Illustration & Books
Drew Daywalt — The Day The Crayons Quit (illustrations by Oliver Jeffers)
The Story
A boy called Duncan has a box of crayons That he uses regularly at school. One day Duncan want to use his crayons and they had left a pile of letters. Each page of the book has a letter from a different colour of grey on raising their concerns on Duncans colouring in choices. The story is really witty & funny, and gives crayons a persona.
The illustrations
Illustrations in this book I meant to look like a child has drawn them with the crayons. I love the illustration style in this book because it’s really abstract and helps portray the letters from each crayon in a playful childlike way. Crayons are used for the drawings in this book, appropriate considering that’s what it’s about — so nice!
The typography
The typography is hand-written type by Oliver Jeffers. It’s done in crayon as the crayons are meant to be the authors of the letters and the colour of the type is written in the colour of the crayon who’s letter it is; i.e. the pink crayons letter is written in pink crayon.
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The rest of the type, which is the narration is in a sans serif.
