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You never fail to amaze me with your observations and detailed reviews, thank you!
here are the aces for both decks 
Go with what you feel is right. You've created an amazing looking deck so far and I think you're choices are spot on.
Nothing but support from me.
Those jokers look fine to me. Use them or switch them as you see fit.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cardlauncher/nouveau-playing-cards (I'm attaching sketches)
Here's an example of the Twitter promo I just posted for these cards:
http://twitter.com/CthulhuWho1/status/580082554381819904
Really like the reworked design on these. I think they both look very nice and are wonderful well rounded decks. I'm a bit more partial to the turquoise edition, I like the additional color on the courts quite a bit. Nothing but good things to say about these, from the price point up very nice!
I really want these decks to succeed this time, so I'll be posting Tweets on Twitter, Facebook and other sites like this one:
http://twitter.com/CthulhuWho1/status/579621718144073728
And I'm curious about how well other card collectors think messages like this will work towards card deck projects; and how often I should post them.
Will Hart
Fullerton, California
ps
Can this topic get updated so the current project and its link and images are at the top instead of the older project links and details?
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Let me support you in this. Several modest words...
http://playingcardcollector.net/2015/03/22/nouveau-playing-cards-by-bona-fide-playing-cards/
Aha... printing with Expert Playing Card Company this time round!
Excellent. I've already put in my pledge for 6 decks.
I think it's great that a nice design is going to be printed using superior quality paper and coating
Thank you for your support HolyJJ!
The bird is indeed the Ellusionist Playing Card Co. logo, used by magic company Ellusionist to sell their decks for the past several months. I guess they felt it was better to remove magic branding from the decks to attract collectors and maybe even card players, though the word "Ellusionist" itself would set off some red flags, I would think. USPC must have included it by accident.
Yes that, sorry. Busy busy day today haha.
To be honest that was in a locked layer in an Illustrator file sent by USPC; I didn't make any changes there cos the girl said not to but I'll ask her about it Happy to back this deck. I have one concern though, the bird logo thing on the tuck looks a whole lot like E's still. Could be a problem, just saying.
sorry Fes, I don't know what you mean...what bird??
Happy to back this deck. I have one concern though, the bird logo thing on the tuck looks a whole lot like E's still. Could be a problem, just saying.
) Bona Fide Playing cards is back with an improved NOUVEAU Bicycle deck, this time on KICKSTARTER Check it out!
If I may point out one little thing I notised. I do apologize if it has been brought up before. The court looks great, I like the first one, especially. But in the middle of the yellowish tint, there is a crisp white line around the figure. To me that line breaks the spell of niceness that the rest of the court evokes. Would it be ok to try to give that line a slightly more yellow tint, like the cards background, maybe?
thank you and it hasn't been brought up before
Great end result. I look forward to backing your project.
This really looks good. I feel you have most excellent chances for the launch - perhaps even hitting goal within the first 48-72 hours!
This will be the back for a special edition I really like the brighter corner dials on 1,2 and 4, but the overall even tone look of the 3rd one, and thing the third option with the higher contract corner dials would looks stellar.
I tried what you said but it didn't look very good. The problem is printing the 3rd option so we're going with a colored version We'll be launching the project on KS this week! Personally I like the first one (top left). It has a better definition and more contrast.
To me, any of those designs would look great. Just be aware of the limitations of the card printing process - check with your printer to be certain they can print at that resolution without losing any of the detail. You might also want to choose a brighter color for the line work to give it a little better contrast, at least in some areas, for better visibility.
Consider what the back design would look like for a SECOND deck with the same faces.
I like three of the four. The one I don't care for is the one that will probably be the biggest pain to print. Lower left. The other three look much better in my opinion. Great stuff.
The second one.
Love the new back. Keep trying to find the start and the end and whats connected. I love how it looks and you cant tell.
New back, opinions please!I can certainly see how much work went into this. But for my tastes, it doesn't read Art Nouveau. It reads geometric, now in a more stained-glass style.
I started to write a reply that talked about the stylized organic forms of Art Nouveau, building (occasionally) off of a single background circle, with offshoots of hyperbolas and parabolas, and the distinctive whiplash ... but then I realized you fully understand Art Nouveau--your courts have captured that magic wonderfully.
My problem is that the fronts and the backs just don't go together--they come across as very different styles.
I'll think about what you said, maybe I can come up with something Comparing this to the previous back, I really like this more as well. Like Rose mentioned, the flow is definitely more eye-pleasing now.
As to how much of an Art Nouveau back this is i really can't comment. I know it but am not an expert on it. If you stand by your ground, maybe you can show us some processes during your KS project so others can understand how or where your back derived from. But this is definitely better than the previous one.
Looks excellent - a vast improvement.
As some of the others, I'm not an Art Nouveau expert, but I don't have any issue with this back and those faces.
The new back looks good, I thought the old back looked good. So it's all good in my opinion.
I agree with @GBAllison regarding back's style, but somehow it doesn't cause me any discomfort. I guess this is all my subjective taste
I'm glad you like it
