‘In the Drink’ boardgame design

A while back I was given the opportunity, at Turton Middleton, to come up with a visual style and then produce all the design and illustrative elements for a new golf related drinking game entitled ‘In the Drink’ by JR Sports.

This involved designing the board, rulebook, cards etc - in fact everything that came with the game, including the box! This was a marvelously exciting job for me as it was the first time I had designed graphics for a board game, although it certainly wouldn’t be the last.

To begin with I researched the market that the gaming product was going into and then started to sketch out concepts. From this I developed these up into full size scamps and trailed the game on my work colleagues (minus the drink). These were then worked up as line art drawings and coloured up in Freehand, before being sent to the client for printing.