Pop!
Pop! We Make Stories
Penguin books
Pop! was one of several educational writing games created as part of the We Make Stories project – an innovative digital publishing initiative to inspire children to write and create stories in a digital space.
Pop! gave children between the ages of 6-11 a tool to write and create pop up stories. Once stories have been created they can either be saved to a digital bookshelf, emailed to a friend or printed and assembled.
This project brought together my love of designing for both the screen and for print. I conceived the idea for Pop! through design concepts that examined how story creation could be made more fun and engaging online for children against a background of social media and online media and gaming.
Graphical elements
“We put out an open call for designers interested in creating story-telling tools for children. In subsequent conversations with Paul Farrington it soon became clear that not only did he understand the ambitions and goals of Penguin’s project but also had some really strong creative notions for the project. Paul went on to develop the most ambitious of the tools on the We Make Stories project, the 3D pop-up book generator Pop! This produces beautiful physical and digital pop-up books and has been used and enjoyed by children and adults the world over.
Jeremy Ettinghausen
Penguin/Puffin”
