One of the principles I truly believe in as a designer is that you can make work while you are learning how to do whatever it is you do. I don’t think creative endeavors should be limited to only the experts nor do I think that creative learning should be a rote exercise. It should be an experience the end of which yields something to show for your effort, beautiful or not.

This little board game is a great example of that. Over the holiday break, some years back my son asked me to help him create a hide-and-seek board game for us to play inside while we waited out the winter. I came up with a layered paper construction that featured opening doors as hiding locations. I had just gotten an iPad so I created all of the artwork in Procreate, a program about which I knew very little. It was slow going, but in the end, I learned how to use the app and now I have this funny board game inspired by a 5-year-old.