Quote from: PipChick on May 03, 2018, 04:25:27 PM

If anyone can help, it would be much appreciated

She does have a largely finished deck design here - very cool and modern.  She could look into simply selling the design outright to an already-operating playing card company.  I helped broker a deck to sell a deck to Gambler's Warehouse once.  She could easily shop this around to the smaller card companies if she lacked the know-how to get it off the ground on her own.

yea, that's also what I'm thinking - for a first deck, I think a KS campaign and dealing with production on one's own can be really daunting and might be too much to tackle. Thanks for the input

Hi all,

so, I recently came across an artist's work on Behance that is of a nearly complete deck design (actually quite well designed IMHO) and I shared her work on UC (thread here: https://unitedcardists.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=11517) and contacted her to inquire if she was considering to have the deck produced or to launch a KS to raise funds to do so.

She's based in Russia and says she has none of the technical knowledge needed for production and asked for guidance in making her deck concept a reality.

Problem is, as much as I'd love to help her, I don't have any of the experience or know-how to even begin to point her in the right direction, yet alone give her guidance in any way. But, I thought maybe someone on here does and could help her much more than I'm capable of. Anyways, check out her designs below:

IMO, this deck is looking quite clip-art-y and is very far from reflecting "luxury" as the name suggests - it's going to be a hard pass for me.

Actually, the term "mechanic" is used in a different way by Mechanic Industries.  In card sharp parlance, a "mechanic" is someone who "fixes" card games, or in plainer terms, rigs them in his or someone else's favor!  The Mechanic Industries motto is "Fixing Games Since 2012!"  As I understand it, the company was created and is run by a British magician.

Yea, that's exactly why I suggested it; it's a double entendre in which perfectly bridges both his hobbies, both as a play on words and quite literally.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/montenzi/neo-wave-playing-cards?ref=discovery&term=playing%20cards

Hi Rob, I'm also new to this forum.

Coming from an automotive background, I thought maybe you'd be interested in the decks from Mechanic Industries.

I always find it really interesting to get a glimpse of others' interests/passions through their deck collections and a great way to introduce others with similar hobbies to card collecting/cardistry/magic.

Anyways, you should consider checking out their decks - also, the flip-book animation style of the gears moving on the backside of the cards are a really unique feature to show off. Check it out --> http://www.mechanicindustries.com/

Sincerely, Amy from Germany

Hi everyone,

I'm new to this community but have been a card enthusiast for years and have been casually collecting decks - mostly those with transformative and semi-transformative designs and art decks.

Anyways, I've recently moved to Germany and was wondering if there are any friends that also share my hobby?