American Eras by ArtLibra on KS

[ArtLibra]

I will be very grateful for your support.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ar ... ing-cards/








We are pleased to present to you the first story from our line of playing cards, this is the story of American ERAS. These are unique artistic playing cards that are imbued with the spirit of American cultures. The most famous historical eras of the United States are laid down in the American ERAS playing cards. From the Texas Rangers of the Wild West to the Native Americans. With American eras playing cards, you will face the characters of that time face to face and plunge headlong into the historical culture of the United States of America.


Artist's work
All American ERAS characters were drawn by a professional artist based on all the historical aspects of America. It all started with a pencil on canvas and ended with a finished playing card. Before the drawing, all the details and attributes of the characters, their historical affiliations, character, and peculiarity were studied. Special attention was spent on the characters' clothing, piercing gaze, hand position, attributes, and color. All this made it possible to get the four beautiful American epochs, which were assigned their own suit in American ERAS playing cards.

[Decknowledgy]

Oh wow, this is truly gorgeous!! Would you be explaining who the characters are in the KS page? Or do you consider dedicating an ad card to name the court figures?

[ArtLibra]

A description for each picture will be made in a booklet. Which will be in every reward at the KS.

Basically, the cards were made based on 4 сulture of America:

- Culture of African South America (New Orleans),
- Cultures of the Wild West, which has spawned many topics in literature and cinema
- Midwest Indian culture that was widely known outside the United States
- Literary themes of the 20s inspired Dreiser and Fitzgerald.

[Räpylätassu]

These are great!!

[Bradius]

I hate to say this, but for some reason I was expecting to be underwhelmed, but these are really nice. Great job.

[ArtLibra]

I hate to say this, but for some reason I was expecting to be underwhelmed, but these are really nice. Great job.

Thank you very much for the comment)))

[james001a]

The artwork looks very nice, but there is something about the name that turns me off. I think it is the number 4 that looks odd. Maybe that's it. I don't know but it just doesn't look good on the tuck.

[Magic Tapp]

Thank you for sharing. The concept is interesting (although I would agree that you may want to consider another name for the deck) and the courts are appealing but the tuck may need some work and could do with embossing and some foil.

[rousselle]

4 Eras of America?
4 Epochs of America?
4 Ages of America?
4 Worlds of America?

[Bradius]

I would just go with America United. I am tired of so much dividing of America. Our strength is in the combination we each bring to the table.

The more I look at the cards, the more I like it. The artwork is really exceptional and has an cohesive them. You even include a one way and two way designs that look great on their own and fit seamlessly together. Wow!

[OVSUB]

On one note: Black deck = Black guy
I find it to be a funny coincidence.
But yeah I thought it would be a cheesy half baked idea but you really have put thought and design prowess into this. I like it very much.

As for the name, what I can gather from the theme I think something along the lines of:
The making of America.
Those that built America.
The pillars of America.
Or something like that would be more fitting as the decks have a nice unifying theme and I personally think that "4 times of America" are just sectioning off our history, when in reality they become us and are part of our lives, as Americans ofc. It is our past yes but is also very much alive in the American psyche I suppose.

[MaxPower]

Change the name to ‘American Eras’ and you have a winner—that can even support future editions.

[ArtLibra]

You really put in a stupor me with the name.
But in reality, the name is something we didn’t even think about. This name was taken, when we came up with the theme of the deck. And we never returned to the name.

But, we are still at the place where we can change it. I would like to know your opinion, so I created a quick vote. Who wants to influence the name of our deck, follow the link and vote (it will take no more than 1 minute).

http://www.strawpoll.me/19645013

Thanks everyone

[Decknowledgy]

I see the choices, but tbh all weren't fitting to my taste and doesn't fit with the norms of titling or headings. For any heading, if you're using the Arabic numeral "4" in the title, it's used as an ordinal function, like "the 4th century" or the "4th dimension," but still very rare. Usually no matter if you're using the number as cardinal (four) or ordinal (fourth), the whole word should be spelled out. Second, "of" is commonly used to demonstrate the subject, so "Eras of America" would be more common than "American Eras", the latter which gives the impression that the phrase is used as the subject in a sentence that should be followed by other syntactical components (verb and object). So my suggestion is to narrow down the choices to two:

1. "Eras of America"
2. "The Four Eras of America" (an article before the number "four" is better used to stress the adjective use of "four" in relation to "eras")

Hope this helps!

[ArtLibra]

I see the choices, but tbh all weren't fitting to my taste and doesn't fit with the norms of titling or headings. For any heading, if you're using the Arabic numeral "4" in the title, it's used as an ordinal function, like "the 4th century" or the "4th dimension," but still very rare. Usually no matter if you're using the number as cardinal (four) or ordinal (fourth), the whole word should be spelled out. Second, "of" is commonly used to demonstrate the subject, so "Eras of America" would be more common than "American Eras", the latter which gives the impression that the phrase is used as the subject in a sentence that should be followed by other syntactical components (verb and object). So my suggestion is to narrow down the choices to two:

1. "Eras of America"
2. "The Four Eras of America" (an article before the number "four" is better used to stress the adjective use of "four" in relation to "eras")

Hope this helps!

