Creating Picturebooks for Young Readers

Overview

“Now I'm going to talk to you about artists that I like and who have somehow opened my eyes regarding how to communicate with images.”

In this video lesson maria_ramos addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Picturebooks for Young Readers. Experiment with illustration and learn how to tell children's stories through images.

Partial transcription of the video

“Influences Now I'll talk to you about authors I like and about books that made me work in picturebooks. I'll start with Bruno Munari, an artist I met when I was studying Fine Art, who also dedicated part of his career to doing books for children. He was a designer and visual artist and when he addressed children he liked to create a dialogue with them and make games out of books. This is "El libro ilegible". As you can see, there's no text. It's an aesthetic game in which each page has a shape with a different composition, he played with the colors. It's as if the book were music and on eac...”

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Course summary for: Creating Picturebooks for Young Readers

• Level: Beginner
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• 1261 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (1h 25m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Children's Illustration, Collage, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Storyboard, Traditional illustration