Publisher Representation
We identify publishers whose product lines and creative needs fit your work, make targeted introductions, manage follow-up, and help keep opportunities moving.
For Artists & Graphic Designers
Your work should reach the right tables.
Best in Play represents artists and graphic designers working in tabletop, connecting strong creative talent with publishers, licensed properties, and projects that need the right visual voice.
Great creative work deserves the right project.
Tabletop FocusRepresentation built specifically around board games, card games, RPGs, TCGs, and related tabletop products
Publisher AccessTargeted introductions to companies whose products, schedules, and creative needs fit your work
Agency SupportRepresentation, negotiation support, relationship management, and opportunity development
Creative talent is part of the product strategy.
In tabletop, illustration and graphic design are not decoration added at the end. They shape shelf presence, usability, brand expression, player comprehension, and whether a licensed product feels authentic to its world. We help publishers and IP partners find the talent that fits, and we help artists find the work where their strengths matter most.
Services for artists and graphic designers
We can represent a single opportunity or build an ongoing agency relationship around your tabletop work, depending on the structure that makes sense for you.
Licensed Project Matching
We look for opportunities where your style is a natural fit for a specific entertainment property, brand, character universe, or licensed tabletop product.
Agency Representation
Best in Play can act as your business-facing tabletop representative, supporting outreach, positioning, opportunity development, and commercial conversations.
Portfolio Positioning
Help present your work for the tabletop market, identify the categories where your portfolio is strongest, and frame your experience for publisher and licensor review.
Project & Scope Support
Assist with project expectations, schedules, deliverables, usage scope, licensing considerations, and business-side communication before work begins.
Deal & Relationship Support
Support negotiations and ongoing business relationships so you can spend more time doing the creative work and less time chasing emails, paperwork, and next steps.
The right artist can change the entire commercial identity of a tabletop product.
Why Best in Play
Representation by people who understand the finished product.
Our work sits inside tabletop publishing, licensing, product development, manufacturing, and game design. That means we understand where creative work fits in the larger product, what publishers need from a collaborator, and how art and graphic design affect both usability and market positioning.
Tabletop-specific
We focus the relationship on the tabletop industry, including board games, card games, party games, miniatures, RPGs, family games, hobby products, TCGs, CCGs, expansions, and related accessories.
Targeted opportunities
We look for projects where the creative brief, company, audience, schedule, and visual direction actually fit your strengths.
Business-side support
We help with outreach, positioning, communication, and negotiations while you retain control over the creative work you accept.
Long-term relationships
The goal is not simply one assignment. It is to build durable relationships between great creative talent and the companies that need it.
Representation that fits the relationship.
Some creatives want help with selected opportunities. Others want Best in Play serving as their dedicated tabletop agency. We can structure representation accordingly.
Help with the right project.
For a specific opportunity, we can help facilitate the relationship, scope the business conversation, and support the path to agreement.
Add an agency without giving up independence.
We source and develop tabletop opportunities while you remain free to pursue other work independently or through other relationships.
Make Best in Play your tabletop agency.
For artists who want a dedicated business-development partner, we can serve as the exclusive representative for covered tabletop work while leaving work outside the industry untouched.
From portfolio to project.
We start by understanding your work and the kinds of opportunities that fit it, then build relationships with the companies and properties where that work can have the most impact.
1
Review
Understand your portfolio, experience, style range, availability, goals, and preferred kinds of tabletop work.
2
Position
Identify the product categories, publishers, brands, and creative briefs where your work is strongest.
3
Connect
Make targeted introductions and present your portfolio in the context of an actual creative need.
4
Negotiate
Support scope, schedule, compensation, usage, and other business terms around the opportunity.
5
Grow
Maintain publisher relationships, look for follow-on work, and continue developing opportunities across the tabletop industry.
We are building a roster of exceptional tabletop creative talent.
We are interested in experienced professionals and distinctive emerging voices whose work can help publishers, licensors, and game creators make stronger products.
IllustrationCharacter, environment, narrative, iconographic, decorative, and product-facing art.
Graphic DesignCards, boards, rules, packaging, information hierarchy, systems, and production-ready layout.
LicensedCreative talent comfortable working within established worlds, brand guidelines, and approvals processes.
TabletopProfessionals who understand that beauty, clarity, usability, and production all have to work together.
Interested in tabletop representation?
Send us a link to your portfolio, a little about your experience, and the kinds of projects you want more of. We will start by looking for fit, not simply volume.