Designing for Children
Over the years I have worked on projects for pre-teens, middle schoolers, high schools and college students. With every project I believe in approaching the narrative from the perspective of the child and offering them as many options that will get them to the next step.
The Ouch and Moo Book:
Four Stories from Our Neighbourhood
Umbrella Concept by Poonam Bir Kasturi
Internship Project for Daily Dump, Bangalore, India in 2007
The central premise of the book was how to tell a story from multiple perspectives. Each of the stories has 4 main characters - human, cow, a banana and plastic. I wrote and illustrated A Cloak for Prithvi. Prithvi is a rag-picker who has a choice to make - wear his shiny new cloak made of plastic chip packets that will protect him from the rain but will give him a skin rash or just get wet in the monsoon and fall ill? Or could there be another solution? The inspiration for the illustration style was based on one of my favourite books, A Snowy Day by Jack Ezra Keats.
5 Disgustingly Cool Books for Kids
Umbrella Concept by Poonam Bir Kasturi
Designed and illustrated for class V students for Daily Dump, Bangalore, India in 2008
A set of 5 interactive books that explore themes of sustainability and how it relates to children that live in Indian cities.
The Coded Planet
Umbrella Concept by Poonam Bir Kasturi
Designed and illustrated for Daily Dump, Bangalore, India in 2017-18
An 80-page Environmental Studies workbook for class VI-VII for schools in Bangalore, designed for both students and teachers. It encourages thinking about our environment by doing, observing, reflecting, experimenting, learning to ask questions and being empathetic.
Trash-Trail
Designed and illustrated for Daily Dump, Bangalore, India in 2011
Additional illustrations by Girish T.S.
Daily Dump conducts a guided tour of the trash trail in Bangalore for people wanting to know more about waste management. A colourful and engaging 60-page booklet was designed with all the handy information that they would be encountering on this bus-tour.
