Polygon Thrones

When you see Arya Stark rendered in geometric planes, something clicks. It’s still unmistakably her, but you’re looking straight through to the structure underneath, all those sharp decisions that make a face readable.

Mordi Levi, a designer and illustrator based in Israel, builds these at his computer. He’s taken the main characters from Game of Thrones—Arya, Daenerys, Tyrion, Margaery, Khal Drogo—and reduced them to facets and blocks of color. The work looks like elaborate craft pieces made from colored cardboard, where you see every decision and understand the method immediately. Not photorealism trying to impress you. Just honest geometry.

There’s something I appreciate about this approach. Instead of rendering more detail, he’s rendering less, and somehow that’s harder. It requires understanding the character well enough to reduce them without losing them. Economy of line, specificity in color. The kind of design work that looks effortless but obviously wasn’t.

I’d hang these. Large, one after another in a room. The kind of thing you’d catch in the corner of your eye and it would never stop working.