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December 16, 2020
Grace Ebert
Artist Nina Chanel Abney revitalizes the basic sport of UNO along with her distinct fragmented figures and daring blocks of shade in a brand new collaboration with Mattel. Straying from the minimal, numbered playing cards, full of life portraits and mirrored personas emblazon the reworked deck. Identical to her bigger physique of labor, Abney’s design is brimming with power and captures the wildly chaotic expertise of recent life.
“I needed the playing cards to have persona,” Abney shares. “UNO could be such an emotional sport, I believed it will be enjoyable to create playing cards that would converse for themselves and elicit much more of a response from the gamers than they already are.”
At present dwelling in New York, the Chicago-born artist is simply the third creator concerned within the UNO Artiste Sequence, which launched in 2019 and beforehand featured the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. Along with the deck’s aesthetic transformation, Abney additionally altered the sport’s tenets with the addition of a WILD NO. “If somebody performs both a Draw 2 or Wild Draw 4 card on you, lay down this card to power them to have to attract the playing cards as a substitute,” the artist writes on Instagram.
Abney’s deck simply launched this week and is obtainable for pre-order in Mattel’s store. As a part of the collaboration, the toy firm additionally will likely be making a donation to Pharrell Williams’ Black Ambition, a nonprofit devoted to supporting Black and Latinx entrepreneurs.
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