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Face Today

What am I doing here?

Face Today is a set of colorful cards that invite to open-ended play. By layering cards with symbols, mouths, and eyes, players compose expressive faces to visualize emotions and reflect on themselves. A set of prompts places players in different scenarios, which they respond to by creating a face.

Face Today explores what school often fails to address. It gives players the room and freedom to communicate individual talents and desires and reveal who they are. Face Today can be played alone or together with others. The materials are fully customizable, either spontaneously or in preparation for a specific context, such as a workshop.

My Focus & Learnings

Research Learning and Education, Game Design, Experience Design, Trusting the process

Project duration

October 2025 – January 2026

a person puts together a face
Face Today cards with packaging

photo by Vincent Forstlechner

Face Today box being opened
a person puts together a face

photos by Vincent Forstlechner

Face today prompt cards
a person holds up a face
Face Today faces next to each other
a person draws on a paper with a stencil
superimposed diagrams showing game development process
Notes and sketches about learning and motivation preferences
Various mouths, symbols, face shapes and eyes cut out of paper
A face made with different pieces of paper
A face made with different pieces of paper
A face made with different pieces of paper
rasterized layout of potential face shapes
Prototype iterations on face today cards
Prototype iterations on face today cards

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