http://redpaperbooks.com Book Design, Illustration and Editing Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:53:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Working on this puzzle book right now. It’s really good fun, using the artist Beccy Blake again because I know I’ll she will do a great job. Hopefully we can keep the budget down with thoughtful reuse of her illustrations. It will be sold straight into outlets like The Works. Funny how I used to more »]]> http://redpaperbooks.com/totally-brilliant-puzzler/ http://redpaperbooks.com/qeb-qedget-ready-for-grade-1/ A quick A5 theatre flyer designed for Deafinitely Theatre/Tricycle Theatre]]> http://redpaperbooks.com/deafinitely-theatre-the-boy-and-the-statue/ http://redpaperbooks.com/penguin-active-readers-covers/ Although I like seeing finished artwork when it comes in, I get more excited earlier in the process, on receipt of roughs. I think it is because though the final artwork is usually very accomplished it is in the roughs that the draftsmanship can be seen. So here are a few recent examples: Nick Hardcastle: more »]]> http://redpaperbooks.com/illustrators-roughs/ This book is part of the Penguin Active Readers ELT series for 2010, published by Pearson Education. Three short stories by H.G. Wells: The Country of the Blind, The Door in the Wall, The Young Ghost. ]]> http://redpaperbooks.com/penguin-active-readers-stories-of-other-worlds/ This is a buy-in from an Australian publisher. The text was good and we were asked to repackage the book with Firecrest's artwork to produce new layouts.]]> http://redpaperbooks.com/firecrest-project-learning-mammals/ Abacus Evolve is a versatile and customizable maths course produced by Heinemann.]]> http://redpaperbooks.com/heinemann-abacus-maths/ 2nd stage/level of Oxford Reading Tree Snapdragons. ]]> http://redpaperbooks.com/oxford-reading-tree-snapdragons-2/ Lavish fold-out books describing animals and plants in their habitats. A beautiful fold-out spread pictures the flora and fauna of the habitat, and subsequent pages work through each example. ]]> http://redpaperbooks.com/firecrest-day-and-night-everglades/