Rory’s Story Cubes is a dice based story building activity. It has expanded far beyond its marketed use becoming an incredibly versatile tool for confidence building, literacy development and creativity.
I was delighted to be asked back to the (then) Creativity Hub to help expand the licensed StoryToys sets of Rory’s Story Cubes, having worked on the icons. To have to capture so much in such a limited space gave us the opportunity to really push what could be done. I still have a pile of sketchbooks where I’ve drawn and redrawn icons. Incidentally, a British pound coin is roughly the size of an icon and a .5 Sharpie the approximate width of the thinnest line we could use.
Returning brought a chance to make the Adventure Time set, being involved in the packaging design process and compiling the localised files for the box and instruction insert. When your job involves watching a TV show you love and drawing, there’s not a lot that feels like work. Rory and Anita built this brand from the ground up and it was an honour to to work on them.
At the end of my time there I’d worked on Batman, Scooby Doo, Doctor Who, Loony Tunes, Adventure Time and Star Wars. I also created story illustrations for the re-release of the original three sets, telling a story based on the cubes’ outer-facing faces.
