When designing playing cards, the overall mood and theme reflects that of expression in regards to bodily shape, personality and form, as the body can take on many different movements and positions. These gestures and organic shapes work together to incorporate these personalities, such as feminism, masculinity, freedom and solidarity. Each playing card expresses its own mood and theme in regards to the player to showcase these different unique and natural humanistic formations. Colors are very light and warm to establish the sense of natural simplicity.
Moonchildren is an insightfully comic story about youth and the counter culture of the 1960’s. It’s set at the onset of the Vietnam war and told from the point of view of a collection of college students who for various reasons never fully allow each other into their lives. It is a time of upheaval and transition, and all of them are searching for meaning while coping with the chaos of change. In doing so, they realize that their lives might be as empty as the establishment they are protesting so vehemently against.
