Before the app era, educational content for children meant physical products: board games, puzzles, card games and books that families kept on their shelves for years. I spent over a decade designing these products for some of the biggest names in children’s entertainment and food, distributed across Greece and Europe.
This work sits in a different category from illustration or app development. It is graphic design, product design and educational content creation combined packaging that had to work in retail, games that had to be durable enough for children to use hundreds of times, and books that had to be worth keeping.
The products below are a selection. The full body of work spans a 60-page catalogue and includes promotional items not shown here. Read about the mission.
Thinking about adding activity pages to your book?
The complete activity books guide explains what educational pages involve, what formats work best for different age groups, and how they are developed alongside the illustration work.
Children's Educational Book Design, Educational Pages in Books
Activity and learning pages developed alongside picture book illustrations. this children’s educational book design pages extend the story into educational territory with puzzles, mazes, drawing activities and find-the-difference games and more tied to the characters and world of the book.
Isabella's Magic Hats
The Cat-Coop
Activity Pages
The Cat-Coop
Activity Pages
Licensed Product Design
Educational board games and puzzles designed under major licenses, distributed in Greece and the European Union by MIKA.
An important note on scale!
The products shown here represent a small selection of a much larger body of work. Over a decade of designing educational games and books for major brands produced a catalogue that runs to hundreds of products. What you see below gives an accurate picture of the range and quality. It is not the full story!
Disney Educational Board Games and Puzzles
Educational Board games, educational card games, wooden puzzles and jigsaw puzzles featuring Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Disney Princesses, Winnie the Pooh, Atlantis, Ratatouille and more.
In 2002 The Walt Disney Company Greece awarded the ReadnLearn creative team the Creativity Award for Design and New Packaging Development. This award recognised the quality and innovation of the educational game and puzzle design work you see on this page
Marvel, Nickelodeon and Warner Bros
Educational Board games, educational card games, wooden puzzles and jigsaw puzzles featuring Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Disney Princesses, Winnie the Pooh, Atlantis, Ratatouille and more.
Promotional Product Design
NESTLE Collaborations
Educational board books
Educational games and promotional material for Nestle across Greece and Europe
FAGE, EVGA Eugenides Foundation and other Collaborations
Educational games and promotional material for Major Brands across Greece.
Looking for Educational Content for Your Book?
Educational pages are an add-on to the illustration service. If you want your picture book to include activity pages, mazes, puzzles or colouring content alongside the story, that is something I can build as part of the same project.
