I decided to take a visit to the Book Hive in Norwich to take a look at what children's illustrated books there are on the market at the moment. To look at how they have looked imagery, its placement and relationship with text...
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| 'Little Red Riding Hood' by Marjolaine Leray. |
This was a nice little book, with 'sketchy' illustrations of the tale contains very little text and lots of white space. Using a colour palette of black and red, relies on the visuals rather than the text to tell tell the narrative.
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| 'Walk the Way' by Lotto Neimenen. |
This book stood out as it is very graphic compared to some of the illustrations in story books. Bright colours and considered layout for where text is placed.
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Text on one page, illustration on next...
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| Pedro Serapicos |
The handwritten type in this book relates to the 'style' of the illustrations in this book. Not formal layout put text space considered within image.
Printing!! Interesting layout and involvement with text within the image.
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| 'A River of Stories' by Joan Pienkowski |
This book is for an older child or teen. Quite a lot of text with a few illustrations throughout. Bold, colour backgrounds with silhouettes on top. Similar to what I have been looking at within my work and also in Tales of the Night animation.
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Book that I happened to see on a person's desk and though that it would be great for both my studio and research report projects. So I have requested an inter-loan for it from the University library!
Was good to go to the Book Hive and just have a browse through the children's section as their collection contains more artistic books rather than just traditional young children book art, which tend to be different into the way they've been drawn and materials not being so soft. I wanted to also look at the layouts and relationship of text and image in the books thinking about what I could do with my own work. Looking at how the text has been arranged in the image itself as well as beside it.
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