Children’s Picturebooks
This website showcases the work in progress on the Miga's Secret project. Miga’s Secret is an illustrated an animated nursery rhyme, accessible through a set of seven concertina picture books and an interactive mobile application. The idea and project is initiated by Art Director and Motion Designer Monika Rohner.
Storytelling, Animation, Picture-book, Transmedia, Interaction, Interactive game elements, Nursery-Rhyme, Childern, Design, Illustration, Magpie, One for sorrow, Work in Progress, Project Development, Portfolio
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Children’s Picturebooks

2014-07-14 In Research

Children’s Picturebooks

Somebody asked me if it would be an option to create a picture book with the Magpie images. I liked the idea and started to research picturebooks and picturebook illustration and found this amazing book by Martin Salisbury and Morag Styles: “Children’s Picturebooks – The art of visual storytelling”

It’s well written, with a lot of beautiful examples and images. And just yesterday I came across a passage I’d like to share here:

Chapter 4 – Word and Image, Word as Image
“In most contexts, illustration provides a visual accompaniment to words, a promt or aid to the imagination that aims to augment the overall experience of a book. But in the case of picturebooks, words and pictures combine to deliver the overall meaning of the book; neither of them necessarily makes much sense on its own but they work in unison. And the most satisfying picturebooks create a dynamic relationship between words and pictures. Often this duality can be in the form of a playful dance, where images and words can appear to flirt with and contradict each other.”

Children’s Picturebooks on Amazon
More about the book on Brain Pickings

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