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Static Design
Circular Backgammon The project was to alter the gameplay of a traditional game, adding a dimension of complexity to it. I chose to take the game backgammon, which is traditionally played between two players on a rectangular game board, and create an 'in the round' experience where two, four or even eight players can play. The traditional backgammon board can be stretched out onto a line where players have their own 'home' or 'safe' areas and the goal is move all of your pieces into your home area, capturing your opponents stray pieces, which generally are on your side of the board. By wrapping the path of the game back onto itself and doubling the length, I found that if I added another two players to the board, each player would have a home 'quadrant'. And instead of having a problem where the circular board makes the concept of securing your home area impossible, with a good strategy, you can take advantage of controlling a moving region where you can capture opponents in their territories. Also, by making the game circular, you need to watch out as opponents move in all directions, searching out their home area.
For your reference, here is a traditional backgammon board.
South Jack Five - Poster & Postcard For this project, Prof Henry had us each design and create our own font, and display that font on a doublesided postcard and full-size poster. I chose to create a stylized version of my handwriting and create a typeface out of it. Though in the class we never actually went through the steps of creatign an actual font file, we created both a mailer and a display poster to showcase our newly created typeface. The following is an excerpt from my creative design brief for this project: "I chose this method because I have secretly (not very) wished for a font of my handwriting forever. Many of the handwriting fonts are either over the top stylized (as in some of the graffiti handstyle fonts) or are kidlike and cartoonish. My handwriting is very standard, and has visual elements from graffiti, but is (I feel) very legible at all sizes." Poster Postcard - Front Postcard - Back
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