Overview
Lumieria worked in partnership with educational book publishing startup Elemental Play to produce an interactive book app for iOS. The resulting app was 'skinnable' (reconfigurable to present different book content) enabling the company to easily release new titles, based on a simple interaction style. As a child touches a page, as they are prone to doing, different elements are shown and hidden, sounds-played, and simple navigation may occur between pages. This encourages a child to interact with the book, touching and learning new concepts while doing so.
Elemental Brooklyn
Elemental Play's first release would be 'Elemental Brooklyn' -- teaching a child about color, graffiti images from Brooklyn, New York. By presenting a youngster with the richness of real-world imagery, and engaging them with interactivity, this book moves beyond the traditional and limited 'red, green, blue' beginner book, and exposes a child to all of the colors the real world offers.
Inspiration
The iPad has brought powerful new interaction hardware into millions of households, enabling the easy delivery of brand-new interactive experiences across the globe. Using this new platform, no longer are books confined to the read-only, sequential paradigm. Furthermore, the electronic delivery of reading material allows for a low start-up cost for aspiring authors. Lumieria was inspired to leverage this amazing device for Elemental Play, and empower their vision for new, fun, interactive content for children.
