Based on the idea of hand gestures and movement communicate through sign language, we thought it would be both fun and appropriate to produce a pop-up style book for the publication brief. We decided to aim it towards children as we believe that if it was taught whilst young, it'll be something they can carry on throughout their lives.
Hervé Tullet - Blind Children Workshops
I came across this illustrator looking for pop-up and interactive books and found it fascinating that he does a load of workshops and interacting with children through his books as a platform. Below are a few photos from his website (linked above) of his creative workshop with blind children. Although this is about blind children, I still believe it's relevant to creating work for deaf children as it's about overcoming what people may view as a handicap (losing one of their senses) and still being creative in a tactile manner. Instead of using their sight, they're using their hands to feel and create something visual in their own right just like how instead of using hearing, deaf use their hands to gesture and communicate. Though this may be pushing it a bit far from ideas around sign language, I could still use this thought process towards my research report as it is relevant to my current topic surround child development.
Marion Bataille - ABC3D
I find Bataille's innovation inspiring when I was researching pop-up books. The engineering behind each page turn and the simplicity in the design is something I'd really like for our book to have. By keeping the design basic, we concentrate solely onto how we interact with the book in order to read it, and I think for us that's important because our book is suppose to be informative of sign language and easy legibility in understanding out to perform the sign.
Oliver Jeffers - Jeffers, O. (2009) The incredible book eating boy. London: HarperCollins Children’s Books.
This was one of the books that we saw physically and it became our foundation for understanding how to create paper mechanisms. We gave the book a very close inspection in order to understand why certain pop-ups and interactions behaved the way they did when performing the action needed. By understanding these, we were able to create the mechanisms ourselves.
TigerCreate - Digital Publish Suite for Interactive and Animated Books.
Whilst looking into interactive books, I came across this software that can turn a book made for print, into a digital interactive book. I though this was quite intriguing to look into to because we are in the digital age and thought of it as a different perspective if we were to develop our publication further, perhaps for the event itself. App's on touch screen devices is becoming more and more popular and could be an outlook we may want to approach because it still involves hands to be tactile and moving, alike sign language. It would also make it accessible from their own devices, making our work portable and mobile to be looked at again in the future, and not only at the event. ![]()
Above were prototypes of how to incorporate relevant paper mechanisms to the question words as seen in Oliver Jeffers book. The group were happy with my contribution for 'Why' and 'How', but found that 'When' lacked the right mechanism for the gesture. I went back to the book and thought that the 'flip-book' style mechanism would be more difficult to craft but appropriate for presenting the gesture needed to sign 'When'. I drew this digitally with inked lines to keep it uniformed with Yury's styled hands that he drew for the publication. The reason why I chose digital was because I found that it would save time by erasing and redrawing the fingers individually quick using layers in Photoshop rather than tracing each frame.
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