Modernism in Pieces - Educational Game

4.1

mandate

Design, develop and build a paper-based educational game based on a major art movement of the 20th century: Modernism. The variety within the Modernist era was inspiring and encouraged me to expand my boundaries and explore different types of design, color, and thinking that allowed me to come up with a creative solution.

4.2

insight

Modernism is a broad movement that includes 10 art movements going from the 1860s to the 1970s. The game is composed of 15 cubes of different shapes that act like a wall if you stack them on top of each other. “Modernism in pieces” is a 2-player game where players have to build a wall that creates a collage artwork. All pieces are designed on all sides which means that your piece choices will affect your rival’s final collage piece, and vice versa. The player who builds the most interesting eye-catching wall wins.

4.3

outcome

Each piece is designed as a collage that represents one modernist movement: on one side there is a sample of a typeface used at the time, and all the other sides showcase the movements’ most iconic art pieces of art. They all come together as a bigger collage to represent the unity of the small movements that ultimately create Modernism. The Modernist period was full of changes and new inventions, it was a period full of enthusiasm and life, that is why the colors red and yellow are the focus of the game, because of how vivid and alive they are.