Week 8

THE JOKER/WILD CARD:

These are playing cards which is elevated above its usual rank in trick-taking games. Typically, these cards outrank all normal (non-joker/wild-card) suits. In other contexts, these cards can refer to any sort of action, authority, or policy which automatically prevails over all others.

In this case, I want a wild-card to engage me somehow to push myself to think outside of the box, and develop/improve the skills I need/have to get to where I want to be.

Images: Various examples of joker cards – traditionally there would be a joker that is illustrated as a jester. Modern day joker cards can be illustrated as anything.

Firstly; I need to think about the purpose of these cards. It’s growth, to enable me to grow as a designer and absorb, explore and create in ways that I haven’t already. To start this idea of making a wild-card, I have begun to look at how growth can be symbolised in my card deck.

Table: this has been taken from a tattooing website that has demonstrated what certain illustrative tattoos represent. I find these really interesting and I never knew that is what they meant.

Images: plant symbolism guide shows how various plants can represent different qualities, and I have chosen the four plants that I feel could be considered as the qualities are all relevant in developing my skills further in the cards.
  • Illustrations of seven symbols that represent growth in various ways.
  • Adding colour as a clipping mask based off the original plant colours.
I’ve drawn my own illustrations of the symbols above. I have added colour to enhance the illustrations but I wanted it to be subtle. I have used the colours from the plants themselves and created an overlaid clipping mask in Photoshop, which resulted in only the lines picking up the colours.
  • Small dash experiment.
  • Considering larger dashed lines – but I felt that was strongest in the typography.
  • Solid lines also break up the design, providing better hierarchy between image and text.
Experiments showing how I came to choose the lines that I could write on for my wildcards – I made the opacity at 45% in the end as I wanted to have the lines as guides. I can write my future challenge on these cards to acquire more skills.
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