Routledge Integrated Storytelling by Design: Concepts, Principles and Methods for New Narrative Dimensions

This pioneering work equips you with the skills needed to create and design powerful stories and concepts for interactive, digital, multi-platform storytelling and experience design that will take audience engagement to the next level. Klaus Sommer Paulsen presents a bold new vision of what storytelling can become if it is reinvented as an audience-centric design method. His practices unlock new ways of combining story with experience for a variety of existing, new and upcoming platforms. Merging theory and practice, storytelling and design principles, this innovative toolkit instructs the next generation of creators on how to successfully balance narratives, design and digital innovation to develop strategies and concepts that both apply and transcend current technology. Packed with theory and exercises intended to unlock new narrative dimensions, Integrated Storytelling by Design is a must-read for creative professionals looking to shape the future of themed, branded and immersive experiences. About the Author Klaus Sommer Paulsen is an award-winning concept developer, designer, storyteller and creative director. His expertise in the convergence of storytelling, digital innovation and experience design has been built through a career spanning decades and disciplines. He has collaborated with VIA University College Film & Transmedia, Aarhus University, University of Southern Denmark and University of Tartu Pärnu College. He was also the contributing editor of Create Converge’s 2019 anthology Storytelling Beyond The Screen.