Bridget Watson-Payne and Allison Weiner from Chronicle Books

    As I was watching and listening to this interview with Bridget and Allison, I found it hard to retain all the information that they were saying with the visual steps up on the screen. By no means am I trying to say that these designers were wrong in how they were working as designers, it was the visual graphics that did not strongly complement the talk until later in the interview. I think what was missing was a more in-depth process of how the team handles a project. I liked how they showed the final pieces of the illustrations and what the end product became. 

    

    Growing up, reading books was hard and hard to sit through. So, I mostly went to reading more comics and "picture" books. My favorite books that I tend to go towards are ones with illustrations with a fictional story that has an enriching world-building element to it. I do think every publisher and author needs to have a website and collateral web-based designs that can work hands in hand. 

    

    Overall, the presentation was very informative but very dialogue heavy which made it a little uninteresting. Visually, the presentation was simple and highlighted the finished produced pieces. 

Here are two books whose design and visual qualities drive the concept of the book:

"The Story of Ferdinand" by Munro Leaf

"If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" by Laura Numeroff