Opinion|Reader’s opinion
Niklas Bengtsson considered in his text “Book design can improve reading” the effects of original bookmarks on children’s reading (HS Opinion 26.1.).
As book designers, our job is to bring out the content created by illustrators and writers in the best possible way. The design in the children’s books serves the content of the book. In addition, the children’s book must be durable and preferably affordable, domestic and environmentally friendly.
Although there is a wide variety of offerings available (sound buttons, hatches and exciting materials), the most beloved, best-selling and borrowed children’s books in our country are quite traditional in shape. Perhaps the child’s reading is fueled more by the enchantment of stories and illustrations than by the pursuit of a specialty in appearance.
Mirella Mäkilä
Head of Graphic Design, Otava
Piia Aho
Guild of Book Designers, Grafia ry
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