Here are a few photos from the launch of the engineering colouring book. It was a really fun day with lots of people interacting with the work. There were 10,000 copies of the book to give away! There was lots of good feedback from all types of people, young and old. Kerry has been a great leader in this project which I feel has contributed massively to the success of the project.
The remainder of these books are going to be given out to schools all across the north. Many teachers visited the event and spoke about their interest in it, they wanted to have a massive colouring page of their own and they wanted to have some books for their classes.
Kerry has been a great leader in this and her passion to see it move forward has given us massive opportunities, opportunities that we wouldn't be able to achieve ourself. Working as a team proved a task at times but the majority was very easy and straightforward. The minor difficulties that we experienced were towards the start where we had to decide on a format for the work that would be used consistently by all of us. We also had to try make sure our 'styles' look consistent- we did this by deciding on a similar line weight. This drew all the pieces together.
Something that I learnt whilst doing this project is that each client it different and has a ranging level of knowledge in art/design. With Kerry, she had little knowledge in this which made creating work that she liked easy. However it also meant that the vocabulary that we used needed to be tailored to her- for example we couldn't just speak about a line weight or reference a font by name. The art/design lingo was kept to minimum to ensure that Kerry understood all that was being said.
Kerry is hoping to take the book to more shopping centres due to the success of the launch at Trinity. Meadowhall is the next hopefully according to Kerry. I would be pleased with this as it just creates more and more exposure for us as illustrators and also more awareness of the purpose of the book - to make children understand what engineering is more.
Kerry has been a great leader in this and her passion to see it move forward has given us massive opportunities, opportunities that we wouldn't be able to achieve ourself. Working as a team proved a task at times but the majority was very easy and straightforward. The minor difficulties that we experienced were towards the start where we had to decide on a format for the work that would be used consistently by all of us. We also had to try make sure our 'styles' look consistent- we did this by deciding on a similar line weight. This drew all the pieces together.
Something that I learnt whilst doing this project is that each client it different and has a ranging level of knowledge in art/design. With Kerry, she had little knowledge in this which made creating work that she liked easy. However it also meant that the vocabulary that we used needed to be tailored to her- for example we couldn't just speak about a line weight or reference a font by name. The art/design lingo was kept to minimum to ensure that Kerry understood all that was being said.
Kerry is hoping to take the book to more shopping centres due to the success of the launch at Trinity. Meadowhall is the next hopefully according to Kerry. I would be pleased with this as it just creates more and more exposure for us as illustrators and also more awareness of the purpose of the book - to make children understand what engineering is more.
I was also the photographer for the day and will continue to do photography for them throughout Leeds Festival of Science.
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