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MrMollusk · « **on:** March 16, 2014, 09:04:07 PM »

From the Kickstarter update:

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So onward into April, "Pagan" and very soon...the next Uusi deck, "Hotcakes". "Hotcakes"will be the fifth deck in our six deck series and will make its debut on Kickstarter this April. Should you want to take a sneak peak at it you can visit the awesome cardistry forum that is United Cardist, on Thursday of this coming week, March 20th, (which also happens to be the first day of spring), and click on this link http://unitedcardists.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4482 for a first look.

Looks like the preview will be up on UC. Is anyone else as hyped as I am?

ADMIN UPDATE: project is live - "HOTCAKES" Limited Edtion Playing Cards KS link

Card Player · « **Reply #1 on:** March 16, 2014, 10:55:36 PM »

Quote from: MrMollusk on March 16, 2014, 09:04:07 PM

From the Kickstarter update:

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So onward into April, "Pagan" and very soon...the next Uusi deck, "Hotcakes". "Hotcakes"will be the fifth deck in our six deck series and will make its debut on Kickstarter this April. Should you want to take a sneak peak at it you can visit the awesome cardistry forum that is United Cardist, on Thursday of this coming week, March 20th, (which also happens to be the first day of spring), and click on this link http://unitedcardists.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4482 for a first look.

Looks like the preview will be up on UC. Is anyone else as hyped as I am?

UC getting an Uusi exclusive first look?! How long will that last, 5 minutes?

PurpleIce · « **Reply #2 on:** March 16, 2014, 11:32:44 PM »

Hotcakes? Trying to imply they will be selling like hotcakes?

I'm hungry already...

Anthony · « **Reply #3 on:** March 20, 2014, 02:33:45 PM »

A sneak peak that was released on UC.

"The look is a mix of 17th century full figure courts meets Emilio Pucci-like patterns, Andy Warhol's Pop Art, neon colors and Charles Pry's one off art decks."

With any designer, I love when they are able to go in a completely different direction than their previous project, Kudos!

Paul Carpenter · « **Reply #4 on:** March 20, 2014, 02:50:44 PM »

Let's all be immature now and get it over with. Boobies. There, now we can talk art.

Great style as always from Uusi, they certainly know how to find amazing themes and run with it. One way courts works well and shows a little bit of adventurousness there. Hopefully USPCC doesn't get their panties in a twist over the content. From what I recall it's always a little bit of an unknown when bringing anything risqué their way.

Don Boyer · « **Reply #5 on:** March 20, 2014, 04:13:42 PM »

USPC has covered artistic decks with tastefully-presented nudity before - there's no reason why they'd object. (And if they do, there's always EPCC!)

This deck will be on Kickstarter next month!

EDIT: Tony, I took the liberty of exchanging your image for a higher-resolution version I received, courtesy of Linnea at Uusi! Click on it, it's BIG. Click again, it's HUGE!!

The message that was posted to UC from Linnea:

Hi Everyone!

Just wanted to give you a sneak "peep" at Hotcakes! And by the thread here it looks like you guys already sniffed out the theme, which is basically a send-up on a "nudie" deck. Aside from the obvious "inspiration" and without giving too much away this early, we can tell you the medium this time around was pen, ink and markers as we wanted the artwork to be loose & playful. The look is a mix of 17th-century full-figure courts with Emilio Pucci-like patterns, Andy Warhol's Pop Art, neon colors and Charles Pry's "one-off" art decks. As always, we kept as many of the playable aspects in the design, though this one is the most art-oriented deck of the series so far. We just wanted to have a little fun and whimsy this time around and hope you do, too! Look for the next Hotcakes reveal on our Facebook page in the weeks ahead

uusikissa1 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 20, 2014, 04:56:48 PM »

Quote from: Sparkz on March 20, 2014, 02:33:45 PM

A sneak peak that was released on UC.

"The look is a mix of 17th century full figure courts meets Emilio Pucci-like patterns, Andy Warhol's Pop Art, neon colors and Charles Pry's one off art decks."

With any designer, I love when they are able to go in a completely different direction than their previous project, Kudos!

Thanks for posting this Sparkz! But you got the name of the deck wrong, it's "Hotcakes" not Cupcakes...

uusikissa1 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 20, 2014, 05:01:51 PM »

Quote from: Don Boyer on March 20, 2014, 04:13:42 PM

USPC has covered artistic decks with tastefully-presented nudity before - there's no reason why they'd object. (And if they do, there's always EPCC!)

This deck will be on Kickstarter next month!

EDIT: Tony, I took the liberty of exchanging your image for a higher-resolution version I received, courtesy of Linnea at Uusi! Click on it, it's BIG. Click again, it's HUGE!!

The message that was posted to UC from Linnea:

Hi Everyone!

Just wanted to give you a sneak "peep" at Hotcakes! And by the thread here it looks like you guys already sniffed out the theme, which is basically a send-up on a "nudie" deck. Aside from the obvious "inspiration" and without giving too much away this early, we can tell you the medium this time around was pen, ink and markers as we wanted the artwork to be loose & playful. The look is a mix of 17th-century full-figure courts with Emilio Pucci-like patterns, Andy Warhol's Pop Art, neon colors and Charles Pry's "one-off" art decks. As always, we kept as many of the playable aspects in the design, though this one is the most art-oriented deck of the series so far. We just wanted to have a little fun and whimsy this time around and hope you do, too! Look for the next Hotcakes reveal on our Facebook page in the weeks ahead

Thanks for switching that image Don!!!

badpete69 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 20, 2014, 05:07:53 PM »

Was waiting to see who would catch it hehehehe. Like Don does I have immortalize it also

