A richly illustrated book about a worthwhile project

Carmen Moreno Adán, Susana Osés, Raquel Peña López and Giamila QuattroneOuled Youssef, an old ksar in the M’Hamid OasisINTBAU España, 2020

Perancangan Produk Kreatif Berbasis Budaya Jawa Timur Untuk Balai Pelestarian Cagar Budaya Jawa Timur (BPCB JATIM)

Indonesia memiliki beraneka cagar budaya yang perlu dilestarikan dan dikenalkan kepada generasi muda. Salah satunya adalah Cagar Budaya Jawa Timur dengan 11.155 tinggalan purbakala, yang terdiri dari benda bergerak, benda koleksi museum, bangunan, struktur, hingga kawasan situs dari zaman Prasejarah, Hindu Budha, Islam hingga Kolonial. Balai Pelestarian Cagar Budaya (BPCB) Jawa Timur telah mengkurasi serta mengkatalogkan temuan budaya tersebut dan memerlukan sebuah strategi untuk mensosialisasikan hasil temuan arkeologi berupa cerita rakyat dan cerita fabel. Oleh karena itu BPCB Jawa Timur ingin membuat publikasi arkeologi untuk masyarakat, khususnya anak dan remaja dengan visual yang menarik sesuai selera dan tren, sekaligus mempublikasikannya di sosial media. Tujuan Kegiatan PKM ini adalah menghasilkan rancangan konten kreatif berdasarkan warisan budaya Indonesia untuk BPCB Jawa Timur yang sesuai dengan selera dan tren budaya populer yang digemari oleh masyarakat, serta membuat publikasi konten di sosial media. Metode pelaksanaan yaitu tahap Pra Perancangan menyepakati materi dan konten produk kreatif ilustrated book serta media sosialisasinya. Tahap berikutnya Perancangan yaitu melakukan proses perancangan buku Illustrated Book. Tahap terakhir Publikasi dan Sosialisasi adalah publikasi dan legalitas dari Illustrated Book Pandu Putra Kamajaya yang telah dirancang berupa pengurusan ISBN dan HKI, serta sosialisasi menggunakan media sosial berupa radio streaming dan podcast. (podcast, radio)

Dialogic Reading to Empower Executive Functions in Preschoolers

Among the interventions recently developed to enhance Executive Functions (EFs) in preschoolers, Quincey Quokka’s Quest (QQQ) is an illustrated book proposing EF activities embedded within a shared reading framework (Howard et al., 2017). In the present study, the Italian version of QQQ (QQQIT) was tested in 20 typical developing 4–5 year old children. Standardized tests were used to assess EFs pre- and post- intervention. QQQIT was conducted once a week for 8 weeks in small groups. A positive trend was registered in QQQIT performances from the first to the last sessions and a significant improvement, in comparison to the control condition, was obtained in the Color and Form Game test. These results, supporting the feasibility of the QQQIT intervention and its efficacy in increasing shifting abilities, confirm the usefulness of ecological interventions to empower specific EF components in preschool contexts.

One Potoroo

When a bushfire destroys Potoroo’s home, he becomes one of the last surviving Gilbert’s Potoroos at Two Peoples Bay in Western Australia. Frightened, hurt and alone, Potoroo needs a new home – somewhere safe from predators and with plenty of his favourite food. Luckily, a team of conservationists know where Potoroo can go to be safe. One Potoroo: A Story of Survival is a beautifully illustrated book about the world’s most endangered marsupial, the Gilbert’s Potoroo, and the conservation work that has kept this unique Australian alive. Reading level varies from child to child, but we recommend this book for ages 6–9.

Remade

Extra-illustration remakes a book through a series of interventions that modify its bibliographic form. The smallest of these involves pasting materials in the margin, but often the book’s gatherings are disbound, the pages mounted on larger sheets, and additional sheets are interleaved to accommodate materials such as prints, watercolors, and manuscript pages. As the book’s format and size are altered from octavo to folio, from one to many volumes, its new partitions rearticulate its units of perception, the rhythm, and hand-eye coordination that mark the act of reading. The extra-illustrated book is a composite of objects and interventions from different periods. This chapter considers the extra-illustration of Shakespeare. When and why is a book remade? What happens to the book as a medium? Is it an updated, backdated, embellished support for reading or viewing, or does it become something else? At what point does the book stop being a book?

Perancangan Buku Ilustrasi Sebagai Media Informasi Tentang Stres

Mental health has become a big problem in Indonesia. Adolescents are a category that is prone to stress, and is often handled inappropriately by themselves, relatives, or parents. Stress is still considered a trivial matter for most Indonesians. In fact, stress is one of the triggers for various kinds of physical and psychological ailments. The lack of interesting reading for teenagers about stress makes this phenomenon still difficult to get the first treatment before it continues to an undesirable stage. The purpose of this design is to create an illustrated book that discusses stress information with the content as simple as possible and attractive so that it is easily understood by adolescents. This design uses themethod design thinking in order to get the right problem-solving solution in designing the work. There are two media in the design, namely primary media, illustrated books, information about stress and secondary media, namely x-banners and merchandise. By designing this illustration book, it is hoped that it can become a new media choice as informative reading about stress.

Picture World

Many visual media that we take for granted today were in fact invented in the nineteenth century. New technologies led to the creation of new media such as the illustrated newspaper, the cheap caricature cartoon, the affordable illustrated book, the portrait photograph, and the advertising poster. Though these objects might seem like throwaway ephemera, Picture World argues that they were crucial parts of nineteenth-century everyday life. Studying these ubiquitous pictures in fact helps us to revise common understandings of key aesthetic concepts for the century—terms such as character, realism, illustration, sensation, the picturesque, and decadence. The Age of Paper might seem to be drawing to a close, but Picture World tracks nineteenth-century media effects into the present day, from the portrait albums of Facebook to the illusionistic otherworlds of 3D films.