Yea, I got that completely wrong I was thinking USPCC and had America stuck in my head, so it came out APCC, My BAD.

The Center Art work comes straight of the Ace of Spades. we'r basically going with the more traditional tuck box design where the box resembles one of the main cards, back and front.

As for the Bicycle logo, we feel that if we are going to pay for some one like Bicycle or Legends Playing Cards we may as well use their name as it has industry recondition and brings its own prestige.

Sorry that should have been USPC, thats what happens when you try and get stuff done after midnight. Thanks for the suggestion on the pips, I actual quite like the idea, and as we are going to be making a Orc deck too we can still use what we have made later. I will have  a look at PCC also thanks.

And here are the Jokers and card back. let us know what you think.

We thought we'd give you guys a peek at the progress we have made. Thanks Don for all the great feedback and advice. The Stone background may still change you will see that its not the same in all the cards and we are plying around with the sepia to try and get it just so. We also have to fix the image sizes so they are all the same, again just seeing what works specially with the Aces.   

Hi guys, thanks for all the feed back. We are taking it on board and are having some real "robust" discussions. Readability of the indices not with standing, we though we would show you what the Aces look like in what we believe to be almost the final form. We have a long road to travel yet with all the court cards the jokers and the tuck box still to be done and and would like some feed back on the Art and overall picture.

Its a Club! Not your traditional leaf, I know, but can you see a dwarf beating any one over the head with a clover? Hopefully the suit is still recognizable.

Hi Sarah,

We did think about the Ruby vs Diamond thing before hand, thing is, Diamonds in playing cards have always red (does that mean that they are actually rubies?  )  and we wanted to have a rough chunky look. The pips will be closer to the normal shape. We will think about it some more though.

Thanks!

Hi Cardfool

Thanks for the encouragement, we will be posting new stuff soon. I'm getting similar comments about the font from another forum and from my wife of all people. We wanted the lettering to have the look and feel of runes, how much of a problem would you say it is? We may have to find a compromise between "darkly mysterious" and "real world readable".

Hi every one, this is still very early days for us and we are still figuring it out as we go. The art work is by my very talented friend and partner Aran De Baron. (http://www.arandebaron.com.au) we are hoping to produce a deck of cards that will appeal to the collector and the player and would like to get some feed back early on. Shown first is the Ace of Harts, the patterns around the edges are not quite right and we may be changing them for something a bit more "blocky" and brutish and we need to play with the aspect ratio (center pieces vs border designs)

The other drawing are preliminary sketches of what will hopefully become 2 of the Kings a Queen and the Jester the Ace of Diamonds and what I believe should be part of the card back design (the boar)

Please be brutally honest, we really want to make something awesome and we cannot do it without you guys.

Cheers