IAMARINO, HENRIQUE SCUOLA POLITECNICA DI DESIGN
ANCIENT BRISCOLA A historical approach to Neapolitan playing cards.
Design concept
IV
How to play?
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Structure Codes and variables The card set
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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.