Piggy

Business books for "kids"

This is something that I have been wanting to do for quiet a while but have not had the time or capacity to work on. Now that I have had some time, I have managed to write a first book on a couple of the foundations of business: Mentorship and Processes.

Much of what I find myself doing over the years with friends, employees or people I meet is, translating. By "Translating" I mean taking an idea and finding a concept they already understand and translating the new material into that individuals know language.

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Updating from hand drawn to Digital "hand drawn"

Original: scanned pencil, sharpie and crayon art

Digital update: Procreate layered art for more vibrant color, accurate shapes and image framing for visual storytelling

Cover concept

Bird and Piggy

Grandpa and Piggy

Recipe cards

Education Focused

I have tried to compact in as much learning opportunity as possible. Some examples of this are thought the art, language and systems in the book.

Through the art...

Using Basic shapes: Circle, Square, and Triangle are the primary elements of Piggy's world
Using 2 primary line exercise elements straight line and curved line
Art style is built around pencil, black marker and crayons.
Limited color pallet based on a box of 16 Crayola crayons for accessibility of materials
Foundational characteristics versus distinguishing / individual characteristics. Character creation expandability though minor changes of the face, ears and tail.

Through the language...

Accessible language. Using as few words (most of the time) to convey the message.
Aimed to keep the language used as accessible as possible to this generations kids

Not included yet: would like to include simple grammar structures in the sentences for educational purposes.

Through the systems...

Simplified examples of systems and processes at a foundational layer / level
Each book is intended to cover 1 business system or process that is applicable to both professional and personal life

Some fun things that I have run into with this project has been

Considering the whole "ecosystem" of kids materials
- Books (Picture books mainly)
- Games (2d, 3d, board, card, etc)
- Shows (Animation)
- School education
Simplifying the art style for kids 5-7 years old
Played around with an intro song considering only using instaments used in a typical elementry school
- Voice
- Shaker
- Rhythm sticks
- Xylophone / Glockenspiels
- Hand drum
- Ukulele
- Triangle

I have really enjoyed the education idea because it sets interesting constrains like "How do you teach the basics of anatomy to a 5 year old, while not having to make it 100% correct?" or "How do you create materials that set kids up for success to help motivate continued learning?"

Why kids books? I love kids...and adults. materials need to be relatable to be use full. Have you ever learned something and then not tried it? Normally unfutunetly it is because of a fear of failure or having to invest "to much time" to become good at a new skill (I call this one "getting old"). Also materials that are really good for children should appeal to adults in some form because adults are typically the ones that have teach the kids.

I realized that the "formula" for creating kids content for adults was: Take an adult sized problem and break it down to a child size understanding.

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