INITIAL IDEAS

Having spent the last lecture looking into additional elements and paper engineering, I decided to begin my ideas by looking into which aspects of this that I could include in my work.

This sketch shows a design for a sort of cross between 'Wreck This Journal' and 'The Dangerous Book for Boys', with a mix of traditional line drawings and paper engineering, in this case tear out strips to create kindling. On the left hand side of the spread is the information about building a fire.

This is an identification style book aimed at a younger audience, making use of lift-the-flaps and could also use pull tabs and other paper engineering techniques. In this example the child is asked 'what lays an egg like that?', and when they lift the flap that bears the picture of the egg it reveals the animal that laid the egg.

This is a sort of combination of the two styles above. The first spread takes an informative, reference-style, approach to an activity, in this case how to build a treehouse. The second features a pop-up showing the finished article.

At the moment these are very rough ideas just focused on bringing extra features into the book, and as I need to pitch the idea to the client in a few weeks I will need to research more around the subject to decide on the approach to take and the age group to aim at.