Update Oct 20: Maker’s Deck beta soft launch at Hamburg Maker Meeting
The Maker’s Deck is an ongoing collection of trading cards. It is first and foremost an art-and-documentation project.
I love trading cards, but am neither interested in sports or fantasy games. So I am making the cards I would want to buy.
They will soon be available on Etsy. But: these made-by-hand packs are very elaborate and time-consuming to make, that’s why I will make less of them and they will be expensive and numbered.
I am also preparing a more reproducable version of the set and a Kickstarter-campaign to make them available much cheaper.
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Yes. Besides releasing all files and artwork on Github, I will also share the process of how to make cards yourself.
The cards are currently released via Creative Commons License BY-NC-SA.
Cheers,
filtercake (fabian at makersdeck.com)
So far all cards are illustrated in ink and watercolors by myself.
No. These are more in the tradition of sports trading cards. The backs of the cards feature information like website, creators, license etc.
Via my etsy account and wherever I personally attend.
I will do an initial artsy series of 6 handmade and sealed booster packs á 7 cards. Each pack also features a blank card to document your own project.
Secondly, there are cards for conferences or barcamps and the like, where the Maker’s Deck is somehow “attending”. One meter of desk or on the wall does it, it’s not primarily a point of sale but a micro exhibition.
This is the first half of the inital 42 I locked on Oct 5th:
MeeBlip, Rubber Band Gun Business Card, Kritzler, Cubelets, Lasersaur, Free Universal Construction Kit, Makey Makey
Makibox A6, Ninja Blocks, DIY, Advice Machine, XMEGA Xprotolab, Digispark, Attraktor Hamburg
Raspberry Pi, Molecule Synth, Punnet, Today I Made, MIDI-Moov, Fritzing, B9Creator
So far I wrote to about 50 projects, reveived 22 confirmations and 3 rejections. If there is a project you think should be included, please tell me.
Right now. The Kickstarter campaign will not go before 2013.
The packs are €25 each. No, I don’t expect anybody to buy them at this price, which is the point. If you are interested in owning original pieces of art, grab it while it’s hot.
Otherwise, wait for the first complete deck.
fabian at makersdeck dot com, @makersdeck, @filtercake.
