The Incomplete Deck is a zine project by Hans Gremmen who, since 2014, has been looking for and picking up abandoned playing cards in the hope of completing a deck of random cards.
Gremmen has two simple rules: firstly, only single cards can be taken and secondly, if more cards from the same deck are available, he takes only the first card he sees and the Jokers (if there are any). So far he has found cards during walks in Venice, Amsterdam, Paris, London, New York, Las Vegas and other places. The Incomplete Deck is a zine dedicated to this fascination, with a brief history of playing card design. It is also a postscript to pages 77 and 147–150 of In Between: An Incomplete Index (2001–2026) Each copy contains a random playing card.
