Tag Archives: design
Laser-cut Carcassonne
I have been working recently on designs for a laser-cut Carcassonne set. I have completed a prototype of The River and some start tiles. I brought them all to KublaCon a couple weekends ago, and played many a game of … Continue reading
Art, Ego, Identity
Against my introverted nature, I have been meeting a lot of new people over the past couple months. During introductions, often I will be asked “so what do you do?”, a question which, in buried parts of my brain becomes … Continue reading
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Prototyping a Laser-Cut Catan Water Tile
I used up some of the scrap wood I had lying around today. After having a lot of fun playing around with tesselated patterns in Inkscape (Edit->Clone->Create Tiled Clones) I tried some of them out on the laser cutter.
Polished Gold
And here is the Gold tile, realized in birch. (Sorry for the crummy quality phonecam photo)
Identity Circus
I needed a logo to put on the bottom of my boards. 6 months down the line if a customer forgot where they got the board, and they needed to buy a spare part, or wanted to recommend me to … Continue reading
Gardening
One of the next projects for me will be a laser-cut Dominion "caddy" – a device to keep all the cards lined up nicely while playing the game. There's not much room on it for decoration, but with a laser, … Continue reading
Flourish
Looking through some examples of decorative art from the last century, I got inspired to try my hand at some flourishes to perhaps use to enhance the borders of the board and ports. When I started working at this level … Continue reading
Two Sheepies
I am agonizing over the decision of what design to use for my sheep tile. Since it’s the age of the lazyweb 2.0, I’m going to crowdsource the decision-making. So what say you, anonymous digital throng? Should I choose … Continue reading
The Dominion Caddy
The Catan Board
The Pips
The Robber
The Frame
The Tiles
