Milli
Illustrations for an elementary school math book series
PROJECT DETAILS
Client: Sanoma Pro
Role: Illustrator
Year: 2016–2021
Agency: Red & Blue Oy
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Milli Mathematics is a new math book series for elementary schools in Finland by Sanoma Pro. I’ve been working as the main illustrator for all the books from 3rd to 6th grade, so 8 books in total. Each grade consists of two books, one for the Autumn and one for Spring, and each book has about 150 individual full-colour illustrations ranging from huge compositions filling a whole spread to small icon-like illustrations.
Thematically the illustrations can be divided roughly into two categories: story illustrations and mathematical illustrations. The story illustrations are there to give rhythm to the layout and bring humour and colour to the spreads, while the mathematical illustrations are made to hel