Pupils from The Piggott School in Reading, England, have won the Design Museum's Design Ventura competition with their invention of a card game that encourages children to learn about colours in their surroundings.
The Colour Countdown game came out on top in the competition, which invites secondary school students aged 13 to 16 to develop a product that can be sold in the Design Museum's gift shop.
Colour Countdown has won the 2024 Design Ventura competition
This year's brief, set by south London textile designer Kangan Arora, called for responses to the theme of colour and community, challenging students to consider "the importance of community practices, supporting and learning from one another".
The game devised by The Piggott School pupils is based on classic card games I Spy and Uno. It aims to encourage children to put down their devices and engage with the world around them to promote positive mental health. The cards feature colourful cellophane is made from wood pulp
The playing cards feature coloured cellophane windows that can be overlapped to create a blend of colours, which players then have to search out in their environment.
"You can play anywhere at all," explained the students in their pitch to a judging panel that included Arora and Dezeen's editorial director Max Fraser. "You draw cards of different colours ? red, blue, orange, green etc. ? and you have to look around and find objects in that colour."
The cellophane is made ...