Graphic Design students (year two) have been assigned to work with Shakespeare and book covers, a series of three. During autumn, the students had a crash course about Shakespeare by Magnus Nilsson, professor in literature, and Sara Bjärstorp, head of department and senior lecturer in English Literature. Magnus and Sara gave the students three quotes for inspiration:
And thus I clothe my naked villany
With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Richard III, Act I, scene 3
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
Iago in Othello, Act II, scene 3
But manhood is melted into curtsies, valor into S
compliment, and men are only turned into tongue,
and trim ones, too. He is now as valiant as Hercules that only tells a lie and swears it. I cannot be a man with wishing; therefore I will die a woman with grieving.
Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV, scene 1
This week the students presented their work in the form of a book fair. Magnus and Sara were invited again to see the result and give feedback to the students’ work.
