Branding “Trivia Night with Andy”

AKA the Best Type of Unpaid Design Work

My wonderful husband Andy and I are trivia fanatics. We watch trivia shows (The Floor is a current favorite) and we’ve played pub trivia weekly for more than a decade.

During the COVID pandemic, much of that disappeared or went on hiatus. To keep from going stir crazy, Andy started hosting a weekly trivia game on Zoom.

Once people got vaxxed and returned to the world, Andy approached a local brewery and got a weekly trivia hosting gig. This new side hustle gave me a new design outlet and a job with graphic design’s holy grail, TOTAL CREATIVE FREEDOM.

I had about a week to design a flyer promoting trivia night for the brewery. Andy’s trivia game spans a wide range of knowledge, and he wanted to communicate that to players who might shy away from certain topics. It’s often as silly as it is challenging.

I chose an obvious composite style featuring anachronistic imagery to convey the breadth of topics, the depth of knowledge, and with a dash of fun thrown in. Here is the first official flyer for Trivia Night with Andy:

This flyer was so much fun to design that I developed new concepts each week. I loved combining disparate subject matter like Marie Antoinette clutching a Teletubby, Shakespeare sitting beside a lava lamp, and Galileo holding a singing novelty bass. Here are some of my favorites:

Branching out with Business Cards and More

Sadly, the brewery that originally hired Andy shut down in 2023, but he found a new gig at a restaurant and is now on his second year of Monday night trivia there.

With the change in venue, we spruced up the branding. I made a proper logo, new flyers, and launched a website, trivia-andy.com.

I had previously used MOO for business cards, so I knew about their Printfinity feature, which allows you to print a different design on every card at no extra cost. This was the perfect option for trivia themed business cards; we printed different questions on each card.

If you think this is cool as hell (because it is), feel free to use my affiliate link to get 25% off when you design your own set of cards.

Check out the newest flyer design below, and if you’re in Raleigh, why not come out to Nancy’s Pizza with some friends and try to win the coveted first place prize, a $50 restaurant gift card?