Good Company Games – Board Game Package Design and Logo Design

Good Company Games – Tucsan, AZ – 2009
Illustration, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Streamline

Good Company Games has been contracting me to do web, graphic and illustration work since the company was founded. The original Cornerstone game has since won the Mensa Select award, Mensa’s organization has over 110,000 members worldwide who qualify by scoring in the top 2% on a standardized intelligence test. The game has been in high demand since winning and I was contacted to design the package for this follow up game. Cornerstone Essential has less pieces than it’s predecessor. A sticker will be added to this package to denote the player colors, buying a number of these smaller game sets will allow larger groups to play a single game. My illustration kept this in mind showing an endless horizon of towers. I hope this version is just as successful.

I love this logo. I wish I had made it for my own game company, yet, it is in good hands with the owners in Tucson, Arizona. The sun is a fitting image for an Arizona-based company. The initials of the game fell perfectly to create the eyes and nose of the sun.

I was hired to illustrate and design this board game package with full creative freedom. The client was looking to emphasis the height of the game, as the players build tall structures during the game play. The name of the board game reinforces the tall concept of the game play. I did the illustration in pen and ink, then did the airbrushing in photoshop. Drawing the figure in the foreground was a bit frustrating, yet this artwork turned out to be one of my finest works to date.