Great graphic designers are great thinkers—because great graphic design is so much more that pretty pictures.

Objectives

• Create a set of 50 cards within a theme
• Include an accordion-folded instruction sheet
• Design and build a chipboard box for all 50 cards and the instruction sheet

Restraints

• Basic structure/form of box set forth
• Only original photographs and/or illustrations

Solution

• A friend and I invented a large-group card game based on a sleuth/covert concept
• Typewriter, file-folder and secret agent style imagery and type help communicate the concept of the game

Other Info

• Date: November 2008
• Class: Graphic Design 235
• Dimensions: Box: 3½ × 4¾ × 1.5 inches, Cards: 3⅛ × 4⅝ inches
• Number of Pages: 50 loose cards
• Binding: Chipboard Box
• Paper Choice: 12 pt C2S
• Typefaces: Helvetica, Typewritter (a real one)

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