Brief 2 - Research: Chosen Word

The word I was given was 'cards'. The first thing I did was pass a piece of paper around the table, everyone wrote the first thing that came to their mind with the word card. This was zoo useful because it suggested and gave me ideas that I had not previously thought of. Below is the list:

• playing cards
• christmas cards
• poker
• poems and hand written love letters
• Las Vagas
• chips (gambling)
• suits (hearts, aces, etc)
• different papers and weights
• poke'mon
• card games
• play your cards right
• business cards
• credit cards
• record your own message cards
• psychic cards - reading the future

I don't know why but I hadn't even considered credit or business cards which just seem obvious now! Business cards would be a good project because it would relate well to graphic design there is a lot of possible things to research which would benefit me. However I have no real interest in business cards. The one that really stands out and interests me is playing cards. 

I love card games and this would also have a lot of different sections I could research such as the history of cards, why were they invented? why the colours? and why the Jack, Queen and King? Another avenue I can research is different types of games etc...

Jumping the gun but the first idea that comes to mind is that I could create a book about different card games with the difficulty level and such displayed on it. Perhaps instead of a book I could create them on different pieces of card so that each one has a different card game on it. However I think this will feed into the next project more than this one. For this project I will research into cards and everything about them.