4 week project | Spring 2021.
Objective: create a themed chess set where each piece's shape subtley communicates the function of the piece in the game, either by position or movement.
Along with a classmate, I created a chess set themed as the dinosaurs VS celestial objects. Above you see pictured my side of the design, the celestial objects. Each piece holds code on how it moves, as well as personality of the pieces use in strategy. The pawn, for example, is textured with a mix of straight and diagonal lines as it can move both straight and diagonally. The pawn piece is a meteor, small and insignificant compared to a lot of the other pieces. The other pieces have similar meaning. The queen is the asteroid, the king Jupiter, bishops are moons, knights nebulas, and rooks stars.
This project made use of vector ideation and lasercutting, as well as its narrative and character elements.
