Damki Town – Colouring Book

Ahoiii teamed up with seasoned German illustrator, Dana Damki, and together they have taken her beautiful illustrations and created an awesome app that children will love using. It is very simple to use but the quality and imagination that is behind it will engage children and people who appreciate art.

The home-page of the app is series of twelve houses depicting a town. Each “house” has three characters that you can colour. So, all in all there are 36 characters to colour-in, in each section. You can choose from “paint” and a “drawing” tool with your finger  that colours and modifies the quirky characters. There are also accessories that you can use to decorate the images.  Some of the names of the characters are very funny. For example, you can colour-in “Lama Larry”, “Zombie-Oma” or “Tobbles”.

We found the app very easy to use and intuitive. Furthermore, you can save the pictures that you like, perhaps even print them or share them with your social network. As you paint each character, the houses in the home-page are automatically coloured too. This makes the whole process exciting for the user.

One of the ways that we thought could really enhance this app for classroom use is if after coluring-in the pictures, children could make an imaginative story with the characters. As the illustrations are so full of character, we believe that children will be very taken with the drawings and will be able to take the characterisation even further.

Overall, this is a beautiful app. Children and adults will enjoy working with it.