baba-prague
Thanks Moonman, that list is useful. However, I think some of these publishers don't do original decks - only reprints. I may be wrong about this, but we see a lot of Platnik decks here in Prague (as we are close to Vienna, which is where Platnik are based) and they are usually reprints of historic decks - and they seem to do more Oracle cards than Tarot. I would guess that some of the Italian publishers are similar - i.e. unfortunately it might not be worthwhile submitting new work to them.
As someone said on another thread, Lo Scarabeo commission everything themselves and do it in-house.
I guess it's just different business models and specialisms. Maybe it would be useful to try to narrow down this list (and add others) to those who will actually look at proposals from designers and artists?
We are effectively acting as our own (very small!) publisher, doing our deck and then, hopefully, one more of our design and one with an artist here (we spent some very interesting hours yesterday looking at Marseilles, Thoth and RWS with him so that he understands fully what the possibilities are). I'll be more than happy to report back. However, as discussed on another thread, we have lower than average print costs here (not very low, but definitely not as high as Western Europe or USA) so things that are viable/affordable here may not really be the same in other countries. Also, we are both professional artists/designers so it's easier for us to do all our own print-ready artwork and supervise colour separations etc. If you have to pay someone to do all this, again, it may change the costs quite a bit.
Anyway, like I say, we can feedback a bit of our experience as we go along if it is relevant and useful.
ps - ignore our web site (can't believe I'm saying this!) We have redesigned all the cards - more or less completely - and the new site (www.tarotofprague) will be up in about a week.
Best wishes,
Karen
As someone said on another thread, Lo Scarabeo commission everything themselves and do it in-house.
I guess it's just different business models and specialisms. Maybe it would be useful to try to narrow down this list (and add others) to those who will actually look at proposals from designers and artists?
We are effectively acting as our own (very small!) publisher, doing our deck and then, hopefully, one more of our design and one with an artist here (we spent some very interesting hours yesterday looking at Marseilles, Thoth and RWS with him so that he understands fully what the possibilities are). I'll be more than happy to report back. However, as discussed on another thread, we have lower than average print costs here (not very low, but definitely not as high as Western Europe or USA) so things that are viable/affordable here may not really be the same in other countries. Also, we are both professional artists/designers so it's easier for us to do all our own print-ready artwork and supervise colour separations etc. If you have to pay someone to do all this, again, it may change the costs quite a bit.
Anyway, like I say, we can feedback a bit of our experience as we go along if it is relevant and useful.
ps - ignore our web site (can't believe I'm saying this!) We have redesigned all the cards - more or less completely - and the new site (www.tarotofprague) will be up in about a week.
Best wishes,
Karen