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The Andrew Brodie Improving Vocabulary series comprised of six titles for Key Stages 1 and 2, age 5 to 11.
I designed a concept to include three characters appearing in the header at the top of each page, simultaneously. That was a lot of bespoke artworks for each heading of a six part series, each 128 pages in length.
Below is a rough character sheet I included with the spec design to introduce the characters to the publishing team. Bloomsbury loved it.
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Layout ideas showing the relation between the artwork and the headings.
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Final pages of the 'Jabberwocky' section of a title.
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As well as the header artworks, there were also page artworks to produce as well. And there were a lot!
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Plus full page artworks.
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Chapter openers...
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I loved every minute of this project.
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