Above: secretive 4 of spades
PROBLEM
Redesign three different playing cards by reorganizing and adjusting each card's
formal qualities to communicate more specific meanings in a visually aesthetic
way.
PROCEDURE
Randomly select two playing cards from the deck comprised of aces and number
cards.
Pick a descriptive word out of the hat.
Recreate the two cards so that each one:
• effectively communicates your word, and
• displays a visually aesthetic
design
Requirement: Must be created using Adobe Illustrator with your own resource
materials
Randomly select one additional playing card from the deck comprised of jacks,
queens, kings and jokers.
Recreate this card so that it:
• communicates whatever you choose, and
• displays a visually aesthetic
design
Requirement: Must be created using traditional drawing, collage and painting
tools & techniques (non-computer) with your own resource materials
PARAMETERS
Size: Each final card must be the actual size of a playing card from our deck
Color: Number cards & aces - black or red and white including
any tints and shades
J, Q, K, Jokers - primary yellow, red, blue, black and white including tints
and shades
Format: A set of the same numbers and suit ID as a word or letter, not symbol (either the word diamond, club, heart or spade, or the initial for each d, c, h or s) must be in two opposite corners (top left, bottom right) mirroring one another as in a normal deck; also, there must be the correct number of suit symbols on the card besides the two corner symbols. You can make variations on any of the symbols in the inner section of the card as long as they still appear to have come from the same original and still look like the symbol they are supposed to represent. You can overlap symbols as long as they can be individually recognized and counted.
Medium:
Number cards & aces - finals done in Adobe Illustrator, printed in color
and mounted individually on black matboard
J, Q, K, Jokers- finals done by hand using traditional painting and drawing
techniques mounted on black matboard
Important Note: You may not include any symbols, numbers and/or shapes to illustrate your number or ace cards besides the ones that already are a part of the original card. However, you can stylize the existing elements.
SCHEDULE
Fri., Jan. 31: Thumbnails Due for Review by Instructor
(Twenty of each number card or ace, five of the face card; each thumbnail must
have the correct proportions of the card shape, some rendered with correct colors)
Wed., Feb. 5: Roughs Due (Two of each of the three
cards; six roughs total, all in color, all actual size)
Mon., Feb. 10: Final Versions Due (one of each card,
mounted individually as specified in class together with a one-page word-processed
process and justification paper)