Interview

Steve Fink is the co-owner of Cincinnati-based Bang Zoom Design, one of the most prolific product invention companies in the toy space today.

We caught up with Heayes to find out why he feels just as creative now as when he first started out 25 years ago.

Pietro Righi Riva is the co-founder and director at Santa Ragione, an Italian design agency dedicated to creating experimental board games and video games.

The married design team won perhaps their most prestigious award to date when Exit scooped the Kennerspiel des Jahres earlier this year.

We caught up with the designer of Sushi Go, Imhotep and Bärenpark to discuss his accessibility-focused approach to game design.

We caught up with Phillipson to find out more about the creative culture at Alpha, how his own approach to design has changed over his 25 years in the industry and how the development process went for the firm’s Toy of the Year-nominated Drone Force Angler Attack.

We caught up with Hasbro’s Senior Director of Global Product Acquisition to find out how he stays creative, what his top find has been this year and why the phrase “you can’t surf from the beach” has stuck with him (and it’s not just because he’s a huge Point Break fan).

Ahead of this month’s event (taking place from November 16th to 19th at Chicago’s Navy Pier), we caught up with Couzin to talk about where the inspiration for ChiTAG came from, what to expect from this year’s event and how she stays creative (spoiler: it involved cocktails).

We caught up with Louie to find out where the Animoodles concept originated from, why Kickstarter is a perfect launch-pad and what her work with the Designers Guild (a family of Facebook communities encompassing over 15,000 members) entails.

We caught up with Stevenson to find out exactly what made her persevere with the concept, and get the lowdown on the next game in Absolute Dice portfolio.