"Eras of America" I like it too
"The Four Eras of America" it`s too long

[MaxPower]

I see the choices, but tbh all weren't fitting to my taste and doesn't fit with the norms of titling or headings. For any heading, if you're using the Arabic numeral "4" in the title, it's used as an ordinal function, like "the 4th century" or the "4th dimension," but still very rare. Usually no matter if you're using the number as cardinal (four) or ordinal (fourth), the whole word should be spelled out. Second, "of" is commonly used to demonstrate the subject, so "Eras of America" would be more common than "American Eras", the latter which gives the impression that the phrase is used as the subject in a sentence that should be followed by other syntactical components (verb and object). So my suggestion is to narrow down the choices to two:

1. "Eras of America"
2. "The Four Eras of America" (an article before the number "four" is better used to stress the adjective use of "four" in relation to "eras")

Hope this helps!

Perhaps you’re overthinking this?
From a marketing standpoint, “American Eras” is the best option.

[Decknowledgy]

I see the choices, but tbh all weren't fitting to my taste and doesn't fit with the norms of titling or headings. For any heading, if you're using the Arabic numeral "4" in the title, it's used as an ordinal function, like "the 4th century" or the "4th dimension," but still very rare. Usually no matter if you're using the number as cardinal (four) or ordinal (fourth), the whole word should be spelled out. Second, "of" is commonly used to demonstrate the subject, so "Eras of America" would be more common than "American Eras", the latter which gives the impression that the phrase is used as the subject in a sentence that should be followed by other syntactical components (verb and object). So my suggestion is to narrow down the choices to two:

1. "Eras of America"
2. "The Four Eras of America" (an article before the number "four" is better used to stress the adjective use of "four" in relation to "eras")

Hope this helps!

Perhaps you’re overthinking this?
From a marketing standpoint, “American Eras” is the best option.

Would like to see your rationale, but just to clarify, I'm coming from academic papers, journal articles, and book publishing.

[rousselle]

I have always been encouraged when project creators come to this site asking for suggestions on how to be successful and then... *listen* and *take seriously* the suggestions that are offered. You might be surprised how often project creators come here asking for advice when really, all they want is to be applauded.

You have taken our suggestions seriously, and the fact that you are willing to make modifications based upon your interactions with the folks here fills me with hope that your project will not only be successful from a business standpoint, but from a creative standpoint, as well.

All of here really want the same thing: more excellent decks to add to our collection.

I'm finding this exchange very encouraging.

[Eric Lee]

Is it just me or can anyone else see the pictures? Links doesn't work anymore as well

[theCapraAegagrus]

Yeah, I hate the name of the deck. Fix that and you probably have a winner.

[Jocu]

Yeah, I hate the name of the deck. Fix that and you probably have a winner.

Agreed, use one of the suggestions above. The first thing I thought as an English as a foreign language teacher was 'someone's done a bad translation here'.

We know what you mean, but it's not how we would say it. Change the name and you've got a winner.

[Bradius]

As I was looking at the cards, it doesn't look like you were going to print the one-way design onto some cards. I really wish one of the versions would be using the one way design.

[Harvonsgard]

I didn't check the campaign but I thought exactly that was the point of multiple decks and a one way design in the pictures. Would even be more fitting since most cards at that era were still one-way courts.

[STLBluesNut]

When I opened this thread, reading just the title and seeing only the tuck I also thought the title was a bad translation. So I will echo the the name sentiment. The court at is very well done though. It was not what I expected after reading your plea for us to not be too harsh.

The tucks could use a little embossing and foil polish. I would also like to see one of the versions with the one way.

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[Eric Lee]

Fully agree on a 1 way courts like what Circus by Marianne did. In fact, Testament by Ben Green also had that original plan of 1 deck with 2 way courts and another with 1 way courts. He eventually stuck with the full 1 way courts in the relaunch as the backers supported that rather than the 2 way courts.

Do consider that. 1 deck as a 2 way and another as a 1 way. 1 of them will be kept as a stretch goal or 2nd edition.

[ArtLibra]

Thank you all for your comments. We fix everything as far as possible. The name was changed to "American Eras." I also made a new design of the front of the box. I really want to see your comments about the new design.

About one way courts. Unfortunately, we did not assume that we could make a 1 way courts. And we did so that in each picture there is a border (oblique line) which now prevents us from making a 1 way courts. In the next projects, we will definitely pay attention to this.
Perhaps in the near future, we will edit our paintings to make a 1 way courts.

Embossing and gold foil will definitely be present on our tucks.

[Bradius]

Actually, I thought that line was on purpose. I think it ties in really nicely with the two-way courts. I like the design almost the way it is. You just need to add an index for the cards and pips, which could probably be the same. If total cost of doing two separate runs and them minimum order for each, I think either doing it as a stretch goal or another campaign could work. Honestly, I think not using the one way designs you already have would be a shame.

[Harvonsgard]

That new tuck is so much better than the old ones.

[MagikFingerz]

FYI: I much prefer two-way courts, just to provide some counter-balance to the one-way heretics out there

[Harvonsgard]

Looking from playing card history, two-way courts and indices are the actual heresy...

I prefer the two-way courts as well in that case but I figured if you already have multiple decks in a campaign why not actually make them really different instead of the meanwhile old pattern with 1 or 2 standard decks, one limited and one gilded limited deck.