Lizzy wanders.

New Monobanda logo.

Lizzy wanders. — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:32:16 +0000

Creating the new logo for Monobanda took some time (almost 2 years on and off). With the redesign we wanted to maintain some old elements, like the organic feel and blue-ish color (for examples see the top ones of the ‘organic logos’ sheet). For a while we played around with the idea of a core floating around in a plant-like shape. Eventually that evolved into a fish creature, but we all thought that that looked a bit too swimming pool :P
We’ve always loved the thought of a little character seedbox that could contain all kinds of cool stuff, so that’s when I started designing different boxes and plants. In between I also came up with an Escher-like puzzle box, but that idea didn’t really hit the mark. The difficult part was to define a nice scale for the box and other elements. You can see I also thought about a cardboard box with a scenic environment. Still, looking at all the sketches and ideas that flowed around, the simple plant-in-a-box never left our minds.
After a lot of tweaking, scaling and molding I created a plant shape I liked that fitted the box. I interpreted the plant in different ways so it turned into a little fish and a question mark (see ‘final logos’ sheet).
We already made a Christmas ornament, butter block and pixel version, so I’m happy to say that the logo inspires us to create new things! :)

“Final logos”

“Final concepts”

“Concepts – boxes”

“Concepts – puzzle”

“Concepts – organic”

“Sketches”

“Monopixel”

“Monobutter”

“Monoball”

Project Mimicry.

Lizzy wanders. — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:32:24 +0000

Working on our real-life sandbox game Mimicry was both a treat and a challenge. Creating textures is different from the 2D work I’m used to. For me it’s something of a mystery what textures will do in a 3D environment. Furthermore the game world is projected on real sand, so it was challenging to find the right colors and trying to get a bright world that feels and looks playful. For our first prototype I believe we achieved just that :)
You can see my happy face on the photo. Playing with sand and seeing the terrain change in real-time is awesome!

“Artist impression”

“Concepts”

“Texture concepts”

“Happy photo”

Photography and 3D modeling by Niki Smit.

All artwork © Monobanda 2011

Disco Extravaganza.

Lizzy wanders. — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:21:04 +0000

I finally had the chance to do some extensive pixel art for one of our Monobanda projects. I think the last time I pixeled was about eight years ago, so it was really a lot of fun getting back into the zoom-in-mode.
Platform Dropstuff asked us (and other artists) to create a simple mobile app that can be played by logging in to their website and pressing a few buttons while being in a public area in front of a big Urban LED Screen. We created an app in which you can choose an avatar, then write a message (of max 5 letters) and launch yourself into the disco world to dance. The more people log in and launch, the busier and more animated the world gets.
We aimed for a colorful and vibrant design and quirky character animations (created by my colleague Mathijs). Try it out here!

“Logo”

“Characters”

“Backgrounds”

“Some screenshots”

All artwork © Monobanda 2011

Simogo fan art.

Lizzy wanders. — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:19:49 +0000

Simogo is a game studio based in Sweden. They created the awesome games Kosmo Spin and Bumpy Road for the iPhone. I had the privilege to try out a test version of Bumpy Road and fell in love with their quirky and cute character style, sounds and storytelling. They inspired me to make my first ever fan art :)

“Simogo fan art”

Do It Yourself DJ.

Lizzy wanders. — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:18:43 +0000

Monobanda’s music installation Bandjesland aka Do It Yourself DJ needed a mascot. So I created ‘Teepie’.
The first image shows some Teepie concepts and the final version. The second illustration is used to indicate that you can record your own samples on a cassette tape by placing it on the record symbol in the recording station area.

“Teepie”

“Record illustration”

All artwork © Monobanda 2011

Interfaces.

Lizzy wanders. — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:17:10 +0000

A while back I worked on some interface design for two of our projects at Monobanda. One of those projects is Mindset, a brainstorm tool developed by Monobanda and two smart young programmers called Michael & Bert. With this tool you can brainstorm really quick using images from the internet and create associations using words and visuals. The other project is iWhisper, a location based audio experiences app for the iPhone, developed together with Roel van der Kraan.

“iWhisper interface”

“Mindset interface”

“Mindset buttons”

All artwork © Monobanda 2011

Jonah birth card.

Lizzy wanders. — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 16:23:48 +0000

My friends Tsui Ying and Laurens asked me to design the birth announcement card for their recently born son Jonah. For the illustration I was inspired by things like Asian art and colors, Chinese and Dutch landscapes, the Year of the Tiger and the wind. So I was really pleased to hear what his Chinese name stands for: “universal mountain wind” :P.

“Jonah card front”

“Jonah card back”

“Jonah character”

Bohm tree leaves.

Lizzy wanders. — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 16:09:08 +0000

The past weeks I’ve been working on our game Bohm at Monobanda. Here are some of the designs I created for the tree leaves.

“Leaves sheet 4″

“Leaves sheet 3″

“Leaves sheet 2″

“Leaves sheet 1″

“Plant illustration”

“Leaves concepts”

“Screenshot with final leaves”

Logo design.

Lizzy wanders. — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:51:16 +0000

Created some logos for two of our Monobanda projects and one for a friend. iWhisper is a location based audio experiences app for the iPhone. The Lowlands 2010 logo was used for Monobanda’s playground competitions. The last one I made for hairdresser Carolien de Buck.
I’m still working on a new Monobanda logo in between work, so keep you posted on that one :)

“iWhisper pictorial marks”

“iWhisper logo”

“Lowlands 2010: Wanna pllay?”

“Buck is back”

Game Seeds card game.

Lizzy wanders. — Sat, 01 May 2010 15:31:33 +0000

“Game Seeds is a card game designed to spice up your brainstorm sessions on Character and Game Design.

Game Seeds are wild free-spirited tiny creatures that you can play with, combine, hack and get inspired by to bring new characters and game ideas to life.
The object of Game Seeds: design a Hero, design a Sidekick and design a Game by playing with a deck of cards.

Game Seeds has been designed by the Utrecht School of the Arts, Monobanda and Metagama for designers, students and creative professionals. Game Seeds is also to be used for workshops on Character Design as a playful experience and a real playcentric approach to creating Innovative Games.”

A project commissioned by the Utrecht School of the Arts: Games & Interaction.
Game design by Christophe Berg of Metagama.
Artwork by Liselore Goedhart of Monobanda.
Concept design actions in collaboration with Niki Smit of Monobanda.

Check out www.gameseeds.net for more information :)

“Final design”

“Final illustrations”

“Icon design”

“Concept art”

“Illustrations: other versions”

“Press photo”

Photography by Niki Smit.