Kappa Jizo Puke Kiʻi Polokalamu Lawelawe by Kaori Hamura Long

Kappa Jizo Puke Kiʻi Polokalamu Lawelawe by Kaori Hamura Long is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Hao in Hoʻolālā Paʻalima, Polokalamu a me Lako Paʻalima Competition Category.

HaoPaʻalima· 2021

Kappa Jizo Puke Kiʻi Polokalamu Lawelawe

by Kaori Hamura Long

Client: Moss Moon Studio

A' Design Award Hao Winner in Paʻalima Category

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The Design

About Kappa Jizo Puke Kiʻi Polokalamu Lawelawe

ʻO Kappa Jizo he polokalamu puke kiʻi launa pili no nā pahu lawelawe kelepona lawelawe. Hoʻoikaika ka moʻolelo i nā keiki e noʻonoʻo ākea i ka poʻe mai nā ʻano moʻomeheu ʻokoʻa. Loaʻa ka haʻi leo ma ka ʻōlelo Pelekania a me ka ʻōlelo Kepanī. Hiki i nā keiki ke kiko, huki a ʻūmiʻi i nā kiʻi kanaka a me nā mea i ka wā e hana ai ka moʻolelo, a hoʻokomo pū ʻia kekahi ʻaoʻao waihoʻoluʻu. Ua kaha lima ʻia nā kiʻi hoʻonaninani a pau me ka penikala ma ka pepa, a laila wehewehe ʻia a hoʻoluʻu ʻia ma ke ʻano kikohoʻe. Ua hoʻopaʻa ʻia nā leo a me nā mele no ka polokalamu. ʻO ka manaʻo nui, ʻo ia ke aʻo ʻana i ka mahalo a me ka hōʻemi ʻana i ka manaʻo kūʻēʻē.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Hao

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Kappa Jizo Puke Kiʻi Polokalamu Lawelawe i ka A' Design Award Hao, he ʻike hoʻohanohano i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā maikaʻi e hoʻokō ana i nā koi ʻoihana a ʻoihana hana i manaʻo ʻia mai nā mea hoʻokumu i hana maikaʻi ʻia. Hōʻike nā lanakila Hao i ka mākau nui, ka loea kiʻekiʻe, ka ʻike akamai a me ka hiki hana noʻeau o ka poʻe i hana iā lākou. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Kappa Jizo Puke Kiʻi Polokalamu Lawelawe he mea hoʻokumu i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia e pono a hou. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Hao e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka ʻoihana a loaʻa nā ʻano ʻenehana mākaukau i hui pū ʻia me ka ʻike hana a me ka makakoho. Mahalo ʻia ka hoʻolālā Kappa Jizo Puke Kiʻi Polokalamu Lawelawe no kona nānā pono a ua hoʻolālā ʻia e hāʻawi i nā hoʻomaikaʻi ola e kōkua ai i ka hana ʻana i ka honua i wahi maikaʻi aku.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This hand-drawn interactive picture book app will get children thinking about the importance of being open-minded towards people who are different from them. Kids can listen along with audio recorded in English or Japanese and they can also have fun with interactive characters and the coloring page. They can tap, drag, and pinch the characters and objects while the story plays. The children will find that they can be friends with people even though they come from different backgrounds.
Dimensions & Packaging: 2048 x 2732 pixel (214.9mm x 280.6mm)
Tags: picture book app, children’s book app, book app, children’s book, picture book, iTune, Google Play, Japanese book, kid’s book app, app, jizo, app jizo, kaori hamura, kaori hamura long, moss moon, mission, moss moon studio, tolerance, prejudice,
Production Technology: First, the storyboard and dummy book was made and then created illustrated pages with pencils and paper. Then the illustrations were scanned and colored in Photoshop. There, all the layers were separated, heads, eyes, arms, etc. for animation. The sprite sheets were created using the extension software called Kwik in Photoshop. We recorded voices and music in Garage Band, and the sound files were imported into Kwik programming. All the pages were published into Solar 2D programming software to build for Xcode (App Store) and Android Studio (Google Play).
Design Challenge: The creative part came quickly and naturally for the artist, but the challenge was to create programming without knowledge. Even as an artist and writer with no programming background, she made her first interactive picture book app using the Photoshop extension called Kwik. With easy to use interface within Photoshop, she was able to program her book the way she wanted. However, submitting the app to App Store and Google Play was a totally different challenge, and she has to keep updating the app according to the technological changes.
Research: Once the artist decided to take on a challenge to make her picturebook into an interactive picturebook app, she had done an extensive research to create it without too much knowledge of programming. There were few software and extension choices to create an app without extensive knowledge of programming, so she has tried out a few. She decided to use the Photoshop extension program called Kwik, and their tech support was beneficial, so she decided to use the software.
Inspiration: Living in a time of the divided world, with bias and hate crimes rising, the artist felt that she had to do something to teach the next generation that it doesn't have to be that way. By changing our mindset, we could change the world to be more united, respectful for people with different backgrounds, and show love for each other. She wrote the story and made a picturebook and decided to turn it into an interactive picturebook app.
Project Duration: The manuscript and dummy book was created in October 2007 in Vermont, U.S.A. The app development started in 2015 and was released in June 2017 in Fukuoka, Japan. The updated version was released in October 2020.
Operation Flow: It is an interactive children's book app for Apple and Android devices. The reader can listen along with audio recorded in English or Japanese. Children can also have fun with interactive characters and the coloring page. They can tap, drag, and pinch the characters and objects while the story plays.
Team Members: Creator/ Illustrator/ Voices/ Music: Kaori Hamura Long
Voices: Bill Long
Voices: Mika Long
Image Credits: Image1-5: Illustrator/Writer/Music: Kaori Hamura Long,
Voices: Kaori Hamura Long, Bill Long, and Mika Long