Quote from: Will W. on December 17, 2014, 04:42:46 PM

Looks great!  One question for you though. Are you going to offer the original Lumberjacks on your kickstarter as well?  Maybe as an add on or in a tier where you get one of each. The only reason I ask is because I missed out on the original and have yet to acquire it but would like to. 

I don't see why not!

Hmm...  A little too self-referential for my tastes.  It's nearly as bad as naming a deck "Playing Card-Themed Playing Cards!"  Ever hear of anyone naming a car "Driver" or naming a pistol "Shooter"?  (Or calling a toilet "Crapper" - wait, people actually do that!)

It's one thing to make a gorgeous deck based on a specific theme.  It's quite another to call it "Bicycle Collectors" and wait for the Bicycle collectors to roll in by the hundreds or thousands...

I love this - the first sentence:

Bicycle® Collectors. 56 Luxury Handcrafted Playing Cards. Limited Edition. Printed by the USPCC.

• Luxury?  It's the same paper used to make Bees and Bicycles!  It's like the term "Corinthian leather" - a term that was made up by Chrysler's ad agency to sell their luxury cards in the mid-1970s, made famous by Cordoba brand spokesman Ricardo Montalban.  In reality, the leather was never anywhere near Corinth - it was purchased from a company in Newark, New Jersey!
• Handcrafted?  The definition of this in the transitive verb form is "To  fashion  or  make  by  hand," implying the lack of a machine-driven process.  So someone is painting in each and every card by hand?  Or running a manual press and creating each uncut sheet a page at a time?  I could use the same term for the manufacturing of automobiles or computer processors - at some point, humans laid hands on those object as well while they were "crafted"...  So, hand-drawn, yes; hand-designed, maybe or maybe not; handcrafted, not a chance.  It implies the deck is completely handmade when only the artwork is.  Considering the amount of tweaking that even hand drawings receive before a deck is press-ready, the term is somewhat deceptive - but I supposed not more so than many ad campaigns.
• Limited Edition?  Duh.  Is that still a selling point any more?  Has any deck on Kickstarter ever been mass-produced in more than one print run?  It's like saying, "Now with AIR, version 2.0!"  It's become meaningless.  The very nature of using Kickstarter to create a deck forces all but a rare few of them to be limited editions, because the amount of funds raised is finite and usually not enough to launch a full-time deck company.
• Printed by the USPCC?  Well, the Bicycle brand is kind of a giveaway...

In short, it looks like a "Corinthian leather" deck.  I'll grant that the court cards look nice and all (though the images on the cards could be a bit larger), but Elite's work was always a bit too baroque for my tastes and it's a turn-off to be "sold to" so forcefully as this.


Forgive me if I seem cranky.  I didn't get enough sleep.

Quote from: Justin O. on December 08, 2014, 06:26:55 PM

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.

Thank you Justin O. for your opinion  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
I tried different options and finally chose the right back; I think it portrays both the Art Nouveau mosaics and our deck's style. Check it out We'll be launching the project on KS this week! 

Specially if they smuggle the decks, in their pants. 

The article states that only 5 sets of silver playing cards are known.  One of the sets was on view at the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam.  Perhaps they are still on display.

SOMEONE'S been wandering the backroads of the Interwebs...

Ouch, something tells me they weren't quite the best of friends.