Rita la rateta playing pieces for Anna Sabater

The project

Anna Sabater, who writes the Rita la rateta stories under the pen name Anna Batterbeen, commissioned Archicercle to make wooden pieces for the board game she was producing. The work translated the books’ characters into playing figures, taking Olga Strihelskaya’s designs as its starting point.

Archicercle’s contribution was to reinterpret the characters and make the pieces. The commission began with an established visual world: rather than creating new characters, the task was to give them a physical form as board game pieces.

All the elements were engraved and then laser-cut from 5 mm plywood. The engraving carries the details of the drawing across the surface, while the cut defines each figure’s silhouette.

The figures stand on circular bases, combining each character’s outline with its engraved drawing. The set brings together different storybook silhouettes through a shared material and form.

Processes and materials: fabrication services · available materials · studio machinery.