The EC Sampler Booklet - Phase 1: Design

My original Enlightened Child kids book cost me $66 to produce six. What I wanted was something that cost 25 cents... something I could just as easily give away.

With Rusted Root coming up, and all the fun I had at RatDog & Michael Franti, I decided to invest some of the money from a local patron and print up some promotional coloring books for kids who come play my Mancala game at concerts.

At one point I had an idea for a coloring book, but I didn't have line-drawings of all 12 signs. To save myself the time and effort, and just "get er done" I decided to make a sampler book with the first 4 signs and an explanation the parents can appreciate.

So I made up a little model of how it would work, and what it would say...

Then I folded it up to test it and see if I was on the right track...

Everything looked good, so I made transfered the model to Publisher and printed a shell version...

With a solid base to build on, I roughed in the content...

What I ended up with made enough sense to move forward with the plan. In the next post, I'll show what steps I took to bring it all together.

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Craig

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