TASK 2 - Appropriate art style

 

 

Informative research title

 

The key word that springs to mind for me when thinking about informative research title's is accuracy when it comes to the illustrations/designs. This is not the correct place to use abstract or visual metaphors unless fully explained. The illustrations will naturally feflect on the subject matter and a realistic style would benefit here. At the time time however, if the illustrations are too boring and dry, the readers interest could be lost, so a good balance should be had.

 

Example

 

The Puffin Practical Books set is a set of short books teaching children a range of skills such as cooking, fixing a bike, creating things and social skills. All the illustrations are realistic yet colourfull and well designed.

 

Baby/Toddler

 

Illustrations for Baby/Toddlers should be more simple and less detailed so that the baby/Toddler can quickly identify the shapes/information that's meant to be delivered. The illustrations should also be large and clearly identifiable. That's not to say the illustrations should be of any less quality then other books and a level of illustratioal and graphical design skills still needs to be present when organizing a page. Visual metaphors and abstract illustrations should be avoided as the meanings will be lost to such a young age group.

 

Example

 

The Spot the Dog books by Eric Hill are a timeless collection of well thought out yet simple illustrations, teaching children shapes, colours and numbers (to name a few).

 

 

Picture book

 

Picture books for young ages and vary a lot in structure and style, there are many different examples of successful picture books that are very different to each other so i find identifying an exact "Correct" style challenging. In my view, the illustrations should reflect what ever the chosen theme of the book is and often or not is also reflected on what country the book is written/illustrated in.

 

Example

 

Eric Carle is known known famously for "The Hungry Caterpillar" book but he also wrote and illustrated a large verity of quality and imainative childrens books. My favourite being "The Bad Tempered Ladybird", a classic book with amazing and creative illustrations.