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2020 Diamond Awards - Nominee Topics / Re: AOTY: Giovanni Meroni (Thirdway Industries)
« on: August 28, 2020, 01:02:40 PM »
Hello all, thank you for the nominee, I am honoured!

For a lot of pics of the decks, probably the best way is check my website gallery, there are a lot of hi-res ones
https://www.thirdwayindustries.com/product-category/modern-idols/
https://www.thirdwayindustries.com/product-category/order/
https://www.thirdwayindustries.com/product/exquisite-fortuna/

Some quick insights

- Exquisite Fortuna was an experimental deck I made with EPCC - we (I and Bill Kalush, EPCC owner) decided to make it purposely difficult to make, with 3 hot foils on card backs.
e Goddess of Luck, Fortuna. I try to impress her being bold, but she's a difficult lady. This deck was actually designed in 2017, so it took some time to be achieved perfectly.

- Order is inspired by propaganda posters of WW2, Orwell's 1984, Animal Farm and other Dystopian novels. It's a deck with an hidden and complex story, set in a fictional World dominated by a evil and powerful Unique Party called "Order". The decks are "Imperium", the deck for the common men and women that live under the Order's rule, "Electus" the limited edition for the Upper Party members (forbidden to everyone else) and Revolutio, that should be the deck of the rebels, but...
The main theme of the deck is freedom (which is a recurrent theme on my decks), against any form of totalitarianism.

- I got the idea of Modern Idols from a TV show, American Gods. I loved the idea of the "New Gods" that replaced the old ones - it was supposed to be a quick and fun series, but I had so much fun that I made 4 decks :-)
Modern Idols is crazy and fun, and include all the most popular "Modern Idols" we worship nowadays: Money, Work, Fitness, but also Love and Dreams.
The decks are called "Fear" and "Hope", that are, in my opinion, the two supreme forces that motivate men and women.

The limited editions Endless Hope and Extreme fear have an experimental tuckbox made by paper who look alike Fabric and holographic foil.

Feel free to ask me anything on these, will do my best to answers your questions :)

Thank you again for the nomination!

Gio


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2019 Diamond Awards - Nominee Topics / Re: Deck of the Year 2019 Nominee: Monolith
« on: August 17, 2019, 05:53:47 AM »
Thanks for nominating Monolith!  :D

I made this to be one of the craziest decks ever made, with holofoil on both sides and also holographic gilding (Gold Monolith).

A lot of pics of the decks can be found on the product pages > https://www.thirdwayindustries.com/product-category/monolith/

If you want to know more on the backstory, here is it

Part 1 - The beginning: The Universe

"At the beginning, there was just void. Infinite space, absolute cold and a timeless eternity."

The Gods of Void were there since forever. Everything was a plain, cold, dark nothing. They were powerful, but they felt something was missing.

"We created the materia out of nowhere. We made many floating spheres. Solid, liquid, gas."

The Gods of Materia created the Planets, and spreaded them into the Void. However, everything was immobile and chaotic.

"We generated energy. Heat, light and gravity."

The Gods of Energy lit the newborn Universe with Stars.

The God of Gravity created the rules for everything.

The Universe was born.

Part 2 - The creation of Life

The Gods were happy with the Universe, but it felt empty, so they asked the God of Flora to made the first attempt to create Life.

Life was complicated and frail. It needed a cooperation of all the Gods to work. No one had to prevail: otherwise it would have been to hot, too cold, too wet or too dry.

They succeeded to agree just few times. But when they did, the result was a miracle even for them.

The first living being they created was a beautiful Apple Tree.

The Goddess of Fauna was impressed by the work of her brother. But she wanted to do even a bigger miracle: a living being with a Soul.

The effort to create Souls was huge: it required even more cooperation than the Apple Tree.

It was an exausting task for all of them, but Goddess of Fauna was able to generate few, precious species they called "Firstborns". They were spreaded on Planets to populate them.

The God of Intellect was inspired and amazed by the work of his siblings. However, he was not satisfied.

He took few creatures made by his sister, and touched their forehead with a drop of his divine blood.

They were infused with a shard of intelligence - and the divine nature of the blood gave them free will.

