Craft: Similar to other half of the deck, I used both Adobe Illustrator and Indesign for the remaining cards. The other cards I had to make was the Skip, Reverse, and the four different Wild cards. The images of a beach ball, seashell, sailboat, kite, umbrella, and surfboard were found off Google. Those images were then traced with the Pen tool in Adobe Illustrator. Once I was done tracing, I placed the images into InDesign with their correct border. The numbers were added using the Text tool in InDesign. The Eyedropper tool was used when matching the color of the image with the border. For the four Wild cards, I used the Eyedropper tool on the four different images.
Composition: Since the Skip and Reverse cards are similar to the other images, viewers see the images first on the card. They're located in the center and take up most of the space. The border immediately follows since it's the next largest thing and is the same color as the image for the middle. The letters are what viewers see last due to their size in comparison to the image. Since the word, Reverse, is a long word I had to crunch the letters and make the font smaller. The word appears small from a distance so it's harder to identify that in relation to the other numbers. The word, Skip, is only four letters, along with the word Wild so viewers would be able to identify those words first before the Reverse cards. The Wild cards have a similar focus drawn as the Draw Four cards. The images in the middle display the most attention since they do comprise of four different colors. The black border brings out the white background and the letters. This combination portrays a strong contrast against the colorful images.
Concept: All these cards in some way reinforce the beach theme due to the meaning behind the image and the word displayed on the card. The Skip card can relate to people that skip rocks in the ocean. While most people don't necessarily skip shells, the same type of feeling is applied because most people associate skipping with a small object. The Reverse card elicits a beach game if one was occurring at the beach. Beach balls are meant to be hit back and forth so the Reverse card makes it appear as if the player was going to hit the ball back to the other player. It helps establish a beach theme. The different images on the Wild cards correspond to the idea that people bring a variety of different objects to the beach. Someone can't physically bring a sailboat, but someone might use one at the beach. Nothing is the same about going to the beach and these cards elicit that idea. Even though these cards may be 2-D, the meaning behind them can relate to anbody.
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