Redesigning Tichu Card Game

The Tichu Redesign is a personal (fictional) experiment project of Greek Designer Dimitris Chatzelas, where he redesigned the card game Tichu. Dimitris Chatzelas loves typography, logos, branding and Illustration. He believes that good design should be specific in order to be understood and… nothing can be everything without being supported by something.

Tichu (also known as Tai Pan) is a multi-genre card game; primarily a shedding game that includes elements of Bridge, Daihinmin, and Poker played between two teams of two players each. Teams work to accumulate points; the first team to reach a predetermined score (usually 1,000 points) is the winner.
My approach was to redesign not only the whole deck, but make it as a videogame for tablets, smartphones, etc. therefore I designed two stages as an example with a variety of emoticons for players and a responsive – animated scroll down website with basic info and download.

Check out Dimitris Chatzelas Portfolio

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The Pattern

PATTERN1

Symbols and Numbers

SYMBOLS
NUMBERS

The Tichu Cards

BIRD
DOG
DRAGON
GIF1
JACK_CLUB
JACK_EMERALD
JACK_PAGODA
GIF2
JACK_STARS
KING_CLUB
KING_EMERALD
KING_PAGODA
GIF3
KING_STARS
PHOENIX
QUEEN_CLUB
GIF4
QUEEN_EMERALD
QUEEN_PAGODA
QUEEN_STARS

Greece playing cards

Maria Papaefstathiou

VISUAL DESIGNER since 1996 and blogger since 2010. Living in Athens, Greece. She has been focusing her research on poster design and particularly on social poster design and portrait design. Her main poster project is a series of posters celebrating great personalities of traditional and popular culture in Greece and Jamaica. These include actors, singers, musicians, poets etc. This is an ongoing project. “I believe that design is a powerful tool that we designers can use to spark enthusiasm, change mindsets and bring positive actions to our world and our culture”. FOUNDER AND EDITOR OF GRAPHICART-NEWS.COM BLOG. She carefully curates high-quality designs, illustrations, and art, from all over the world that will teach and provoke other designers. Many consider her blog to be an exceptional educational tool. CO-FOUNDER OF THE INTERNATIONAL REGGAE POSTER CONTEST which was launched on December 2011, partnering, the creative activist Michael Thompson aka Freestylee. (www.reggaepostercontest.com)

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