Each workbook covers 3 of the Boffin Boy titles and develops comprehension of the stories and encourages imaginative exploration of the themes and ideas in them.

The covers and pages all reuse the book artworks, extracting and recombining them to make new images. The exercises in the workbooks are also mediated by characters from the stories. So plenty of opportunities to make good use of the artwork throughout to keep the costs down.

The artist is Peter Richardson.

Each workbook covers 3 of the Boffin Boy titles and develops comprehension of the stories and encourages imaginative exploration of the themes and ideas in them.

The covers and pages all reuse the book artworks, extracting and recombining them to make new images. The exercises in the workbooks are also mediated by characters from the stories. So plenty of opportunities to make good use of the artwork throughout to keep the costs down.

The artist is Peter Richardson.

The second series of Boffin Boy brought the total number of books to 12. Peter’s Adobe Illustrator artwork is great to work with – we don’t have to think too hard about print resolution as we pull elements out of the page illustrations to combine them to make the cover designs, the incidental pictures in the prelims,  as well as the workbooks. They work well with the page layouts in Adobe Indesign, I really don’t see how we could go back to Quark.

The second series includes my favourite story so far, Boffin Boy and the Ice Caves of Pluto.

The second series of Boffin Boy brought the total number of books to 12. Peter’s Adobe Illustrator artwork is great to work with – we don’t have to think too hard about print resolution as we pull elements out of the page illustrations to combine them to make the cover designs, the incidental pictures in the prelims,  as well as the workbooks. They work well with the page layouts in Adobe Indesign, I really don’t see how we could go back to Quark.

The second series includes my favourite story so far, Boffin Boy and the Ice Caves of Pluto.

Red Paper Design offer design project management of children’s books & software for education, ELT, and trade markets. We are a partnership at our core, but are flexible enough to accommodate large projects through our extensive contacts with editorial, illustrative, and photographic expertise.

We are based in Oxfordshire and include major and minor publishers in our client list including Oxford University Press, Penguin, Pearson, Macmillan, Harcourt, Parragon, Quarto, Firecrest, and Ransom. We also design books for self-publishing authors. 

If you would like us to work with you on a project please contact John Walker on 01235 364080.

Red Paper Design offer design project management of children’s books & software for education, ELT, and trade markets. We are a partnership at our core, but are flexible enough to accommodate large projects through our extensive contacts with editorial, illustrative, and photographic expertise.

We are based in Oxfordshire and include major and minor publishers in our client list including Oxford University Press, Penguin, Pearson, Macmillan, Harcourt, Parragon, Quarto, Firecrest, and Ransom. We also design books for self-publishing authors. 

If you would like us to work with you on a project please contact John Walker on 01235 364080.

The second of the Totally Brilliant Puzzle series; another 208 page marathon to produce. Written, designed and illustrated very much on-the-fly, which is a very different experience from getting a complete manuscript from the start. But Lisa‘s careful planning and amazing speed kept me sane. That, and the fact that at least the design features were pretty much fixed by the first book.

The two books are also combined into a Bumper puzzle book.

The second of the Totally Brilliant Puzzle series; another 208 page marathon to produce. Written, designed and illustrated very much on-the-fly, which is a very different experience from getting a complete manuscript from the start. But Lisa‘s careful planning and amazing speed kept me sane. That, and the fact that at least the design features were pretty much fixed by the first book. The two books are also combined into a bumper puzzle book,  The Totally Brilliant Super Puzzle Book.

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Brilliant fun to be involved with this project. These were a total reworking of older material to often completely different stories to bring about strictly phonically decode-able graphic stories for the Bug Club reading scheme.

They seem to be only available direct from the publisher. And in compliance with the publisher’s wishes I am just showing what is available on their website.

Brilliant fun to be involved with this project. These were a total reworking of older material to often completely different stories to bring about strictly phonically decode-able graphic stories for the Bug Club reading scheme.

