Logo A Go-Go

One of the design classes I am taking this semester is an independent study in the sense that we rarely meet with the professor; however, our first project was done in groups of 4. The assignment was to create a board game — board, rules, cards, pieces, box and all.

The game is called Logo A Go-Go and it’s all about marketing and logos (yeah, we may be able to design but we’re not game-makers, what can we say). There are 4 categories, a la Cranium or Trivial Pursuit — old logo identification, sketch the logo, logo trivia, and logo typography. (We did come up with better names for each of those.)

Each person in the group came up with 25 questions and then I designed the cards themselves, all 100 of them. As a team, we each designed potential icons for the categories and the group chose mine (seen on the backs of the cards and on the game board) to use for the final product. I also designed the ink splatter pattern. My other group members designed and put together the game board, pieces, rules, box, and puzzles (which you assemble as you answer questions correctly). Since I designed most of the elements that are repeated on everything, like the splatter and the icons, it was really cool to see it all come together.

Later in the semester we will all get together to play our games. The other group will play ours and we’ll try theirs. Who knows how that will go, but at least it looks good. I was pleasantly surprised at how well it turned out!