Thomas Young

Excited by the reception of our previous work, together Sid and I have decided to collaborate to create a children’s picture book titled Cogs. The premise of the story is the simple journey of a tiny robot and its desire to find itself and its purpose in a world where everyone else seems to know their place.

The themes of not fitting in and not being sure of yourself or what you should do in life are what make this story tick.
This story is aimed to be a very young child’s book, around 5 years of age. Although the kind of themes used will be useful for and older or even younger audiences, depending on the kid!

With many friends and supporters of our other works we wanted to be able to offer more variety than just a book and to a larger audience as well. So we decided that using crowd sourcing to fund our project over the traditional “scratch and save” method will allow both of us to give you more of ourselves and to provide more personalised products to our supporters.


First and foremost, the funds will be used to help cover the costs of printing the books themselves. This alone is estimated to be over $4000.

Secondly for framing and display of the artworks that are our illustrations, this would include supporting our launch, which would be in an art gallery to show both the artwork and the book simultaneously. We are hoping to have the framing and launch covered for under $1000.

Thirdly for continued marketing and advertising of our project. Any funds we have left over after the things listed above and production and postage of all the rewards to our supporters, Sid and I would hope to spend the remaining funds to continue to market our project and increase our audience.

The greatest risk is that we don’t make our target and we don’t get the funding. We never had funding for our other projects other than what we could scrape together ourselves by clearing tables and polishing glasses. Now those projects are on the walls and bookshelves of stores and peoples homes. What we do is our passion and making our target would take a great chunk of the financial burden out of publishing and printing. We would go ahead with or without a successful crowdsourcing campaign, however the scope and the reach of a successful campaign would be such a fantastic reward for our late nights and a boon to know that there our so many people out there that enjoy our work.