May 1, 2009
Ji Lee, Creative Director at Google and designer of the “Bubble Project” (amongst many other things) has re-imagined the chess board. Lee’s version transforms the flat playing surface into 3 dimensional battleground that better visually represents the play taking place.
[Ji Lee via Trendhunter]
Inspiration to make things better.
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While visually interesting, I don’t think this “better…represents the play taking place.”
To do that would require a better understanding of the areas of the chess board that are most vital to gameplay. You would instead end up with a raised center section (d4,d5,e4,e5 being the highest).
Ji’s site gives a better description, simply stating it “adds an extra dimension of physicality.”
May 3rd, 2009 at 11:46 pm
q bert style
go ji
May 4th, 2009 at 4:09 pm