Week 12: Half Deck of Beach Uno Cards

Craft: This week, we had to make half of our card deck building on ideas from the previous weeks.  Instead of using Adobe Illustrator, we used a new program, Adobe Indesign for our cards.  Indesign allows us to create masters and copies of each card so that we can easily make a layout for the cards.  Illustrator was used to make the images, while Indesign was used to create text and numbers.  Since the cards have to have consistency, I used multiple master pages in order for the images and numbers to be in approximately the same location within every other card. While on Indesign, I chose a font and applied that to the numbers and text.  The rulers allowed me to measure the numbers to make sure that they were similar within the top and bottom. The Export and Place button was used in order for me to place Illustrator images into Indesign.
Composition: When applying all the text and images into one template, viewers can easily identify the image first since it's located in the center of the page. The border is what follows after the image since it's located around the image and contains a little less space than the image does. The numbers are what viewers immediately see next since the numbers are located on top of the borders. However, when playing Uno, players will be able to see the numbers first then the border since they'll be most likely playing with their cards up.  They won't see the image until after they've placed their card done.
Concept: Even though it's only half a deck, the border alone allows the audience to recognize that the cards are part of an uno deck.  The border is similar to a real Uno deck except the borders are geometric and not organic.  Looking at the images, people might be able to recognize that these correlate to a beach theme.  None of the images are too broad where it's hard to identify what theme that this deck might represent.  The black border relating to the draw 4 cards elicits a different meaning for those cards in comparison to the rest.  If the cards were part of the color spectrum, then they would appear to be closely related to the other colors.  It would be hard to identify that those cards are different than the rest of the cards.