Playing Card Design
トランプの意匠 / 15th century– / Style / Games and Play
The 52-sheet design polished by centuries of use: double-ended court cards, the semiotics of suits, repeating back patterns. Wear and recognition produced a completeness that is also the prehistory of UI design.
Double-ended court cards / Suit signs / Corner indices / Repeating back patterns
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the Rouen pattern lineage / the invention of indices / regional standard patterns