Timeline for How does one design a children's book?
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| Oct 23, 2012 at 22:08 | comment | added | Henrik | Childrens books is not a format, or an aesthetic. Surely there seems to be a lot of repeating patterns, but I think there's an industry waiting for books (and content) that does quite the contrary to what this answer proposes. I strongly believe that most kids (thanks to their vast curiousity) have the capability to completely adore unique stuff, and originality. So, go ahead and defy any stenciled ways of thinking, especially when it comes to kids books. | |
| Oct 10, 2012 at 9:46 | comment | added | user56reinstatemonica8 | "The companie(s) who are printing the book will automaticly resize the document to their standards" seems particularly crazy. The size, shape and feel of a children's book is one of the most important parts of its design. If you're not deciding the dimensions, at the very least, you should know what they are going to be. Designing at a random arbitrary size then leaving it to the printers to crop or deform the images into shape seems crazy. "Imagine: 'How would I react on this layout when I was a child' " is good advice... But it shouldn't replace testing with real kids. | |
| Oct 10, 2012 at 3:15 | comment | added | DA01 | I'm sorry, but this is a really poor answer. Yellow green and blue? The size suggestion is arbitrary and the 'children don't like dark and mysterious' tends to ignore Maurice Sendack's entire career. | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 19:25 | vote | accept | PearsonArtPhoto | ||
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| Feb 4, 2011 at 21:27 | comment | added | user500 | I'd recommend a horizontal lay-out, i.e. height < width. Unless your illustrations are vertical, of course. :) | |
| Feb 4, 2011 at 17:28 | history | answered | Joris | CC BY-SA 2.5 |