Visual Literacy

In Mrs. Sanderl's 7th period class we did a project were we folded a book in to a word. The process to this project was that we first started off with a word that had to be 4 letters or less. Then we printed out the word with gray and white lines. We had to count each line that was on the paper. We then chose a book that had more pages then the number we counted on the paper. Then we started folding. Isaac Salazar, the creator of book folding, has been folding since October 2009. He first started off doing simple letters, then he moved up to more complex words. Visual Literacy is the ability to make meaning from information presented in the form of an image. It's based on the idea that pictures can be read. Visual Literacy is used in this project because when you make a word, people have to figure out the meaning of your word.

For my books, I chose the words "Life", and "Love". Both of my books have different fonts, the first font had a curvy flow to it. The second book "Love" had a simple font, I think I did it a simple font because the first book was really hard because my font was hard to follow. Overall for my two books, I folded about 300 pages each. The purpose for the words I chose were that Life is what people live, and Love is what people have.

In the end I think my books turned out really good. Next time I would try to fold my pages a little nicer because some of them are off by a little. If I were to do this project again, I would choose another word. The word I would do would be my name, but I want to do one letter per book. The reason I want to do it that way is I've never tried it that way, and I think it would look cool and interesting.