A typical question and answer game board, but this time with a level of physical interaction required. The creative team had come up with yet another good idea that required turning into a reality. The brief was to make a full size game board with a "spinning pointer" so that it could be spun by the players involved to generate the next question during a training session.
As is often the way on briefs such as this, there needs to be a degree of latitude in the way that we have to approach the job, and in this instance we had to come up with something pretty special in order to get the mechanism in place to allow the pointer to spin. The agency gave us a fairly wide brief to work within and we set to on resolving the latest conundrum.
The team chose to use a pre-fabricated A1 easel stand. This has the distinct advantage of allowing the game board to be mounted vertically, thereby making it much more accessible to the meeting room's participants. Given that we could strip the edge extrusions off of the easel board, this allowed us to mount a digital print directly onto the face of the flat sheet. By the time we had re-assembled the edge mouldings, you could see no evidence of where we had removed anything.
The next step was to fabricate a bearing and spindle assembly to fit the pointer to. This was to be the working part of the game board and needed to be smooth and easy to spin. Our in-house engineering skills were called into play and by making clever use of the resources available we were able to fashion a bespoke assembly that would fit neatly behind the upright easel board and present a suitable spindle through the face that would hold the spinning pointer.
All that now remained was to cut a pointer from 3.0mm solid black foam PVC and then assemble the elements together. What had started out as quite a tricky brief soon came together with a very polished finish. Once everything was in place and the easel stand erected, there was no shortage of people wanting to try out the new game board. Ingenuity and strong resources had allowed us to create a functional game board with minimal fuss. | 
