ART WARS!
A creative combat experience designed to kick your team’s problem-solving and creative thinking into high gear.
(90 minutes – 2 hours depending on group size)
Creative Carnage Designed to Make Teams Think
Art Wars is a battle-based creative thinking experience that uses drawing as a strategic tool, not an artistic skill.
Through a series of fast-paced drawing duels, team challenges and rapid-fire knowledge rounds, participants are pushed to think tactically, communicate visually and adapt their approach in real time.
Designed for teams of 9 – 40 participants
The DUEL ROUNDS reward clever problem-solving and quickly reveal each participant’s default thinking style.
TEAM BATTLES shift the focus to communication and cooperation under time pressure, with every team member stepping onto the front line.
Competition is built in.
Winning teams earn power cards, impose creative handicaps, or steal advantages from their opponents, keeping the energy high and strategy front of mind until the final showdown.
Creativity Just Became A Contact Sport
THE MISSION
ROUND 1: ASSASSINATION DUELS
Speed-draw with a target on your back. You draw it, they kill it. You react, you evolve, or you die.
This is pattern-breaking at its most ruthless.
ROUND 2: TEAM WARFARE
High-speed visual decoding. No talking. No mercy. Race to identify the target, steal Power Cards from your rivals and deploy sabotage.
ROUND 3: THE FINAL BATTLE
Use your looted Power Cards to draw your Ultimate Battle Creature. This is where strategy meets creativity. Every masterpiece needs a superpower and a weakness.
Design your champion before the final buzzer.
ROUND 3: THE DEBRIEF
The dust has settled. Weary warriors head back to HQ for debrief.
We analyse the complete picture: how your team thinks, communicates and adapts under pressure, and what those battle creatures say about the minds that made them.
This is where the play becomes insight your team carries back to their real work.
WHY ART WARS?
Zero Art Skills Required
We don’t care if you can draw a circle. We care if you can think on your feet.
Strategic Sabotage
Use the “Handicap” system to mess with your colleagues. It’s fun, it’s petty, it’s a riot.
Radical Problem Solving
Nothing clears a ‘creative block’ faster than someone trying to blow up your drawing.
All Done For You
We bring the materials, the chaos, and the energy. You bring the competitive spirit.
The result? A team that is tighter, faster and significantly less afraid to throw a bold idea at the wall.
THE PAYOFF
While your team is busy sabotaging rivals and building monsters, they are secretly practicing some of the most high-value skills in the modern economy:
Rapid, Creative Problem Solving
Adapting to changing circumstances under time pressure
Communication
Breaking down abstract ideas into easy to understand visuals
Taking Initiative Within Constraints
Creating momentum by inventing solutions inside clear limits
DEPLOYMENT INTEL.
Designed for 9-40 participants
Depending on numbers, participants will be placed in groups of 3-6 players
Venue: Choose Your Battlefield
Consider your venue carefully. There will be whistles, shouting, running, and (depending on your team) some light elbowing to push each other out of the way. There will also be moments of intense, pin-drop silence.
Each person needs physical space to draw, and teams need room to break apart to create away from prying enemy eyes.
For Teams of 9–12: A large corporate boardroom with plenty of table space and elbow room will work.
For Teams of 13+: We need to break out of the corporate box. You will need a large open-plan training room, a rented community hall, or (our personal favourite) a reserved space at a local pub.
Agent Milan supplies all the creative weaponry (paper, pens, materials). You supply the space and the team.
Available in Perth, Western Australia
Art Wars is currently available throughout the Perth, WA metro area
MISSION INVESTMENT
TIER 1: THE SQUAD (Up to 9 Personnel)
Investment: A$4,500 (+ GST)
Designed for executive leadership groups or smaller teams. Intense, focused, and easily deployed in a standard corporate boardroom.
90 minutes
TIER 2: THE PLATOON (10 to 20 Personnel)
Investment: $7,000 (+ GST)
The standard deployment. Perfect for entire departments, regional sales teams, or cross-functional groups looking to break out of their creative ruts.
(Requires a medium sized off-site venue ie: function room or pub space with tables).
2 hrs with 30 minute debrief
TIER 3: THE ARMY (21 to 40 Personnel)
Investment: $9,000 (+ GST)
Maximum creative carnage. Designed for large-scale interventions, or major departmental resets.
(Requires a large off-site venue ie: community hall, or large pub space with tables).
2 hrs with 30 minute debrief
YOUR MISSION COMMANDER
Very Special Agent Nicola Milan brings a lethal combination to the battlefield: B2B heavy-industry executive experience running events, conferences and workshops – crossed with an award-winning background in illustration and visual strategy.
She specialises in stripping away creative anxiety, forcing corporate executives to think outside the box, and ensuring the creative carnage runs rampant.
Book your mission today
nm@nicolamilanstudio.com
Art Wars™, its name, format, structure, rules, gameplay mechanics, exercises, and associated materials are the intellectual property of Nicola Milan. No part of this experience may be copied, reproduced, adapted, facilitated, or delivered in whole or in part without prior written permission. Unauthorised use is prohibited.