Anthony · « **Reply #9 on:** March 20, 2014, 05:21:24 PM »

My bad

Appologies all around, the design got me overly excited......

badpete69 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 20, 2014, 05:41:18 PM »

No apologies necessary amongst friends right? It is all good fun and boobies

Mike Ratledge · « **Reply #11 on:** March 20, 2014, 07:01:48 PM »

Looks awfully good to me, frankly. I was aware of what was coming but sworn to secrecy, so I just let everybody keep guessing. We had one come awfully close yesterday: Lorenzo Gaggiotti of "Requiem" fame who's working on his "Heretic" deck that I will be helping with around the first of May. Unlike many KS projects, he won't even think about opening another campaign unless he has the first one fulfilled to all of his backers, first. Uusi has a habit of being early (good Lord!) with their delivery estimates, which these days is quite refreshing!

MrMollusk · « **Reply #12 on:** March 22, 2014, 09:39:45 PM »

HAHAHAHA! Oh, jeez.

I love how you guys are covering such a huge range of styles! It's awesome to see a deck designer than can completely switch tracks from one deck to the next.

The back design's going to be interesting

Sher143 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 22, 2014, 10:05:22 PM »

Quote from: MrMollusk on March 22, 2014, 09:39:45 PM

I love how you guys are covering such a huge range of styles! It's awesome to see a deck designer than can completely switch tracks from one deck to the next.

The back design's going to be interesting

Yeah, since they're doing a six deck series and each usually has two variations, I'll end up with a brick by the end, and I love how I or anyone else can look at the decks and it'll seem like they've come from various artists but are actually just from one artist team. It'll showcase how good they are of executing really wonderful artwork over a range of different styles and medium.

BiggerDee · « **Reply #14 on:** April 22, 2014, 10:12:47 AM »

4/26 at 10AM EST...

D. Dorn · « **Reply #15 on:** April 22, 2014, 10:25:41 AM »

Looks like this one will be a lot of fun!

tyl3r · « **Reply #16 on:** April 22, 2014, 10:46:30 AM »

Uusi = automatic buy for me. Can't wait to see more of these as well as the tuckboxes

Anthony · « **Reply #17 on:** April 22, 2014, 11:35:18 AM »

Rather than start a new thread..........

http://www.kardify.com/2014/04/designers-uusis-creative-process.html

Enjoy!

BiggerDee · « **Reply #18 on:** April 22, 2014, 11:48:22 AM »

Personally, I'm going to have to pass on this one. Just doesn't strike me as appealing at all. Too cartoonish for my tastes.

I'm sure that there will be thousands of other buyers to take my place though! :-)

bamabenz · « **Reply #19 on:** April 22, 2014, 12:33:17 PM »

I'm betting that they raise more money that any of the previous projects -- by a lot.
They have a loyal contingent of backers.
The artwork is beautiful.
This looks like an outstanding deck to show off your cardistry.
And its risqué.
I'm betting it raises over $100K.

If it was branded "Bicycle" it would raise a lot more -- but I'm not suggesting that they do it!

BiggerDee · « **Reply #20 on:** April 22, 2014, 01:06:39 PM »

I agree, these will definitely be very popular.

Don Boyer · « **Reply #21 on:** April 22, 2014, 11:22:20 PM »

Quote from: Sparkz on April 22, 2014, 11:35:18 AM

Rather than start a new thread..........

http://www.kardify.com/2014/04/designers-uusis-creative-process.html

Enjoy!

Um, that doesn't lead to a Discourse topic...

...but there is already a topic for this deck and I'm merging them now!

EDIT: actually, this WAS the THIRD topic on the same deck! They're all merged here.

Quote from: bamabenz on April 22, 2014, 12:33:17 PM

I'm betting that they raise more money that any of the previous projects -- by a lot.
They have a loyal contingent of backers.
The artwork is beautiful.
This looks like an outstanding deck to show off your cardistry.
And its risqué.
I'm betting it raises over $100K.

If it was branded "Bicycle" it would raise a lot more -- but I'm not suggesting that they do it!

I agree on all points but the last one. Among the collector community, I think we're finally starting to see some backlash building, the result of USPC allowing almost any deck, from fine art by a true artiste to broken Crayolas on construction paper, to have the Bicycle brand on it. Even Bicycle-only collectors are getting fed up, not to mention overwhelmed with the sheer output. I'd bet that USPC would make a Bicycle-branded performance art deck, if they could only figure out how to capture performance art on pasteboard...

JacksonRobinson · « **Reply #22 on:** April 23, 2014, 08:11:39 AM »

For me it was going to be really tough to follow up Pagen, as Pagen was awesome and really captivated me. Pagen has been my favorite of Uusi's decks. This deck will be very popular and I think it hits it's mark perfectly, unfortunately this is one least favorites Uusi has come out with.

Don Boyer · « **Reply #23 on:** April 23, 2014, 08:16:09 AM »

Quote from: JacksonRobinson on April 23, 2014, 08:11:39 AM

For me it was going to be really tough to follow up Pagen, as Pagen was awesome and really captivated me. Pagen has been my favorite of Uusi's decks. This deck will be very popular and I think it hits it's mark perfectly, unfortunately this is one least favorites Uusi has come out with.

What makes you say that? To me, this is their most playful and entertaining design to date!

CordedTires · « **Reply #24 on:** April 23, 2014, 09:30:13 AM »

For me - I will certainly buy and enjoy.

But I'm with Jackson....I like serious better. Pagan was really serious and evocative. This is kind of silly - in a good way, and silly is good sometimes, it's just not my favorite thing. (Except for British silliness.)