Oblique Strategies is a deck of creative prompts developed by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt in the 1970s. Each card contains an ambiguous instruction meant to help break creative deadlocks.
Each time you tap the space bar, a new instruction appears — a new constraint, a new direction. This LOW RES edition reimagines the deck as a fullscreen color-field experience.
“If a card presents more than one possibility, it is asking you to notice your own reaction to the options.”
— Brian Eno
“The question is the point. The art is in choosing one.”
— Peter Schmidt
“When you don’t know what to do, notice your reaction to the alternatives. That’s the strategy.”
— Brian Eno
Oblique Strategies is a deck of creative interventions created in 1975 by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt. Each card contains an ambiguous instruction designed to help break creative deadlocks and encourage sideways thinking.
The deck is not prescriptive. It does not tell you what to do. Instead, it introduces questions, dilemmas, reversals, and constraints that push you into new territory. The effect is subtle: when you’re stuck, you draw a card, follow the instruction—or the feeling the instruction produces—and something shifts.
Some cards contain multiple options (such as “Destroy / —nothing / —the most important thing”). These are not checklists. They are invitations to notice your reaction. The choice itself—even the discomfort around the choice—is the strategy.
This LOW RES edition reimagines Oblique Strategies as a fullscreen color-field instrument. Each card is presented as a moment: a field of color, a line of text, a shift in sensation. Tap to draw a new card. Let the color and constraint influence your next move.
There is no history, no back button, no undo. Only one direction: forward.