BE A MAKER MAKER PROJECTS FOR KIDS WHO LOVE GRAPHIC DESIGN Horse TONY AAROTZ The LEE GUES SUITE He irre santo start TA JAMES BOW Publishing Company www Crabtreebooks com
TIME TO MAKE Do you like to write or draw Have you spent time coloring things on paper We all like making things with our hands What you might not know is how important these skills are Writing and drawing may seem like playing rather than working but by using them together you can share your ideas with the world HAND TO EYE Look at the book you are holding See how the words are placed and how they are shaped Look at the colors on the pages and where the pictures are Notice how the letters of some words are shaped differently from others such as thicker or in different colors See how these elements move your eyes across the page in a certain order A lot of people worked very hard to produce the words and pictures you see They made them in such a way that your eye follows the words making it easier to understand what they are telling you The combination of words colors and pictures makes this page fun to look at and that makes the page easier to read The process that puts all this together is called graphic design Be a Maker Superman's logo is simple yet suggests Superman's attributes through the use of colors and lettering Do you believe that we are controlling where your eyes look on this page Try reading the parts of this page out of order How hard is that to do Look at the page again what is the first thing you see What is the first thing you
EVERYWHERE A MAKERSPACE You can use the words you write and the pictures you draw to reach out to people In fact by playing with your art and your writing you are learning how to become a maker Makerspaces are places where we unleash our creativity We play with new ideas and we share what we have made with others We learn from mistakes and we adapt old ideas to make new things A makerspace can be in your library your school on the Internet or at home By trying the activities in this book or being inspired by what you read here you can turn the space around you into a makerspace Now let s get started Group collaboration or working as a team is a great makerspace way to create new ideas and improve individual
