The Gist of Bid Whist
“The Ghist of Bid Whist” was a book cover commissioned to us. The book was a success in the card game community, boosting the history of the beloved game we know today “Bid Whist”.
How it started…
“The Gist of Bid Whist” was one of our more memorable projects we’ve had the luxury of working on. Lamont Jones (author of book) reached out in interest of creating visual assets for Clyde Hill Publishing. He gave the first couple of chapters that were intriguing, particularly the chapter dedicated to the people responsible for inception of Bid Whist: Pullman Porters
The mission statement for the book was to platform Bid Whist not only on its practice, but its history as well. Furthering the understanding Bid Whist and its cultural significance to Black America.
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We were originally interested in making the “Pullman Porters” the central theme to the book design, giving credit to a black underclass once upon a time ago.
The idea was unfortunately turned down, however the company and author was interested in the Pullman Porters being integrated in some way as a motif. We decided to use them to be apart of a card design; Integrating their likeness into a card itself.
