Briscola Antica

IAMARINO, HENRIQUE SCUOLA POLITECNICA DI DESIGN

ANCIENT BRISCOLA A historical approach to Neapolitan playing cards.

Design concept

IV

How to play?

VI

Structure Codes and variables The card set

VIII X XII

D ES I G N C ONC E P T

Origins of the Guardians of Rome Ideating a set of playing cards inspired by the History of Napoli and its defensive power.

Napoli is one of the most

The city was then

ancient cities in Italian

ssimilated by the Roman

ground, with a great

Empire becaming

importance in the past.

a great example of the greek and roman culture.

Once Neapolis, Napoli was formed as a greek county and by its privileged location helped Rome to defeat Cartaghean army attempts of invasion by the south.

HOW TO PLAY?

Treasures and Weapons Differences between

Did you know that in Napoli,

the Neapolitan and

Italia, people play cards with

American Card Deck

a completely different deck?

Unlike the Standard 52 card deck, southern Italians use a 40 card deck.

Also, Neapolitan cards, Briscola or Scopa, are not numbered, so you need to count how many of that particular suit are on the card.

SUITS AND FIGURES

The two of swords,

The four suits are

for instance, has two swords

BASTONI

drawn on it, but no numbers.

Clubs

This type of card goes up

SPADE

to seven. After that, for the

Spades

eight, nine and ten, there

DENARI

are face cards.

Diamonds

RE

COPPE

King > Emperor

Hearts

CAVALLO Knight > Legionnaire FANTE Knave > Greek Lord

S T R U C T U RE

Character positioned with hands ready to carry on each one of four suits.

And its mirrored vision after middle line of card.

Suits arranged in a grid of seven - with composition changing from one card to another.

The structure of the cards Although working just the

In its turn suit cards are

same, differently from original

presented similarly as they

Scopa figure cards were

are in original cards.

structure to show reflected

They are arranged together,

characters.

with a proper composition

Each of them have hands hold

varying from one to seven

in front of their bodies to carry

equal symbols.

on their suits, treasures or weapons.

CO D E S A ND V A RIABLE S

The four suits in their elected colors for this card set design.

Composing the card set The suits and figures where

DENARI

redesigned according to this

Yellow, from Gold

historical period and political

CUPPA

positions, without losing

Red, from Wine

their meanings.

SPADE

Colors also were selected

Blue, from Metal

to represent each suit,

BASTONI

reflecting it not only on their

Green, from Nature

design but also on figures which are carrying them.

T H E C A RD S E T

This booklet was composed in Adobe Indesign and Adobe Illustrator CC. Typefaces used are Livory

by Hannes Von Dรถhren and Livius Dietzel (HDV Fonts) and Ciutadella by Eduardo Manso (Emtype Foundry).

Henrique Iamarino henrykfo.ca

This booklet is a part of a project for Computer Design I with Professor Erasmo Chiufo.

Masters in Visual Design at Scuola Politecnica di Design. Milano, Italia, 2016.