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The Process
I found working on this project to be an experience of free thinking. It was hard not to criticize my own forced connections when it was important to just have fun with it. My group certainly was able to open their minds and collaborate on this madness. The minds maps were absolutely necessary for this process to unfold and I can see myself using them whenever I may have difficulty freeing my thoughts.

Mind Map

25 Combination Possibilities

1. Football + Remote
   
2. Money +Pipe
3. Razor + Farm
4. Toolbox + Cat
5. Moon + Pipe
6. Galaxy + Rust
7. Laundry + Belt
8. Button + Grill
9. Guitar + Bacon
10. Bird + Locker
11. Money + Book
12. Sheep + Pixel
13. Crash + Guitar
14. Car + Galaxy
15. Pig + Television
16. Bacon + Cave
17. Zombie + Dice
18. Burger + Bolt
19. Card + Pipe
20. Mosquito + Scissors
21. Dice + Motor
22. School + Box
23. Moon + Rust
24. Amplifier + Pig
25. Zombie + Guitar

Ten Chosen Combinations

1. Moon + Pipe: Here I first thought of an old crescent moon with a sherlock pipe.
2. Razor + Farm: Corn rows of your everyday body razor and a farmer to tend his metal crop.
3. Button + Grill: I pictured the button as the grill top as well as the buttons being patties on the grill.
4. Guitar + Bacon: I thought of replacing the neck of the guitar with sweet bacon, Hendrix playing with his teeth makes so much more sense now.
5. Money+ Book: I saw a phonebook full of money, who doesn’t want that?
6. Sheep + Pixel: Pretty much kept with a pixelized sheep, however my original idea was a sheep with pixel fur.
7. Zombie + Dice: A couple oozing, rotting dice or simply bones with teeth gnawing at them.
8. Burger + Bolt: I pictured a burger as the cloud with lightning shooting down.
9. Mosquito + Scissors: This one was my favorite; a pair of scissors with little eyes and legs to resemble a mosquito.
10. Pig + Amplifier: A pig with the body of an amp and the tail as the guitar jack.

Favorite Thumbnails

• Mosquito Scissors
• Sheep Pixel
• Button Grill

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