Strengths
- Good concept
- Different idea to everyone else
- Challenge for yourself to design for a younger audience
Areas For Improvement
- Narrow your target audience down further - make it more specific. Kids aged 6-12 have very different mental capabilities!
- Make sure that your design considerations are suitable for your target audience
- Try to avoid anything unsafe, e.g. linocutting
Considerations
- Look at key stages at school. Could you aim your book at schools?
- Look at younger and older children for comparison
- Could produce a range of books - maybe for different ages / key stages
- What are they doing in schools at certain key stages?
- What is necessary?
Action Plan
- research into key stages at schools and the learning outcomes for art subjects
- contact teachers / head teachers of primary and secondary schools and ask them about teaching children art and printing methods
- try out printing methods for yourself and consider what younger children would be able to take part in - make sure you choose safe ones!
- decide whether you'll produce a print pack, a set of books or simply one book. what will be included in the books? what would come with the print pack? how big will the pack be?
- research your target audience and what they would be interested in - in terms of design, interaction, language, tone of voice, colours, general aesthetics etc
