Joseph Miffitt

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Design Interests

Why I’m Here
I have always been one to sketch and create many ideas and visions that came into mind. I love creating stories and designs for characters, places, machinery and entities alike. This only grew with my rapidly accelerating interest in table-top gaming. Whenever I learn a new game, or watch a new playtest, I feel compelled to add my own rules and characters; I feel an urge to start drawing out ideas and how these rules may look on the table. I have come to Graphic Design to gain the skills which will grant me the ability to work and rework my overflowing bucket of ideas.

Kev Walker M.T.G. Card Design 

Table-Top Game Design 

Going Further in Design
As far as a second interest, I find myself enthralled with album art and have been guilty of choosing albums based on the design of the cover. As much as many “beauty idealists” may want to argue, humans are an aesthetically driven, impulsive, species. You almost don’t have a choice to judge a book by its cover, it is instinctual to have a prepared decision on a person or product purely by what you see in the first 10 seconds. I find it important for this reason for album art to capture its viewer in a trance of musically assisted aesthetic pleasure. The album should embody the perceptual concepts of the music. There are some legendary album designs out there and they certainly pushed the viewer to listen.

Phil Hartman Legendary Album Cover Design