Part 3 - Mortals and Resets

The intelligent newborns wanted more and more. And soon, they turned against their creators.

The Gods were not worried: the creatures were unable to damage them.

However, the revolt disappointed them a lot, especially when they destroyed their precious Apple Tree.

The God of Eternity, especially, was furious: he impressed a Death Mark on all the creatures, making them all Mortals.

In response, Mortals declared war to Gods. However, when they saw that kill their Creators was an impossible task, they started to destroy each other and their Planets.

The Gods tried to educate mortals several times.

Hoping the Mortals would learn from their errors, the Gods agreed to reset the planets to start from a clean slate.

The first reset was made by Goddess of Absolute Zero. She sent an Ice Age, exterminating almost all the creatures. The survivors had the task to repopulate the planet.

However, the cycle repeated itself over and over. At a certain moment of their evolution, Mortals turned against the Gods and tried to destroy everything, even themselves.

Other Gods resetted the Planets, hoping to educate mortals: The Goddess of Heat sent a rain of fire. The God of Solid a Meteor, and the Liquid Goddess a huge flood.

But everything was useless, the mortals seemed unable to learn.

One day, the Gods decided to leave.

Part 4 - The Monoliths

"Before leave forever, we taught everything to our sons. We know your kind would forgot, so we left something as our legacy. This will help you remember: your origin, your future. Maybe the whole universe."

The Gods decided to forge some Monoliths as their legacy to mortals. They placed them around the Galaxies, near to intelligent species that can understand them.

Thousands of years passed. The mortals remember just a little of the Ancient Gods.

They gave them many different names. They inspired several legends and stories. Almost everything was forgotten.

Then, the ancient Monoliths were found.

Will the mortals understand the Gods message? Will they remember?


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Playing Card Plethora / Delirium - The Lost Decks - on Kickstarter 1-12-2018
« on: January 14, 2018, 05:11:45 PM »
Hello guys!

I wanted to post my latest Kickstarter, Delirium: The Lost Decks - some of you might remember the first version, Delirium Prism, funded in 2014.

> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thirdwayind/delirium-the-lost-decks

I hope you'll like it =)

Cheers

Giovanni

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Playing Card Plethora / Thirdway Industries - Lunatica, now live on Kickstarter
« on: September 22, 2017, 09:17:35 AM »
Hello Guys!

I wanted to share with you Lunatica, my new Kickstarter campaign

>> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thirdwayind/lunatica-playing-cards

 :D

Gio

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Thirdway Industries's Eva - on Kickstarter from 12 may
« on: May 23, 2017, 11:44:51 AM »
@Fess - Thank you :-)

Guys, Eva is going very well and those are the last days to pledge - after Kickstarter, no backerkit and no preorder :) get it while you can! > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thirdwayind/eva-playing-cards

Thank you!  :D

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Thirdway Industries's Eva - on Kickstarter from 12 may
« on: May 12, 2017, 09:18:26 AM »
We're live  :D

>> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thirdwayind/eva-playing-cards

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Playing Card Plethora / Thirdway Industries's Eva - on Kickstarter from 12 may
« on: May 08, 2017, 11:51:29 AM »
Hello guys!

I wanted share with you the preview of my latest project, Eva.
I will launchit on Kickstarter friday 12 of May // 15 CEST (Milan) // 9 EDT (New York) // 13 GMT
A lot of early birds and ... probably the sexiest queen I did so far  ;D

Here is the launch micro site > http://www.thirdway.it/eva/eva.html

If you want to recieve a notification a minute after the launch, join the newsletter > http://evildeck.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8dd7b2c8eb21cfe70ea0b0975&id=9b3c3591a2 or follow Thirdway Industries on kickstarter > https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/follow-creators-find-projects

I hope you'll like it :)



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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Sins - Thirdway
« on: February 20, 2017, 11:59:39 AM »
Thank you for posting  :D

This article is fun ;)

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Sins - Thirdway
« on: February 17, 2017, 05:44:12 PM »
Thank you for posting, Andrea!

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Sins - Thirdway
« on: February 02, 2017, 06:24:10 PM »
Thank you for the update  :D

Hope you like the article!

