Oblique Strategies – Quirky Solutions to Creative Problems

This Notion template contains 134 prompts from the famous Oblique Strategies card deck first published by musician and producer Brian Eno and artist Peter Schmidt in 1975. Each text prompt is accompanied by an AI-generated image from Midjourney.

The prompts are intended to help overcome creative blocks by offering suggestions and constraints. Some are abstract, some are concrete. Some are music-specific and some are just weird.

From Wikipedia:

Oblique Strategies (subtitled Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas) is a card-based method for promoting creativity jointly created by musician/artist Brian Eno and multimedia artist Peter Schmidt, first published in 1975. Physically, it takes the form of a deck of 7-by-9-centimetre (2.8 in × 3.5 in) printed cards in a black box.[1][2][3] Each card offers a challenging constraint intended to help artists (particularly musicians) break creative blocks by encouraging lateral thinking.

The Notion template uses a special formula to display one random card. Refresh your browser window to shuffle.

It's thought-provoking and a little bit silly.

Be creative, and have fun!