Playing Cards

After a long and stressful week, I played spoons. The purpose of the game is to get a four of a kind with playing cards. I won various of rounds and the last round I won with all four Kings.

I never noticed cards before, but after listening about what design is, I found the cards very fascinating. I'm having fun playing with these 2x4 plastic paper with jacks, queens, kings, shapes, and numbers on it. But what is the real significances of these designs? How did society give each symbol a standard to follow by. The Jacks, Queens, Kings, and Aces are styled very old fashion similar to European rule. The Jack looks sad. The Queens do not look like queens, they are not attractive. The Kings look as if they cannot fight on their own. While the Aces have a goddess who is showing a lot of skin.

I find the designs/patterns these cards have in their outfits interesting. They are detailed and the colors are prominent. The red sticks out the most but the hint of blue and yellow calms down the playing card as a whole. Let’s not forget about the shapes used, clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades. All these shapes have to have a meaning behind it. It gives rank. And when playing cards, everyone wants to win. They won’t be able to win unless they obtain the highest card in number and in shape. This is similar to modern society. You need to have the best (in yourself or in a team) to move on and succeed. This everyday pastime will help one manipulate and analyze moves that are coming and move that have come.

There are different designs of playing cards to cater to different audiences. If we are gambling with cards, why not have better designed ones?I would love the cards would reinvent itself to the current generation giving it a new zing. There is probably a long history of how the card originated and how it has evolved and why stop now? We should evolve it even more and recreate the design.