TThe Texture Card features embossing on the paper so that it allows users to perceive information by touch.
All information has been converted into embossment, such as black being concave and red being convex.
All production processes are handcrafted, precisely and carefully, by Japanese craftsmanship.
The cards are made with unique techniques to prevent signs from being exposed on the back.
These features allow everyone to play equally, whether or not they can see, whether or not they read braille.
Design Right Registered
German Design Award 2020 "Winner"
Exhibited at "Milan Design Week 2019" in Milan.
Collaborated with : NISSIN Co.,Ltd.
& WACOO Co.,Ltd.
Texture Card
WHY / context
In the virtual society of a table game, the right to win belongs equally to everyone.
Whether the deck of cards, as it exists today, is a design that lives up to that — that was where this began.
No one would doubt that playing cards have remained popular for over a hundred years across the world. On the other hand, they are still an incomplete gaming tool, particularly for blind people.
There are already many playing cards with braille on the market. However, the braille literacy rate in Japan is only around 10%, and in the rest of the world, it is likely even lower.
HOW / application
All signs and numbers have been converted into embossment using letterpress techniques, where black signs are concave and red signs are convex.
Those who see read the shadow the relief casts. Those who do not see trace the form by touch. The same object, read by a different sense.
The Texture Card is made using unique techniques to conceal the signs from the other side.
All production processes are made by hand, precisely and carefully, by Japanese craftsmanship.
WHAT / implementation
What everyone learns is now the same.
What shape a spade is, and what it means. Some learn it by sight, some by tracing it. The road differs; once learned, either side reads it just as immediately.
Play with these cards and the arrangement of the real world does not hold in the virtual society . No one is above. No one is being accommodated.
The "dictionary-style" package was designed so that it can be stored on a bookshelf as a decorative object. The simple and clear design of the spine, "♤♡♢♧", uniquely allows users to distinguish what it is.
