Schmidt called them “thoughts behind the thoughts” and Eno called them “oblique strategies” and in 1975 they combined them and put out a limited edition of 500 signed decks. Eno is probably best known for his music – he coined the term “ambient music” and was the one that made it famous – and Schmidt for his paintings, but the deck that they created together has applications well beyond music and painting.īoth Eno and Schmidt had a collection of sayings to break creative blocks: prompts, questions, suggestions, or cryptic quizzical notes. The Oblique Strategies deck has become a legend of the art and design worlds.Ĭory Doctorow I use “artist” to describe Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt because their creative outputs span such a ridiculously wide gamut. In 1975 the artists Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt published a set of cards designed to provoke creative thinking.
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