Monday, April 9, 2007

Assignment 7: Storybook Design (Group Project)

Exercise:
  • Design and prepare a story book for children (Ages 6 to 9)
  • Number of pages - around 12
  • Do not use more than 900 words for copy (story)
  • Prepare design document
  • Book Size: 7 X 8.5 inches

This is the last assignment of this course, which is going to last for 3 weeks. I teamed up with Natasha again for this group assignment. Natasha managed to find a good existing children story book by Max Lucado entitled "You are Special". It is a very meaningful story so we decided to adapted the concept and came out with our own story.

We brainstormed some ideas and eventually agreed on using the concept of robots in our story. So our main character Ron the little robot is borned!

We initially wanted to make our book layout to be one page of text on the left, and one page of pictures on the right, keeping it consistent and simple for children to read. But after getting some feedback from the lecturer, we decided to change the idea into a mixture of pictures and text on each page while following a grid layout.

Also, with much consideration, we decided to make our storybook into a colouring book as well. So, only the main character Ron will be coloured throughout the book. (Due to some technical difficulties, I can't upload the images of the final design...)