I didn’t do my homework because...
Design and art direction for a best-selling and bouyant kids book
Homework is a children’s book aimed at engaging reluctant young readers through deadpan humor and vintage-style illustration.
Working closely with the editor and illustrator, I developed the book design and art-directed the project from early thumbnail sketches and manuscript to final galleys in production. In a dialogue with the talented illustrator Benjamin Chaud, I provided constructive feedback in an iterative process. I helped shape the individual illustrations to look at the finished book as a whole, with an emphasis on pacing, color palette, and compositions.
The book comprises a series of episodic illustrations so it was my goal to create a unified theme for the cover, endpapers, and front matter.
Illustration: Benjamin Chaud, Author: Davide Cali, Editor: Naomi Kirsten, Publisher: Chronicle Books