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and a fast-food restaurant called Nachos Con Dios, complete with a poncho-wearing mascot in the shape of a tortilla chip. Alan didn't just design the graphics; he always presented them in the context of an advertisement, a grocery circular or a billboard to create not just a logo or packaging, but a whole concept of a brand—something so fundamental to the show's roadside aesthetic. These weren't pop-culture references; they were collective memory fragments turned into iconography, the kind of branding you could swear you'd seen before on a freeway, even though it never existed. Because the road is steeped in contradiction—of memory and truth—both a promise and a trap. It G BOX DESIGN CARDS BOARD GAME DESIGN 102-06, sc. 224 Int. Izzy's Apartment - Board Game, "Oh No, Armadillo!" WIP 01 scale: Not to Scale Graphics by A.C. 04.05.23 PRODUCTION DESIGNER: JONAH MARKOWITZ ART DIRECTOR: PAULA DAL SANTO TBD TBD CHOOSE YOUR ARMADILLO 20.3" 14.8" offers the illusion of freedom, but the lines on the pavement always point you back to who you are. So, when that car skids to a stop beside the phone—engine ticking, dust still hanging in the air—the audience is back at the beginning. But now we know what it means. Now we understand that the payphone isn't a relic; it's a crossroads. That the desert isn't empty; it's charged with myth and memory. That every frame isn't just a shot—it's a frontier: between character and landscape, between longing and arrival, between the lies we inherit and the truths we drive toward. ADG G. OH NO, ARMADILLO! GAME. GRAPHIC LAYOUT BY ALAN CHAO. H. LAUNDROMAT ILLUSTRATION BY ALAN CHAO. Jonah Markowitz, Production Designer Paula Dal Santo, Super vising Art Director Madie Hays, Art Director Jamie Gordon West, Assistant Art Director Thomas Minton, Jean Harter, James Maloof, Set Designers Alan Chao, Graphic Designer Sven Johnson, Illustrator James V. Kent, Set Decorator E F H