Visual Communication 4th Year, Bezalel
Merav Salomon
This is a short studio assignment in a 4th year Visual Communication Department during the “Visual Storytelling” studio. The assignment takes place just before the students start working on their personal book, a 7-week project at the end of their B.A. program, so there are a lot of insecurities and difficulties in starting the process.
The “A Book In An Hour” assignment invites the student to a very rapid and free design by doing processes where they must create (illustrate mostly)a book in one hour.
It is being done by providing them with small (cheap) notebooks and a list of words. Each student chooses a random word (sometimes we even just let them pick words out a hat), and by using their intuition, creativity, and exploration they must alter and produce an entire book about or referring to the word they chose.
By completing a book in an hour, student experience their ability to deliver a task in such a short time, and their effectiveness as creators. They realize their self-efficacy to be creative under limitations. They explore ideas through doing rather than conceptualizing. They learn to create through play & risk-taking.