They seem to be only available direct from the publisher, and in compliance with the publisher’s wishes I am just showing what is available on their own website.

This book is the first book I got to work on with Firecrest, probably about 4 years ago, and it has only just been finished – as far as I am concerned. I don’t think it has been printed yet, because I haven’t had my copy, but it must be coming out soon. It is odd working on a book with such a long and torturous development, because you always wish that you had designed it differently. I have been able to keep the design pretty fresh, but my main problem over that time was just remembering how I had set up the working files, what application they were in and keeping them working with updated technology.

The thing I would change the most would be the cover, which I think was knocked up in a hurry for a book fair, and then stuck.

Anyway, 96 pages of fascinating facts about mammals, plenty of which I had never heard of.

This book is the first book I got to work on with Firecrest, probably about 4 years ago, and it has only just been finished – as far as I am concerned. I don’t think it has been printed yet, because I haven’t had my copy, but it must be coming out soon. It is odd working on a book with such a long and torturous development, because you always wish that you had designed it differently. I have been able to keep the design pretty fresh, but my main problem over that time was just remembering how I had set up the working files, what application they were in and keeping them working with updated technology.

The thing I would change the most would be the cover, which I think was knocked up in a hurry for a book fair, and then stuck.

Anyway, 96 pages of fascinating facts about mammals, plenty of which I had never heard of. Enquiries about the book, please consult Firecrest Publishing.

Another batch of Penguin Active Readers. Some really classic stories here including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

The scene illustrated on the cover went through several revisions as the new-born Benjamin is going to be bathed by the nurse. This is an ELT book, and sensitivities about, for instance, not showing bare feet for readers in some countries, tested my own and the artist’s patience. It reminded me of having to leave out The Three Little Pigs from a children’s story book because of other (perceived?) sensitivities.

(This one was fun; there seemed to be a lot of illustrations involving fights).

Another batch of Penguin Active Readers. These were all really classic stories with new illustrations. 

The scene illustrated on the cover of Benjamin Button went through several revisions as the new-born Benjamin is going to be bathed by the nurse. This is an ELT book, and sensitivities about, for instance, not showing bare feet for readers in some countries, tested my own and the artist’s patience. It reminded me of having to leave out The Three Little Pigs from a children’s story book because of other (perceived?) sensitivities.

Benjamin Button artist: Piers Sandford

And Then There Were None artist: Carlos Fonseca

The Scarlet Pimpernel artist: Carlo Molinari

How Green Was My Valley artist: Trystan Mitchell

Carmilla artist: David Belmonte

(This one was fun; there seemed to be a lot of illustrations involving fights).

The 208 page bumper puzzle book. Stuffed with puzzles and activities. I seemed to spend most of my time cutting out Beccy’s pictures in Photoshop so that they could be reused in different parts of the book. I wrote some useful actions to speed up this process. Thankfully her strong drawing style can stand a lot of reduction/enlargement so the overall effect was very pleasing.

The 208 page bumper puzzle book. Stuffed with puzzles and activities.

I seemed to spend most of my time cutting out Beccy’s pictures in Photoshop so that they could be reused in different parts of the book. I wrote some useful actions to speed up this process. Thankfully her strong drawing style can stand a lot of reduction/enlargement so the overall effect was very pleasing.

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Hi everyone. Redpaperdesign is long overdue an overhaul so that’s what it will get – 7/12

Hi everyone. Redpaperdesign is long overdue an overhaul so that’s what it will get – 7/12

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.

Sample spread for puzzle book

It will be sold straight into outlets like The Works. Funny how I used to suppose that if any of my books ended up somewhere like that they had reached the end of their shelf-life. No offence.

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.

Sample spread for puzzle book

It will be sold straight into outlets like The Works. Funny how I used to suppose that if any of my books ended up somewhere like that they had reached the end of their shelf-life. No offence.

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 suppose that if any of my books ended up somewhere like that they had reached the end of their shelf-life. No offence.