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Design & Development / Divide of a Nation
« on: January 01, 2017, 12:47:05 PM »
I'm finalizing the Kickstarter project this weekend for my next deck, Divide of a Nation. Here's a preview link.... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/589085899/57630463?token=288cf986
Check it out and let me know of any mistakes or issues?

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Playing Card Plethora / Rise of a Nation
« on: March 20, 2016, 05:24:31 PM »
Check out my new project on Kickstarter... http://kck.st/1VqXT5v
Rise of a Nation is my first Kickstarter project in over a year.

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Design & Development / Re: Redesigned SWARM deck in the works
« on: August 03, 2015, 08:27:57 AM »
Feel free to contact me anytime. If you want you can e-mail me at rjtomlinson@tomlinsoncards.com

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Design & Development / Re: Redesigned SWARM deck in the works
« on: August 01, 2015, 06:33:12 AM »
Yes, I'll update the fade effect and lower the darkness of the blue. I think that will help too. Yes, I've gotten samples from them and also had a few decks printed in the last couple months. The first deck I printed with them was Gettysburg. The finish and handling were okay but not as good as I wanted. The cellophane was also loose. So, I gave them the feedback from my backers and with the next deck they did for me they made adjustments.The next deck, which was a deck of history cards based on my local community of Bradford County, turned out amazing. The cellophane was nice and tight. It was identical to what USPCC looks like. The finish and handling was nearly perfect. The only negative feedback I heard was they were slightly stiff. They're slippery but not as much as USPCC (which for me is a good thing because I think USPCC is a little too sliippery).

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Design & Development / Re: Redesigned SWARM deck in the works
« on: July 31, 2015, 10:04:19 AM »
I wish I knew someone that could handle cards and make a video. But I did get some video clips form the factory... so I'll get those posted this morning on the page.

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Design & Development / Re: Redesigned SWARM deck in the works
« on: July 31, 2015, 02:37:05 AM »
Please feel free to leave comments and/or suggestions on the KS project page. WJ Printing is looking for feedback

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Design & Development / Re: Redesigned SWARM deck in the works
« on: July 31, 2015, 12:46:06 AM »
Yeah... I'll probably add a few more tiers before launching. They use 310gsm German black core paper. The finish is something we've been working on. With my Gettysburg deck, the handling was good but it could've been better. With my Bradford county deck they made a few adjustments and got the finish perfect. They fan and shuffle really good. USPCC and EPCC still is slightly better but in my opinion USPCC can be too slippery.

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Design & Development / Re: Redesigned SWARM deck in the works
« on: July 30, 2015, 07:47:35 PM »
Here's a preview link for the project. It's not all the way done... but I wanted to get some feedback.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2060803491/1845598135?token=1de02fa0

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Design & Development / Re: Redesigned SWARM deck in the works
« on: July 27, 2015, 06:46:32 PM »
Here's the Queen of Spades. As of right now, I'm thinking of modified hairdos for the Queens.... unless people object.

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Design & Development / Re: Redesigned SWARM deck in the works
« on: July 25, 2015, 06:51:04 PM »
Here's the updated Jack with his flower back. Also here's a work in progress view of the Jack of Clubs.

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Design & Development / Re: Redesigned SWARM deck in the works
« on: July 24, 2015, 11:06:58 PM »
So should I add the flower back?

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Design & Development / Re: Redesigned SWARM deck in the works
« on: July 24, 2015, 08:11:19 PM »
3 out of 4 updated Jacks... keeping with standard look with some modifications. For example, I didn't think the Jack of Diamond needed a flower poking out of his chest for no apparent reason so I got rid of it.
With this project I'm not reinventing the wheel.. I'm just giving it a good cleaning and pumping it up with some fresh air.

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Design & Development / Re: Redesigned SWARM deck in the works
« on: July 20, 2015, 04:43:36 PM »
Here's all the updated Kings for the Swarm deck. I still need to make a few adjustments with the pips but overall I'm happy with the results.

