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Paper engineered personalized children stickers and adventure book

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Paper engineered personalized children stickers and adventure book

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Pip Heartwood and the Trials of Compassion

By Huey Ly and Andreea H.

Production

Working With Longpack Toys To Produce a Children’s BoardBook

I follow a fantastic podcast called “The Toy Coach: Making It In the Toy Industry,” a podcast that aims to help those who want to start their toy inventions or companies. During a morning run, I was listening to the latest episode, […]

Huey LySeptember 6, 2022November 25, 2022
Production

Finding a Company in China to Mass Produce Your Book

After making a rough prototype of the book using my kid’s art supplies, I was ready to find a printing company that could print and assemble 500 to 1000 copies of the first edition, which was not an easy task. Alibaba is […]

Huey LySeptember 3, 2022November 25, 2022
Prototyping

Using a Chinese Print Shop to Create a Prototype

One of the advantages of living in China is the cheap and easy access to print shops and printing companies. On the street right outside our apartment community, there is a little print shop where customers would go to print menus, promotional […]

Huey LyAugust 2, 2022November 25, 2022
Creative

From Rough Drawings to Masterpieces

I want to show you the works our artist Andreea is able to create from my rudimentary sketches. After seeing this, you’ll agree that finding a great artist will transform your concepts from rough ideas into actual products that people will want […]

Huey LyJuly 17, 2022July 19, 2022
Creative

Designing the concept – paper engineering

Paper engineers are amazing! They can transform normal looking pages into work of engineering marvels. From popups to moving mechanics, these artists create wonderful interactive pages that are perfect for children to engage in. I knew it was critical to find an […]

Huey LyJuly 17, 2022July 25, 2022
Creative

Designing the concept – video

Here is the first video I sent to Andreea to explain one of the concepts of the book. In the video, I demonstrated the concept of the first 2 spreads, in which the hole on the right page of spread 1 goes […]

Huey LyJuly 16, 2022July 19, 2022
Creative

Designing the concept – entry 1

Arrrgh! I’ve looked everywhere for this type of books for my kids, ones where they can customize a detachable character and put themselves in the book and interact with its pages, and none exists! Although Wonderbly and other publishers have already established […]

Huey LyJuly 16, 2022July 19, 2022
Huey Ly

Huey Ly

Book Author

Huey Ly is a Software Engineer turn toy maker enthusiast. He is a husband and father, to a 5 year old boy and 4 year old girl. Pip Heartwood is his first creation for the Children's toy market.

  • Working With Longpack Toys To Produce a Children’s BoardBook

  • Finding a Company in China to Mass Produce Your Book

  • Using a Chinese Print Shop to Create a Prototype

  • From Rough Drawings to Masterpieces

  • Designing the concept – paper engineering

  • Designing the concept – video

  • Designing the concept – entry 1

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