Competition Winner!

Congratulations to Carolynne Cotton who is the winner of our newsletter competition!

Of course the answer was: When was the Wright Brothers first flight?

Photo: Carolynne Cotton, Local Studies,

Archives and Museum Manager at London

Borough of Hillingdon

We hope Carolynne enjoys her Champagne prize and we would like to thank everybody who

participated in the competition, better luck next time!

Oxford Games

Max recently completed a project with Oxford Games Ltd, a renowned board game designer and creators of classic games such as Jenga and Playing Shakespeare. Oxford Games have recently decided to reintroduce some of their family favourite board games with some digitisation assistance from Max. Leslie Scott, one of the founders of Oxford Games has overseen the digitisation process. Using scans of the original board game materials we were able to do layer by layer restoration of the games; Flummoxed and Bookworm, two unique and compelling titles.  

  

Before

After

As original games are over 20 years old, the work we faced involved a lot of restoration. The games were hand coloured by pencil and the vibrancy of the colours had deteriorated over time, so we were tasked to colour correct them to revitalise the images. We modernised the branding along with other aspects of the games that needed renovating, in some cases we were able to recover damaged cards from the originals and fully restore them. 

All of our staff who participated in the work thoroughly enjoyed the assignment and stated that it was fun to find solutions to each aspect of the project they encountered.