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Malika Favre designed these in collaboration with Alice Balas (clothing brand). You can see them here: http://malikafavreshop.bigcartel.com/pr ... -card-deck

I maybe "$15" like these. I definitely do not "£60" like them.

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!

PipChick wrote:the repeating courts with only a color change is less inspired

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.

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.

Merlebird wrote:

PipChick wrote:the repeating courts with only a color change is less inspired

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.

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.

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.

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

Merlebird 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.

And a resounding yes to all of this

Crack pipe price, dang.

Easy pass for me.