The word 'feminist' in blue text with a yellow smiley face icon

Little Feminist

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Branding Illustration UX/UI

Project Team

Kristiana Vellucci

Branding, Illustration, UX/UI

Little feminist is a brand on a mission to diversify the book shelves of families across America. They curate book sets, analyze the market to determine product gaps and amplify the voices and experiences of those who are often excluded from publishing.

Little Feminist started as a book subscription service - where subscribers would receive 2 books, 2 activities, and discussion questions to do with their kids each month. Over time, Little Feminist has started to self publish books and creates additional activities that helps families get the most out of the diverse books they read.

Book Box Characters

Illustrations of various parent and child characters in different poses and outfits on a white background.

Inside the Book Boxes

Collection of activities and  letters with books on a white background

Each month the boxes, which spanned across 4 different age groups, were sent out and contained a series of questions and activities with colours and illustrations that would mirror the themes of the books within the box. There were multiple illustrators that worked on these book boxes, who brought their unique styles and life experiences into the kits being created.

After a while, this became a bit of a challenge for the brand as the diversity in styles and colours really got in the way of the brand’s cohesiveness.

As a way to maintain the brand’s diversity value and celebrate the range of stories in the publishing space, we decided to use a series of vectorized outline illustrations on elements that would tie the brand together (think decorations in the borders of the activities, the images on the book boxes themselves), while letting illustrators do their thing for art pieces that were meant to reflect the stories being told.This became a rule for future art we created as well.

Our Featured Collection

As the business continued to grow, they started publishing their own books as well. They currently have 2 sets of books.

Three children's books
Three books titled 'We are Little Feminists' in different colors with images of children on the covers.
Box set of 'We Are Little Feminists' books on a light gray background
Set of children's books with images of children on the cover
Iron-on patch of a child reading a book with 'little feminist' branding.
Tote bag with a colorful design of children and books in a park setting

The We Are Little Feminists Series was a brand of books that existed before I started with Little Feminist. While we continued to build on it together + bring some of the Little Feminist brand into it’s pages, the main focus after my start was branding the 5 Senses Set.

While both sets of books include photographs as their primary focus (a strategic move to fill a necessary gap in the market) - in the 5 Senses Set we use illustrated elements to compliment the photos and bring our own unique personality to them.

In We Are Little Feminists, we built out a box set + some interior spreads that would included some of the illustrated elements from the Little Feminist brand, while for the 5 Senses Set we created a pattern filled with elements inspired by the contents of each book that would tie each book in the series together and be used for related packaging.

All of Me Is Nature

Our first book collaboration! All of Me Is Nature combines photos and illustrations to illustrate this sweet poem about exploring nature with the five senses.

Book titled 'All of Me is Nature' with images of children on the cover.
Children's book open to a page with a child holding a magnifying glass and nature-themed text.
Open book with children's illustrations and text on a grassy background
Children's books with colorful covers and images of children on a grassy background
Repeating pattern of simple illustrated icons representing the 5 senses on a yellow background

Sticker & Flag Reading Tracker

Little Feminist Reading Tracker Flag Front
Green poster with text and checkboxes for Little Feminist Book Club on a white background
Sticker pack with various social justice messages on a blue background, featuring the Little Feminist Book Club branding.

All of Me Is Nature Illustrations

Colorful assortment of nature-themed illustrations
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