GETTING GOOD AT GRADIENTS For this Design Time I wanted to take a moment to discuss making good gradients. When designers are starting design, there are fundamentals that are important to understand. Color theory is one of those fundamentals that will help your art and design look much better once you understand how it all works. Picking snappy gradients does overlap with color theory, but without getting too much into the weeds of things, I'll provide some quick pointers and

Tristam Rossin is a designer and Illustrator living in Manchester, England. He’s spent the last 20 years working in illustration, design, marketing and web development. After being made redundant three years ago, his eight-year-old daughter returned home one evening with a board game she had designed. He figured he would try and do the same and has never looked back. Three years later Tris has had two games signed, and has developed the art and design for over a dozen publica

Katia Howatson is an artist and board game enthusiast. When she is not playing games, she is making board game component mosaics. These beautiful works of art will be reproduced in a high quality calendar comprised of 13 works of art inspired by publishers such as Stonemaier, Gamelyn, Board & Dice and many more! This calendar will be released on Kickstarter soon. JF: I saw your work online and immediately fell in love with it. Where did you get the idea to make your mosaics f