Lucky Hands Card Deck by Malika Favre
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Lucky Hands Card Deck by Malika Favre
Malika Favre designed these in collaboration with Alice Balas (clothing brand). You can see them here:- Merlebird
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Re: Lucky Hands Card Deck by Malika Favre
I maybe "$15" like these. I definitely do not "£60" like them.
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Re: Lucky Hands Card Deck by Malika Favre
cool cards, but the repeating courts with only a color change is less inspired than I would've expected from such an amazing artist like Malika Favre (who I absolutely love btw lol)... it makes me sad... and that is a pretty proud price if I ever saw one!
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Re: Lucky Hands Card Deck by Malika Favre
It's not quite as bad as an old-school, 16-bit RPG palette swap; you can see there are very small variations in the lineart as well. (The QoS has epaulets, for example, and she's petting a badger where the QoH has a fox.) But it's only barely more effort - akin to newer, 3D RPGs where incidental polygons might be added or transformed but the underlying skeleton remains identical for each iteration of the same enemy.PipChick wrote:the repeating courts with only a color change is less inspired
All this is to say: still lazy. But lazy in a more modern way.
Looking at Favre's "about" page, I see it describes her style as "Pop Art meets OpArt." Well, fair enough. Mass repetition of images is sort of Pop Art's thing. And if she's an established, in-demand artist - which preliminary Googling seems to suggest she is - then the price point makes more sense. £60 is a gobsmacking ask to the collectable playing card community, but I have to imagine it sounds about right for a limited-run objet d'art marketed to the gallery set.
If she can demand that kind of paper, more power to her. And I think it's good to have it out on the market to push the conversation, as it were - give present and future designers ideas or inspiration.
But I'm certainly not giving her my £60, because some Greek guy already shook me down for it.
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Re: Lucky Hands Card Deck by Malika Favre
ah, I see the differences; on first glance I didn't notice; there aren't too many pictures, but you're right - there are small (very minimal) changes between the courts.Merlebird wrote:It's not quite as bad as an old-school, 16-bit RPG palette swap; you can see there are very small variations in the lineart as well. (The QoS has epaulets, for example, and she's petting a badger where the QoH has a fox.) But it's only barely more effort - akin to newer, 3D RPGs where incidental polygons might be added or transformed but the underlying skeleton remains identical for each iteration of the same enemy.PipChick wrote:the repeating courts with only a color change is less inspired
All this is to say: still lazy. But lazy in a more modern way.
Looking at Favre's "about" page, I see it describes her style as "Pop Art meets OpArt." Well, fair enough. Mass repetition of images is sort of Pop Art's thing. And if she's an established, in-demand artist - which preliminary Googling seems to suggest she is - then the price point makes more sense. £60 is a gobsmacking ask to the collectable playing card community, but I have to imagine it sounds about right for a limited-run objet d'art marketed to the gallery set.
As for the price, I still think it's a bit much. I mean look at Ryan McGinness (another super well known pop artist with works in museums around the globe); when he made his blacklight nudie cards with his iconic figure studies (also marketed to the art gallery crowd) it still was only 35 bucks.... I mean, he was a curator for Warhol and has numerous pieces in museums...
Don't get me wrong, I really like Malika Favre, and she definitely has made her mark in the art world, but I also don't think it's terribly unfair to make the comparison with all things considered...
Here's McGinness' deck; sure, there are also recolors, but many more different (noticeably different) designs overall
And a resounding yes to all of thisMerlebird wrote:And I think it's good to have it out on the market to push the conversation, as it were - give present and future designers ideas or inspiration.
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Re: Lucky Hands Card Deck by Malika Favre
Easy pass for me.
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