Top Trumps inspired Instructables Card Game

Step 3 Designing the cards - by Gmjhowe

Being a graphic designer by trade, gmjhowe was the obvious choice to design the cards.

Once given the data from Jayefuu, he opened it up in excel Neooffice, slight modifications were made to the data to allow the images to be merged into the design with the data.

All the designing and merging was done in Indesign. Various batch Photoshop batch features were used to scrape the avatars of each user from the web, convert them all to CMYK for print, and resize them for use in the cards.

Once all the merging was done a few avatars were tweaked to improve the resolution or fit.

A proof deck was then printed to create the demo video seen in the first step. This sample deck was then posted to HQ and the finished cards sent to print.

Comments

[ploogle]

How are you printing the cards?

[Jayefuu]

Gmjhowe works as a graphic designer. His work have all the printers and cutting stuff to make a really pro looking job of it :)

[ganglion]

 Thanks for including me in this project! Looking forward to seeing the cards.