Komorebi Design Studio — Case Study ✦ Published · 2026
Children's Book · Emotional Literacy · Education · Behaviour Change

Every feeling
has a name.
Every child
deserves to
know it.

Magical Emotions is a children's storybook guiding young readers through their emotional landscape — using whimsical characters, a Wizard Brain, and the gentle truth that all feelings can be understood.

Iryna Lebediva
Children's Storybook
Published · 2026
Emotional Literacy · Ages 3–8
Inside the Book

Meet Wizard Brain — the guide through every feeling.

A pink brain in a wizard's hat, wielding a wand, casting spells that help children understand what's happening inside them. Joy is golden. Frustration is red. And every feeling has a coping charm.

Wizard Brain — character introduction page, pink brain in wizard hat with sparkle dust
Meet Wizard Brain — the gentle guide through every emotion
Bouncy Joy TA DA! — open spread in golden yellow with joy characters
Bouncy Joy — "Here comes a shimmering feeling. Golden sparks."
Hot Frustration WHOA! — open spread showing the frustration emotion character
Hot Frustration — "Even fire feelings can be softened, he says, when kindness leads."
Magical Emotions — printed book spread, final published edition
Final printed spread — colour, character, and Wizard Brain's first charm
Magical Emotions — interior page from the published edition
A coping charm in action — page from the published book
Magical Emotions — full book spread from the published edition
The book in its final form — printed, bound, and reading-ready for ages 3–8
The Brief

A book that gives children language for the things they feel but can't yet say.

Iryna Lebediva came to Komorebi with a clear and tender mission: create a children's storybook that helps young readers identify, understand, and navigate their emotions — without shame, without prescription, and with genuine delight.

The result is Magical Emotions — a world where feelings are characters, a Wizard Brain is your guide, and every emotion, even the fiery ones, has a name and a coping charm.

"Every feeling has a name. And every child who knows that name has one more tool for living."

Komorebi's role spans the full design and concept arc — visual identity for the characters, illustrated page layouts, typographic design, and the editorial logic that turns each emotion into an experience rather than a lesson.

The book is designed for children aged 3–8, parents, and educators — anyone who wants to give a child the gift of emotional vocabulary before they need it.

The Emotions

Every feeling gets its own colour, its own character, its own spell.

From Bouncy Joy to Hot Frustration — each emotion is designed to be recognised by a child before it's named. The feeling comes first. The language follows.

Bouncy Joy

Golden sparks. A shimmering feeling that makes you grin wide, dance on your toes, or feel giggles in your tummy. Wizard Brain twirls his wand and says: "Want more sparkle?"

Hot Frustration

A red, fiery feeling. Did someone take your turn? Did your tower tumble down? Wizard Brain waves a cooling charm. "Even fire feelings can be softened — when kindness leads."

A full emotional landscape

From Bouncy Joy to Hot Frustration and every feeling in between — each one gets its own illustrated spread, its own character, and its own Wizard Brain coping charm. The published book carries the complete vocabulary.

What Komorebi Did

Design that makes feelings feel safe.

Komorebi's contribution spans the full creative arc — from character design to page layout to the emotional logic that holds the book together.

01

Character Design & Visual Identity

Wizard Brain, the emotion characters, the colour system — each feeling gets a visual identity that a three-year-old can recognise and a parent can explain.

02

Page Layout & Typography

Playful, readable, emotionally consistent. The layouts guide a child's eye through each spread — feeling first, coping strategy second, Wizard Brain always present.

03

Behaviour Change Design

This is Komorebi's Earth Consciousness™ framework applied to emotional literacy — Seed (introduce the feeling), Rewire (give the coping tool), Repeat (embed the habit). The book is a behaviour change programme disguised as a storybook.

04

Full Book Production · Complete

The book is now printed, bound, and ready for readers — ages 3–8. Final spreads, character system, and the complete Earth Consciousness™ behaviour-change arc all live on the page.

The Komorebi Way

"Design for children is the highest form of behavior change design. They are still becoming."

Magical Emotions is Komorebi doing what it does best — taking something that matters deeply and making it beautiful enough to work. Children who grow up knowing their feelings have names are children who grow up able to talk about them, manage them, and offer that same vocabulary to others.

That is systems change. That is the Earth Consciousness™ framework. That is the planet worth living on — one emotional vocabulary at a time.

✦ Published · Available now