About the OH Cards Institute

The purpose of the OH Cards Institute (OHCI) is to provide a home for ideas and methods about the OH genre.

The popularity of the OH Cards genre has grown organically from a small seed into a large community spanning many countries, cultures, languages, and professions.

Over decades of creating and distributing OH, the desire has developed to be of service to the OH community by sharing the growing body of information about ways the cards are used.

Our aim is to connect you with resources and colleagues so you can learn what others are doing with the cards in professional environments, and so you can make mutually beneficial connections with other OH Card users. By doing so, we further aim to clarify and explore the phenomenon of metaphoric cards of association.

The OH Cards Institute is non-profit. We collect, assess, organize, and disseminate resources. Our focus is on quality and scope.

New material appears in the Updates and is automatically catalogued within the Methods, Studies, and Context areas. A single update may relate to multiple topics and so be catalogued in multiple locations within the website. You can subscribe to receive new updates as they’re posted.

Methods – organizes information about OH based on areas of use – from therapy to creativity, and including resources providing an Introduction to the OH Cards.

Studies – focuses on formats, from academic journals to popular press, books, and videos.

Context – provides a view of OH Cards in their surroundings, ranging through historical, artistic, personal, and cultural contexts.