Another Graphic Communications project, this one focuses on a cross-collateral campaign. It starts with a brand guide and social media posts to advertise the board game you are creating. You must choose a board game to base this on, and I elected to use Clue to make a murder mystery board game. My professor gave me the idea for the name “Who Killed Cotton?” during our brainstorming sessions. It is a funny nod to the dynamic Cotton has with the students in the classroom, as it can be very unserious at times, but fun. More importantly, the niche of this game is a murder in the Graphic Design department at Southern Miss. It is made for graphic designers, more specifically made for my graduating class, but still general enough that anyone could play it, with recognizable weapons anyone could buy, which are used frequently in the classroom. I take a lot of inspiration from Saul Bass for this project. I wanted it to have that noir, old murder mystery feeling, and Bass felt right for the style of graphics for this.
the boardgame
The next step in this collateral project is the board game itself. Creating the board, game pieces, cards, characters, instructions and so on. This was the most challenging part of the process, but the result is stellar in my opinion.