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Design & Development / Re: Redesigned SWARM deck in the works
« on: July 19, 2015, 01:04:04 AM »
I see. I learn something new everyday.
By no means was I planing on trying to trademark. I meant to freely give my AI files... which would be unheard of. What vector files that are out there are of the rough line images like shown on the left side of the example above.

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Design & Development / Re: Redesigned SWARM deck in the works
« on: July 18, 2015, 09:19:57 PM »
No plans for security ink. I just prefer darker colors. But these are all subject to change. I'm half tempted to make this set of courts available within the creative commons. I'm tired of seeing Frankenstein versions of courts being used by everyone and their brother. I personally wouldn't mind giving these to any who would find good use for them.

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Design & Development / Re: Redesigned SWARM deck in the works
« on: July 18, 2015, 07:23:38 PM »
Now on to the court cards. Of course, in the looks department you won't see much difference... but this was redone 100%. If you look close enough you'll see a few changes but mainly a cleaned up version of the Kind of Diamonds. The one on the left is what they're currently using and the one on the right is the updated one. Oh, yeah... I forgot to add his hand. That was a mistake. He'll have it back soon enough.

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Design & Development / Re: Redesigned SWARM deck in the works
« on: July 17, 2015, 11:44:17 PM »
Here's my first attempt at faded edges. It was harder then I thought since Illustrator doesn't have a square gradient. I'll probably try to get it to look better down the road.

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Design & Development / Re: Redesigned SWARM deck in the works
« on: July 17, 2015, 09:46:41 PM »
Yes, that does look nice. I'll give it a try and see what I can come up with.

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Design & Development / Re: Redesigned SWARM deck in the works
« on: July 17, 2015, 04:10:12 PM »
Here's an updated version of the blue deck. I felt the deck needed something. The printing company suggest honeycomb in the middle but I couldn't think of a good way to add it. So, for now I put pinstripes on there to kill off some of the white space. I also put a white border around the back design. They are working on their registration (centering) but they're not 100% where they need to be. They just hired a new print manager, Mr. Dong, ( ;D)  they hope will get them to near perfect registration.

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Design & Development / Re: Redesigned SWARM deck in the works
« on: July 17, 2015, 09:16:53 AM »
Here's what I came up with so far. Of course this isn't set in stone yet so it may change many times.

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Design & Development / Re: Redesigned SWARM deck in the works
« on: July 16, 2015, 04:20:15 PM »
Here's what their current deck looks like...

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Design & Development / Redesigned SWARM deck in the works
« on: July 16, 2015, 04:18:25 PM »
It was pointed out to me that the printer I used for Gettysburg and the Bradford County History deck had a staple deck that was 100% just like the Bee deck (except for the name of course). I brought this to their attention and the were very ashamed of this fact. They asked me if I would be interested in redesigning their staple deck to set it apart from Bee but at the same time keep a classic look. For the design I wanted to have the classic Red/Gold and Blue/Gold options like you see with Aristocrat Playing Cards, Bee Playing Cards, MPC Playing Cards and countless other staple decks. I also wanted to create a honeycomb shape in the middle that would interlock with other decks placed side by side. Here's what I came up with....

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Playing Card Plethora / Pompeii Playing Cards (Black Diamond Brand)
« on: July 03, 2015, 02:15:34 AM »
Here's a preview link for Pompeii. It will be launching at 4pm est time today (July 3rd).
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2060803491/1498332812?token=a9d3b41e

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Heretic Playing Cards (KS)
« on: February 27, 2015, 05:51:39 AM »
I agree... Tuck looks cool but doesn't function as good as it looks.

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Leonardo Art Playing Cards
« on: February 05, 2015, 02:31:55 PM »
They may have a higher minimum order but their prices really aren't too bad. In fact, the prices get really nice once you hit high quantities like 10,000. If I was you, I would print with USPCC. I would also go with 10,000 bringing the price per deck down. Once you sell 2,000 or 3,000 decks on KS then you still have 7,000 to sell to art museum gift shops. I know they (USPCC) just increased their prices but it should still be less then $2 per deck when you get to the high quantities.

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