Interactions Between Physical and Virtual Space - Black and White Paperback Edition

The crossover from board games to video games draws intriguing comparisons to the crossover that society is currently experiencing from the physical environment to the virtual environment. The ever-increasing awareness of the virtual environment is causing more of what once only existed in the physical environment to become re-established for use in virtual space. As society furthers this crossover, many aspects of the physical environment may become lost in the transfer from real to virtual. Because of this, it has become relevant for designers to design towards reconnecting the physical and virtual rather than designing only for one or the other. With this study of board and video games and their cross influences, graphic designers can be encouraged to seek out moments in which the physical and the virtual cross paths and create designs that serve to bridge the two rather than maintain the divide.