In this project, we were tasked to create four icons of varying complexity. These icons are all supposed to summarize a book of our choosing. I picked one of my favorite reads: The Book Thief. This classic book is set in WW2, Germany, in a small fictional town by the name of Molching. Our main character, Liesel Meminger, has been recently taken in by her foster parents, the Hubermanns. She is taught to read by her foster father, Hans, and soon ends up stealing books to read them, in opposition of Hitler's rules and obligations. Her life takes an even more interesting turn when her foster parents end up hiding a Jew in their basement...
For starters, I created a train icon, to represent how Liesel came to the town of Molching in the first place, and also where she stole her first book: by the railway line, after her little brother's death. The accordion is a symbol of hope and compassion, and it is a clear symbol of her father, who takes it everywhere he goes. The burning book is a representation of Nazi Intolerance and Censorship. It showed both the intolerance to Hitler's ideas and the blind following of them. Finally, the soldier helmet is a symbol to represent the world war itself, and is quite obvious in my opinion. To make these symbols, I used a combination of the shape maker tool, the pen tool, and the edit/effects panel to warp and change the shapes to my liking. I particularly used this to make the flames on the book and the bend of the accordion. This assignment really helped improve my skills and helped me with better composition creation. Overall, this assignment was very helpful in assisting me in getting a hang of Illustrator and its tools and I would totally do it again!
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