For this project, we were asked to pick three of our favorite short stories and to design spreads as if we were showcasing them in a short story magazine.
This spread features "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe. I used a photograph that I took in my photography course as the main image in the layout. In my photography course, I spent most of my time taking black and white photographs in a cemetery for my core project. I felt that this photo I captured the tone of the story perfectly.
This spread features "Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates. I pulled an image I took of an painting I did for my color theory class and used it as the illustration featured in this layout. I mirrored the image on the left and right sides of the spread to create the illusion of devil horns. The villain in this story is meant to be a representation of the devil, so I tried to play into that theme.
This spread features "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Again, I pulled an image I took of a painting I made in my color theory class. I chose a primarily yellow painting to represent the yellow wallpaper of the room depicted in the story.