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Sins - Thirdway
« on: January 30, 2017, 12:09:16 PM »
Thank you for posting and thank you for the kinds words :-)

Hopefully, SINS won't be my only deck this year ;)

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Playing Card Plethora / Pantheon from Thirdway Industries - Live from Today :)
« on: October 12, 2016, 05:00:08 PM »
Hello there!

My new project, Pantheon, is live!

>> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thirdwayind/pantheon-playing-cards

Hope you'll like it :)

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Dedalo from Thirdway Industries - Soon.
« on: June 29, 2016, 03:02:34 PM »
Hello there!

I just unlocked an Oracle extra card as a gift for all the backers who have 3 decks or more  :D

Check the details on my last update > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thirdwayind/dedalo-playing-cards/posts/1615684

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Dedalo from Thirdway Industries - Soon.
« on: June 21, 2016, 06:09:39 PM »
We are overfunded and I just unlocked a new coin :-)

Take a look > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thirdwayind/dedalo-playing-cards

If you are interested, there are also some limited rewards available!

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Dedalo from Thirdway Industries - Soon.
« on: June 12, 2016, 06:21:39 AM »
Quote from: Justin O. on June 10, 2016, 12:21:23 PM
In for two of each and already trying to figure out who I need to rob in order to afford Pandora's box. Your decks keep getting more and more beautiful by the project.

Thank for the great support and the kind words, Justin!  :D

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Dedalo from Thirdway Industries - Soon.
« on: June 10, 2016, 10:22:49 AM »
We're live  :D :D :D :D

>> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thirdwayind/dedalo-playing-cards/

almost 50% funded

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Dedalo from Thirdway Industries - Soon.
« on: May 26, 2016, 06:06:23 PM »
@Fes - Thank you! Always happy to have you aboard :-)

By the way, Kardify revealed the last deck, the limited Dedalo Apeiron >
http://www.kardify.com/2016/05/exclusive-first-look-dedalo-playing_26.html

Take a look ;-)

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Dedalo from Thirdway Industries - Soon.
« on: May 18, 2016, 09:54:38 AM »
An article on Dedalo Omega, the second deck of Dedalo Series > http://www.kardify.com/2016/05/exclusive-first-look-dedalo-playing_18.html

:)

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Playing Card Plethora / Dedalo from Thirdway Industries - Soon.
« on: April 17, 2016, 04:28:01 PM »
Meet Dedalo > http://www.thirdway.it/dedalo/dedalo.html

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Omnia: The Golden Age
« on: March 23, 2016, 05:38:06 AM »
Phyisical proofs arrived!!!

Check the pictures and a short video on the last update > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thirdwayind/omnia-the-golden-age-poker-playing-cards/posts/1526420

 :D

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Deck Reviews! / Re: [VID] OMNIA OSCURA by Giovanni Meroni (Kickstarter)
« on: February 16, 2016, 07:25:53 PM »
Awesome review  :D

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Omnia: The Golden Age
« on: February 04, 2016, 06:02:48 AM »
Hello guys! Just a little last call - The campaign will end in 26 hours.

No backerkit, no preorder available for Omnia Magnifica.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thirdwayind/omnia-the-golden-age-poker-playing-cards

Thank you very much for the huge support!  :D

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Omnia: The Golden Age
« on: January 31, 2016, 04:38:10 PM »
Hello guys!

We just reached 42,000€ and unlocked "The Origin" Joker.
It's free for any pledge of 3 decks or more, and 2 of them in every brick.

Check the details on the update > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thirdwayind/omnia-the-golden-age-poker-playing-cards/posts/1479127

Btw - those are the last days of the Golden Age, and I won't use backerkit.

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Omnia: The Golden Age
« on: January 20, 2016, 05:17:16 PM »
Carat X3 is now available as add-on in Omnia: The Golden Age Campaign - world premiere  :D

I sent a detailed update with prices and specs...and some cool pics ;)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thirdwayind/omnia-the-golden-age-poker-playing-cards/posts/1468848

It's available only for backers, but you can add as many as you wish ;)

 

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Omnia: The Golden Age
« on: January 15, 2016, 04:23:23 PM »
@Justin - Thank you man!  :D

I'm very proud that Omnia: The Golden Age is in the new issue (out now) of Card Culture! Yay!

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