For illustrators, author/illustrators, and picture book authors: Picture Book as Art Object--From Words to Trim Sizes, How Every Part of a Book Tells a Story, with Mariam Quraishi, Senior Designer of Picture Books at Macmillan Publishing. In this intensive we will study the picture book not as a medium for image and text, and also as a whole art object that shapes a reader's narrative journey. Participants will walk through the stages of book development dissecting the intentions behind text, design and image choices. We will look at examples from mentor texts and examine their use of colour, shape and scale to understand the limitless possibilities of the picture book. Through the workshop, we will also have a series of prompts aimed at expanding our ideas of what an illustrated book can do. This course will benefit both authors and illustrators as it will enable both to consider the delicate synthesis between image and text and how they interact on a printed page.
Mariam Quraishi, Senior Designer, Macmillan
Mariam Quraishi is an illustrator, designer and art director from Karachi, Pakistan. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently a Senior Designer at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group. Mariam has previously held design positions at Penguin Young Readers and Chronicle Books. When not designing books, she works on her own titles as both author and illustrator.