we started with the design and implementation of the Heroes Playing Cards, the HEROES DECK.
The last years, many “heroes” of our youth died, especially great musicians like Bowie, Prince, Jackson, Cocker and others. But also when we and our parents were young, there were many artists that helped us drive our everyday life and the visions of the future, like Lennon, Hendrix, Marley or Morrison.
So why not keep them in our minds every day on playing cards? This was the idea of the HEROS DECK.
To be able to realize this game and beeing sure not to get problems with the copyrights of images, we wanted to create a pure hand-made printing template. All artists are individually hand carved in linoleum and printed on high-quality cardboard with linoleum ink. The prints are rather large, so we can also make original Artprints on Bütten and even on T-shirts. But also a coloured direct printing version will be available.
"Heroes Vol.1" includes 12 artists, including 3 women. The fourth "queen" of course is Freddy Mercury
Here's the "making of .." the first motive and the first layout. We are now working on the lettering, the backside and the Tuck Box.
We want to launch the project in August on Kickstarter and will keep you up to date with the development of the deck. The Manufacturer of the cards will be #USPCC or #Legends, both premium producer. We will have to check the further design of teh Tuck Box and other things like shipment, fulfilment etc. So please stay tuned.. more coming soon!
Cheers, Oz from DAC
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