Oblique Strategies (2022)

My own digital version of the Oblique Strategies cards by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, built with Phoenix.

The original Oblique Strategies was created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt in the 1970's. It's original format was a deck of 7-by-8 cm playing cards. The purpose of these cards is to promote lateral thinking.

There are already several digital formats of these cards. None, of the current formats I found very acessible or available to me so I decided to create my own version to scratch and itch and help learn Phoenix Phoenix is a web-framework written with Elixir. Elixir, in turn, is built on top of the Erlang BEAM vm better.

In 2022 I finished up my initial draft of Oblique Strategies for my own amusement. Im not a stellar designer so I ended up sticking with a greyscale scheme in a sort of brutalist layout. I wanted the text to appear in a format that somewhat resembled a card to pay homage to the origins.