Kay,
Thanks for the podcast link, I enjoyed it! So did you and Chris design the card layouts as well as the art on each card? From the podcast, it sounded like the publisher did the card layouts. It's great that you got to do the borderless layout. I love borderless decks. Borders do make economical sense, they can butt the cards together on the sheet and separate 2 cards with just one chop. But then when they have a border, it forces the image to get smaller and details are lost.
I've seen decks where the borders are intricate and go with the theme, but for the QT, borderless is more cutting edge (sorry about the pun) and forward thinking.
I enjoyed hearing your reading for Chris. I was reminded of the first time I saw the 3 of pentacles, I was a little taken back... like "what is this?"- because for all the images taken *by* the Hubble, I've never seen an image *of* it! It's not particularly pretty, it has that home-made, mad scientist feel to it with a hint of leftovers wrapped up in the fridge... just crazy enough to work. Right at home in the pentacles. And yet, I'm always flabbergasted by the images returned from it, truly a modern miracle!
I was also curious about the cup images in the deck- they are quite unusual and stylized, they almost look like a functioning part of a spacecraft. Was that the intended feel to them?
Lisa
There are so many layers to the images that I often go back and look at the same card and see something new that I hadn't noticed or focused on before. I also like it because if I just want to read cards (and not the book) I can gain meaning simply by looking at the cards and not feel compelled to read the book meaning. But, there are times that the scientific meanings in the book are fascinating and so it's a good right brain/left brain balance. Sorry if I'm repeating what's already been mentioned in this thread, I confess to not having read all 300+ messages in it!
