Club 808 "Design-a-Deck" Winner

[pmkane]

Hello all!

I've taken the advice of some posters within the forum and decided to mention my new project here on this thread . . . I am Paul Michael Kane, a designer and photographer. I was humbled earlier this month by earning a 'win' from the Club 808 folks and their "Design-a-Deck" contest. I had been kicking around the idea of doing a deck of cards featuring my photography for a while and when I heard about this contest, I knew it was this that would kick the project into high gear - especially since I found out about it only 3 days before the contest ended! So I whipped this design together using different camera parts in the design concept . . . I am now in the planning stages of finishing this deck for a Kickstarter Campaign. The face of the cards will feature my images (in black and white so there's a consistency to them) and will showcase a new way of card recognition that I think is rather innovative and haven't seen before . . . I plan on taking the rest of June and July to put the deck together (shooting models for the court cards) and then launch the Kickstarter in August . . . Would love feedback on the design and please feel free to follow me on Facebook as I'll be posting updates and 'production vlogs" on there as well . . .

Thanks so much for your time . . .

-pmk

[MrMollusk]

Whoa, neat back. I love the lens and aperture designs. (great theme for a photography deck) Then again, it all depends on what the face cards look like!

[xela]

Remove the website from the back of the cards and you're golden. You can advertise the hell out of yourself on a deck, but here is where it's appropriate to do so:

- Bottom of tuck case
- Ad card
- Jokers/Ace of Spades (no ",com" though)

Also, you do realize people will think this is a deck dedicated to Half-Life/Portal, right? I don't know if you did that on purpose or not. The color scheme is what does it more so than the vector aperture art.

It's really nicely done, though. I can't wait to see the faces like Mollusk said.

[pmkane]

Great suggestion about the URL . . . I hadn't taken the whole video game thing into consideration, but those are my two favorite colors, so I'll be sticking with them - should some interest bleed over from that market, all the better! Thank you all very much for your feedback . . . very excited about this project!!

-pmk