The book
In this project, junior-level students question and challenge the norms surrounding conventional book design. Classic literature is utilized for content. Students are given a list of well-known story titles from which they get to choose one of them. Four phases then ensue. However, the descriptions of phases are held from students until the time they begin each phase. This process, of unknowing information until needed, has proven to lessen pre-conceived design machinations and to facilitate type experimentation and less expected compositions. Textual language is deconstructed and then reconstructed through semiotics and visual language.






Fahrenheit 451 | UIC student: Salvador Quiroz






Frankenstein | UIC student: Barbara Kennedy






Animal Farm | UIC student: Andrea Guerrero






Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | UIC student: Ryan Hernandez






The Metamorphosis | UIC student: Robert Kay






Sense and Sensibility | UIC student: Kenneth Randall






The Black Cat | UIC student: Jennifer Manning









The Time Machine | UIC student: Felisha Linklater









Frankenstein | UIC student: William Dutton












The War of the Worlds | UIC student: Casey Rooney
In the following examples from Guy’s students at Columbia College Chicago and DePaul University, some students elected to work with a favorite book rather than a classic. Additionally, Guy had his students incorporate a second text into their work — Reading Isotype by Ellen Lupton.






The Stranger | DePaul University student: Tyler Gobberdiel






The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Columbia College Chicago student: Janessa Torres






Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Columbia College Chicago student: Daria Percy






Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Columbia College Chicago student: Hannah Davila






Frankenstein | Columbia College Chicago student: Sloane Michel






The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Columbia College Chicago student: Oscar Salgado






American Gods | Columbia College Chicago student: Rita Fisher






A Single Man | Columbia College Chicago student: Jared Sawdey









Alan Wake | Columbia College Chicago student: Ben Sliwa






Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Columbia College Chicago student: Ronny Baker









Seymour | Columbia College Chicago student: Landry Miller