Projects
  • Children's book
  • Illustration
  • Travel story

Bilia e Aquilone

A children's book created during a journey through North-East India.

The cover frames the book as a small adventure held between travel, image, and drawing.
Type
Illustrated children's book
Place
North-East India
Period
June 2026
Authors
Alessandro Daz and Leila Penna
Context

The book turns photographs from the road into a children’s story about how adventures arrive, pass, and leave space for the next one.

Process

Process

  1. 01

    Collect photographs during the journey.

  2. 02

    Build a narrative around temporary, shared adventure.

  3. 03

    Draw characters over real landscapes to open them into fiction.

Outputs

Outputs

  • Children's book
  • Cover design
  • Illustrated photographic spreads
  • Travel narrative
  • Editorial mockups
  • Visual system for photo and drawing
The closed book makes the project feel like an object, not only a digital story.
The spreads show how colour, photography, and short text move through the book.
A real place becomes a page once illustration enters the photograph.
The book keeps the memory of the journey visible without becoming a literal diary.
Each spread holds a small scene where adventure is present but never fully explained.