My Name is Wendy combines work, play and beautiful graphics

Date
6 May 2015

Many designers talk of the importance of play as a way to explore creativity and come up with solutions that rigorous hard-work might not unearth. Parisian studio My Name is Wendy has taken this to its logical conclusion, by creating a board game called Byland. As with the studio’s previous output, it looks stunning, and mixes gorgeous graphics with a strategy-based game combining cognition and aesthetics. We’re not sure we totally understand the rules, perhaps due to a combination of them being slightly lost in translation and our own inability to finish a game of Snap, let alone Risk, but boy does it look good.

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My Name is Wendy: Byland

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My Name is Wendy: Byland

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My Name is Wendy: Byland

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My Name is Wendy: Byland

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My Name is Wendy: Byland

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Emily Gosling

Emily joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in the summer of 2014 after four years at Design Week. She is particularly interested in graphic design, branding and music. After working It's Nice That as both Online Editor and Deputy Editor, Emily left the company in 2016.

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