see if you click the link to the final cover I chose, I created certificates with deprecating awards, such as “The Maybe Next Time Award” or “The Try Again Award.” This is an attempt to reference the futility of being half fluent, but also trying to capture the comedy in the chapter which ends with a misstated sentence.  I feel I could have designed the titles better but I was so focused on developing the imagery, there was little time for title design.