Research on Innovation and Educational Value of Children's Illustration Design in the New Media Era
Abstract
As an essential medium for children's reading and education, children's illustrations use straightforward visual language to help children understand the world and develop their aesthetic sensibilities. Despite the continuous evolution of its creative form driven by digital technology, current children's illustrations still face practical challenges such as a lack of innovation, severe homogenization, and ambiguous age positioning. To address these issues, this paper explores the design innovation pathways for children's illustrations, encompassing multidimensional innovation in content, imagery, and textual design. It emphasizes three core directions: interdisciplinary integration, innovative application of technology, and cultural inheritance innovation. By combining psychology, pedagogy, and art design, as well as utilizing new technologies such as AR, VR, and AI, children's illustrations are expected to play a greater educational role in cognitive enlightenment, aesthetic shaping, and creativity stimulation. In the future, children's illustrations will become an important artistic and educational medium for children's lifelong development, laying a solid foundation for their all-round development.
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