Gluckhaus Boards In the Works!

I'm happy to help spread the word that the Scarlet Onagers Guild is getting into selling stuff online. They hope to get costume accessories, entertainment, and jewelry into your hands before the next Renaissance Faire Season.

Gluckhaus Boards

The Gluckhaus board artwork I posted previously is going to be sold on fabric and vinyl boards. So far, it sounds like they'll sell the Gluckhaus board on it's own, or as part of a Game Set with a nim & tic-tac-toe pouch to hold all your game pieces and bar money.

I've recently seen the boards and am really excited they are going to be offering these items online soon. I'll keep you updated here when they launch their online store! You can also watch for updates and learn all about them by following them on facebook or on the Scarlet Onagers blog!

Scarlet Onagers Guild Design

The Scarlet Onager Guild of Oregon is raising funds for next year by selling their logo on Threadless. As the designer of the logo, RedPress has added it to their store to help spread the word.

The Scarlet Onagers are a Volunteer Guild for Canterbury Renaissance Faire in Salem, Oregon. Funds from their Vending Booth at Canterbury helps pay for expenses related to the Faire. These expenses include buying inventory for the next year, buying camping and vending equipment, and feeding Scarlet Onagers and other Faire Volunteers.

This past year a much needed French Press, Tea Kettle, and a camp stove were added to the equipment inventory. This coming year, the Scarlet Onager Board hope to expand vending inventory, buy fabric to create  a couple new spare uniforms, and perhaps buy a camping shower and curtain.

Help the Scarlet Onagers out! Buy a shirt, sticker, or a variety of other products with the Scarlet Onager Logo. There are also other ways to help, as well. Check out their Blog here, or like and share their Facebook page here!

Gluckhaus Board

Another Project I've worked on for the Scarlet Onagers Guild is an original graphic for a Gluckhaus game board. Gluckhaus, or Lucky Pig, is a traditional English and German Game from hundreds of years ago.

The game board can be created with playing cards or drawn in the dirt with a stick, but having an already printed game is easier for new users to keep the pieces in order. Along with the board, the game utilizes two dice and a variety of game pieces, traditionally small coins. The game is purely of chance, but plays well as a drop-in, drop-out game typical of street gambling games. This translates well into a party game played with pennies or chips.

Where To Get a Game

The game is fairly wide spread across Renaissance Faires far and wide. If you want a copy of a game board and rules, it can be easily found online... but the far more exciting way to obtain this game is to head to your local Renaissance Faire this summer and ask around. You'll be helping out a small group of vendors and you'll see many exciting things as well.

Check out the Scarlet Onagers and their new game board on their Facebook Page.

Scarlet Onager Logo

I quite enjoyed working on this graphic for the Scarlet Onagers Guild of Salem, Oregon. The Scarlet Onagers are a group of background characters at the Canterbury Renaissance Faire in Oregon. They spend the two weekends of the Faire assisting with landscape needs, crowd control, and whatever needs the vendors and Faire staff.

What Works in a Logo

The guild wanted a simple logo that stood out, but was in some way linked to the name "Scarlet Onagers" that had been adopted. The final graphic had to be bitmapped (no shading or grayscaling, with clearly defined edges) in order to make it easy to screen print the logo onto clothing, game boards, or other materials.

Practice Makes Happy

When creating the logo, many iterations appeared. An "Onager" is a small donkey from Asia. One was a full body silhouette of a young donkey, another had the young donkey within the outline of a traditional English crest, and the third was only the head of the donkey. After quite a bit of tweaking, the neck was added, the eyes were adjusted, and the final version of the logo was adopted by the guild.

The guild has a few iterations of the final logo. They have a vector version in case the logo needs updating later. They also have a version in their guild color of a muted crimson, one in black for ease of screen printing, and one with "the Scarlet Onagers" in a lovely script font upon the neck of the logo.