Segur que alguna vegada se us ha passat pel cap poder jugar amb una baralla de cartes CMYK. Doncs bé, igual teniu davant el moment ideal per poder-ho fer. Hundred Million ha posat a Kikstarter un projecte genial d’una baralla de cartes espanyola a la que els mítics pals son substituits pels colors de la quadricromia.
El dia 21 de febrer acabarà la posibilitat de fer realitat aquest projecte. Podeu col·laborar amb donacions que van d’£1 fins £36. Si voleu poder aconseguir un joc complert heu de fer una aportació de £9. Us animeu?
Brilliantly stripping away all the heritage and history of good playing card design, we’ve removed everything we could.
Back in 2012 when we formed Hundred Million, we produced a small run of Graphic Design-based Playing Cards based on the CMYK print technique. Initially they were a stunt to try and get our name into some graphic design press – and splashed in glorious full-colour across packaging blogs. This worked, and we moved onto other projects and ‘proper’ runs of products for retail…
We never really got over our first project though! His memory lives on and we often get emails about our graphic design gambling work. So we’d like to rouse the Kickstarter collective once again and hope we can get enough support from designers and people-who-know-designers to be able to fund a full production run of our first project! Even if it is 2 years later…
CMYK Playing Cards were born from the happy realisation in our studio that the maths fits! A traditional deck of playing cards consists of 4 suits with 10 cards (not including face cards). All we had to do was switch the suits for colours of ink used in printed media (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) and swap the numbers on each card for a percentage of ink on the surface. The cards are just as useful as traditional printed styles, AND perhaps most importantly, all niche and only understood by people who are in our little design world. We’ve tried explaining the cards to people outside the industry and were met with almost perfect poker face expressions. Our favourite kinds of products are the weird little niche things that only certain demographics (pun) will understand, and while that might not make brilliant business sense; it does seem to attract some of the most sincere people we have met.
We combined the opacities of ink with a strict anti-design rule. The only decoration would be made from the kinds of crop marks and registration bleeds usually never seen in the post-production world, and the various shapes, patterns and rules that never make it into a finished piece of printed media where given centre stage.
Made from the finest German black-core paper, with a genuine playing card linen finish, the cards are poker spec at 63 x 88m and include a uniform back face design and matte laminated card tuck box.
We have some wonderful stretch goals in mind to push this project beyond just being another playing card goal, and we believe the people who understand this project will really enjoy owning such a design-led product.
Més info a CMYK Playing Cards
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