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Illustrators and Promoters of Children’s Books in China

By Xian Wang

October 21, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Illustrators and Promoters of Children’s Books in China

Reading is important in the school Can Ran founded for children. She believes a book acts as a boat, sailing to the inner world of a child, and that reading can help children become sensitive to this world and use their own language to describe their feelings.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: children's books, children's rhymes in books, china publishing, illustration, illustrators in China, images in children's books, Indigenous illustrators, international, promoters for children's books, reading to children

A Brief Guide to Children’s Book Design

By Jennifer Ladwig

June 19, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

A Brief Guide to Children’s Book Design

Picture books have evolved over time to serve different agendas, from educational, such as teaching the alphabet, to more “edgy” topics in recent years, such as tackling what it’s like to be a child of divorce. With every change, however, one thing remains consistent: the design of a children’s book must keep a child interested and entice them to turn the page.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: Art, children's books, Children's literature, Design, illustration, illustrations, picture, Picture book, young readers

Wait, There’s a Difference? Book Designers vs. Illustrators

By Jenny Kimura

September 23, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Wait, There’s a Difference? Book Designers vs. Illustrators

Whereas fine art (such as illustration) looks inward by asking the viewer to see the artist behind the art, graphic design looks outward by asking the viewer to see the art and go do something because of it. While these two concepts overlap in places, the purpose of each is very different.

Filed Under: Design, Manager Monday Tagged With: Art, artist, book covers, book design, book interiors, Design, designer, graphic design, graphic designer, illustration, Illustrator

The Dawn of the Publishing GIF

By Esa Grigsby

May 27, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Dawn of the Publishing GIF

It’s the dawn of the publishing GIF. If you pay enough attention, you’ll be able to feel it in the air: the buzzing, looping electricity that knows no bounds. It uses ebooks and the internet to infiltrate our homes and our minds, and once there, it stays and lays low, playing over and over and over again until it’s time. And, my friends, it is almost time.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: book gifs, digital, eBooks, enhanced ebooks, gif, gif artists, gif illustration, gif illustrators, illustration, publishing tech, publishing technology, publishing trends, technology in publishing

Mapping Literary Landscapes: Designing Diagrams for Ricochet River and At The Waterline

By Leigh Thomas @leighkaisen

February 6, 2017 by Digital Content Leave a Comment

Mapping Literary Landscapes: Designing Diagrams for Ricochet River and At The Waterline

If you’re of the bookish persuasion (and if you’re reading this blog post, the odds are probably good), you may also be of the mappish persuasion: when you pick up a book and discover it contains a map, a little piece of you erupts in excitement over this double-page spread that promises a literary quest is waiting inside.

Filed Under: Design, Manager Monday, Publishing Tagged With: At the Waterline, book production, Design, design process, diagrams, illustration, maps, Pacific Northwest, Ricochet River

Comics Events Two Ways: Emerald City Comicon and Linework NW offer different experiences for fans, creators

By Bess Pallares besspallares

September 2, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Comics Events Two Ways: Emerald City Comicon and Linework NW offer different experiences for fans, creators

Within just a few weeks of each other, two comics-related events were held this spring in Seattle and Portland, offering different opportunities for fans and creators alike to celebrate nerd culture and embrace comic art and illustration. As a comics fan and editor, I was excited to have easier access to comics conventions after moving […]

Filed Under: Ooligan at large Tagged With: cartooning, Comic Books, Comic-Con, comics, ECCC, Emerald City Comicon, illustration, Linework, Linework NW, Portland, Seattle

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