Projects 2 & 3 Initial Ideas

For the next two projects I'm going to go with the dinner party invitation and the dada poem projects. I'm still somewhat torn about doing the book series instead of the dinner party invitation, but I will most likely go with the dinner party invitation. I am attracted to the dada poem project because the process is intriguing and dadaism is awesome, I always enjoyed studying dada in my art history classes. The works of John Heartfield, Marcel Duchamp, Many Ray, Max Ernst, George Grosz, Hannah Hoch, etc. were intriguing to me. The whole notion of dada is awesome, even that it still remains ambiguous in a way. I like the fact that it challenges not only culture but art itself. Anyway, another reason I like this project is the fact that it focuses on motion, and that we will be looking at a lot of example of type in motion as this is something I want to experiment with and learn more about. I really want to get adobe after effects and start learning it.
For the dinner party invitation I think it would be fun to do something that is satirical. Like a 2012 dine till the end of time theme. With an aztec stylistic treatment maybe. But the more I think about the dinner invitation, the more I want to do the book designs. The book project might give me the opportunity to explore some books I haven't read and make visual design's based off my interpretation of them. I like the literary aspect of the book project but also it would be a nice piece for my portfolio, I have done some book jacket design but none I'm super stoked on, so this would give me a chance to really make something cool. So I'm definitely going to do the dada project and am still deciding between the books and the invitation, probably the books, so I'm going to review the book assignment specs and sleep on it for now.