Genre: Original illustrated fairy tale
Target Audience: Ages 6–10
Length: 21 spreads
Format: 210 × 270 mm, vertical

Once, a girl named Mira falls asleep and is magically transported to her own factory of feelings, where she discovers the enterprise is constantly glitching and dispensing mixed emotions instead of pure feelings. Mira and the employees are in shock as they try to fix the perpetual malfunctions, only to realize that sometimes feelings cannot—and should not—be separated.

The market features books that teach children to recognize and discuss emotions. The «Factory of Impossible Feelings» project offers a narrower artistic focus—exploring mixed emotions through a unified fantasy world, a narrative adventure, and the visual metaphor of a factory. The project does not rely on a ready-made catalog of emotions to check against; instead, it proposes that by examining real-life situations woven into a magical world, we can derive a rule: different feelings can coexist within us simultaneously, and you do not have to eliminate one to be entitled to another.

Volume: 21 spreads
Format: 210×270 mm, vertical
Binding: hardcover, for gift and library editions
Paper: matte

The primary book format is vertical, emphasizing the scale of the mechanisms and the factory itself. As the emotional intensity builds, the spreads become increasingly dense and complex, but at the end, the composition settles into a calm, airy, and simple feel.

TYPOGRAPHY

Body Text: Sans Serif Collection, 12–14 pt, increased leading
Text occupies 50% of the page or less, placed on a contrasting light background

Characters: Mira, the Factory Director, 2 workers, Mira’s mother
Locations: Mira’s room, the flower field near the factory, the factory

The visual style unites the organic forms of emotion and characters with the rough lines of factory machinery and the «dangerous» external world. The illustration mimics analog artistic materials. The color palette is subdued.

Our core competitive advantage: «The Factory of Impossible Feelings» offers not a separate catalog of emotions or disconnected stories, but a cohesive fantasy narrative whose rules can be applied in a vast number of life situations, while maximally narrowing the focus to the perception and handling of complex, mixed feelings and emotions in children.

Submissions to the publishers «Samokat» and «Polyandria.» Thematic merchandise: postcards and a card game where players mix emotions, invent what results, and match those mixed feelings to a real-life situation experienced by a child.