Client: Young Hobbyists
Project: Design and Illustrate a “How-To” Pamphlet
Student Project, Illustrator Class
With the aim to get kids (grade school age and pre-adolescents) interested in technical photography and spending more time outdoors, I designed an instructional pamphlet on how to photograph the moon. The project was inspired by my own interest and attempt to take a picture of the moon, and can also be the basis for an app or an e-book.
The design goals were to:
Make the pamphlet visually engaging by creating a playful tone with cute, whimsical illustrations.
Use as much imagery as possible to avoid having the instructions be text heavy. The instructions can be very technical, so the use of text is unavoidable. The images helped instruct and break up text.
Make the pamphlet user friendly with bullet points, a table, and the universal symbols of check and strike mark (“X”) to indicate “correct” and “wrong.”
Make the pamphlet visually engaging by creating a playful tone with cute, whimsical illustrations.
Use as much imagery as possible to avoid having the instructions be text heavy. The instructions can be very technical, so the use of text is unavoidable. The images helped instruct and break up text.
Make the pamphlet user friendly with bullet points, a table, and the universal symbols of check and strike mark (“X”) to indicate “correct” and “wrong.”
(Above) Detail from an instructional panel, showing the phases of the moon.
(Above) An e-book version of the pamphlet.
