Lotería Cards: A Mexican Card Game
A 30-day, 30 minutes a-day project aimed to practice a design skill, meant for building a creative habit by making a cohesive body of work. For my project, I designed a set of 16 cards inspired by the Mexican bingo-like game Lotería, tying in the things I find representative of my experience being Mexican. In order to lay out the project, I created 4 categories of illustrations I would do: plants, people, traditional objects, food.
Roles: Illustrator, Designer
![CONTENT_Lotería_new CONTENT_Lotería_new](https://alexryberggonzalez.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CONTENT_Loteria_new.png)
The Process
To start off, I defined the contents of my cards, and got to doing some rough sketches. After sketching, I went to Adobe Illustrator and starting using the pen tool. Before this project, I had not had much experience using the pen tool, which was a skill I was able to improve throughout the course of the project. The process for one card looked like this...
![PROCESS_Lotería_01 PROCESS_Lotería_01](https://alexryberggonzalez.com/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/PROCESS_Loteria_01-portrait-98f9b6e266b4b3491a8d2f6f7769a6e9-uw3r8s0mbiz9.png)
![PROCESS_Lotería_Illustration02 PROCESS_Lotería_Illustration02](https://alexryberggonzalez.com/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/PROCESS_Loteria_Illustration02-portrait-602ab72f0978c749891a8c83b7a51422-lsgbedcqkhyp.png)
![PROCESS_Lotería_Illustration03 PROCESS_Lotería_Illustration03](https://alexryberggonzalez.com/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/PROCESS_Loteria_Illustration03-portrait-f4d4a34ba1d5a831cc48ab2175ba2055-s3f4y92jqegc.png)
![PROCESS_Lotería_Illustration04 PROCESS_Lotería_Illustration04](https://alexryberggonzalez.com/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/PROCESS_Loteria_Illustration04-portrait-ebcc804d156fe4e38f7bd7a59f578cb0-wqhn65migxeo.png)
Final Product
Bringing it all together, I layed out my set of 16 cards onto a Lotería sheet, adding simple typography inspired by the many Lotería games I have played throughout my life.
![Lotería ehibit1 Lotería ehibit1](https://alexryberggonzalez.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Loteria-ehibit1-scaled.jpeg)
![FINDUCT_Lotería_real FINDUCT_Lotería_real](https://alexryberggonzalez.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/FINDUCT_Loteria_real.png)
In March of 2024, this piece was featured in a design exhibit in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.