Benefits System The Game complete!

And here it is. All done and playable. There's no box because the idea is that it would be given away flat-packed with a newspaper, everything folds down to A4 or smaller, but could comfortably be scaled to a similar size. Given that I produced this at home, the quality is lower than a potential finshed product. I would think that it would be printed on higher quality, glossy card. Probably double-sided too, and maybe the Wages, Benefits and Events cards wouldn't all be hand-written. All 56 of them.
It plays just about as I planned. The games should average out to be fairly short, and it's nigh-on impossible for a Worker to win, which was kind of the point. Hopefully people would engage with the humour and take away an irritation with our benefits system.
Information Illustration? Let's hope so. I'll see what people say when they play it.

Back online / Vigilante Origin

It's been a while. I was in a bit of disarray over the summer, so I neglected my blogging duties. Anyway, here is the main piece that I didn't upload to my blog - Vigilante Origin. It's my response to a sequential image brief. They are each 12cm by 12cm. Created using pencil, pen, card, paper, scissors knife and glue.
I'm pretty proud of them, but they do look more impressive close up and in real life. I feel like they may have been stronger using colour, but I made the choice to go black and white for a graphic novel feel. The second one has a simple "pop-up" mechanism which changes the image in view inside the tunnel between the hero getting mugged and fighting off his attacker. I intended to include more "pop-up" features but I thought the extra room needed for the mechanisms meant that I couldn't be as creative with the backgrounds and layers.

Mask

This is a mask made to represent indifference. Not much more to say about it than that. Anyone remember that cartoon called MASK? That was pretty cool.

More work

A couple of graphic sequences created from photos of a model I constructed from corrugated card, edited using PhotoShop.