Day 5: Illustrating a Card Game with Doris Freigofas
September 6, 2013
Jass is very famous in Switzerland and it is played by old and young. Like dice or game boards, playing cards can be illustrated just like a “portable gallery”.
In the workshop we created a complete Jass card game together. The participants worked in groups of two using papercutting and a fixed selection of colors. Each group developed a series of nine playing cards consisting of the numbers 6-9, Banner, Under, Ober and Ass. The goal was to find individual visual interpretations of the cards, bearing in mind that they still need to be usable for playing Jass.
