What Do You Think Makes a Perfect Trading Card?
(…let’s keep this clean, kids…)
As some of you may know, I am now in the trading card business. Being a trading card designer with a blog dedicated to trading cards has its perplexing angles, one no more acute than reviewing trading card designs. However, while it’s easy to design based on my own tastes, and while it’s easy for me to judge other designs based on my personal and professional opinion, it’s difficult to be objective on a broad scale when only considering ONE opinion. After all, trading cards are not meant to be designed for one person in mind, they are designed for the trading card community en masse.
While card companies such as Topps, Upper Deck and Panini have shown they can produce some incredibly designed cards, they’ve also proven that they can do the exact opposite. This makes me wonder… are their designers concerned with their consumers’ opinions on card design, or do they strictly meet the approval of their respective lead designers and/or editors without considering the audience?
THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN
If you’re reading this blog, chances are you’ve seen a trading card or two in your life and have formulated some opinion on how they look. I’d like to put that opinion to good use. What do YOU think makes a trading card perfect? If you’d like to satisfy my curiosity, and perhaps your own, I ask you kindly to participate in a very quick survey. Once I’ve received no less than 50 responses, I will report back with results.
SO! If you please…
TAKE MY SURVEY!
Thank you for your time and participation!
