Senior Graphic Designer

Good Cards Gone Bad

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The Client

Good Cards Gone Bad: Twisted Cards for Twisted People is the project of photographer Kaos Beauty Klinik. He creates tantalizing, twisted images of intricate tattoos, mysterious women, and ghostly landscapes. The elegant, eclectic images are printed on high quality photographic stock, then attached with photo corners to deckle-edged cards.

The Challenge

Good Cards Gone Bad needed a responsive e-commerce WordPress website that would allow the photographer to sell his handcrafted cards on all platforms. He wanted a site that was elegant and sensuous, and allowed for both his nature and portrait work. In addition, he wanted to incorporate a blog as part of his marketing plan. The site is no longer active, unfortunately, but I have some images from the photoshoot below.

The Solution

I customized a WordPress theme to add e-commerce capability and special type styling. Working with the photographer, I wrote the text on the site, highlighting the portraiture and eerie landscapes. I also sourced and managed a developer to add some specific elements of code.

The Impact

Sales for this new venture totaled more than 200 cards for the first six months of business.

Photo of 3 greeting cards on a bookcase, standing up, each with a photo attached to it with photo corners. Left card: dark blue tunnel with slender female figure backlit against the entrance. Center: matter-of-fact woman in lingerie on hotel bed, part of her body and face reflected in a mirror. Cool-toned bedspread with warm-toned skin. Right: woman lying on her back on a dresser in the corner of a room. She's lying on her back with her legs up the wall. Blue and green tones with pale skin.
Photo of greeting card on a bookcase, standing up, with a photo attached to it with photo corners. Black and white image of a woman with her back to the viewer, looking in a mirror. She has a large elaborate tattoo of a demon on her back. Her face is visible in the mirror.
Photo of greeting card on a bookcase, standing up, with a photo attached to it with photo corners. Color image: a statue of a winged graveyard angel from the waist up.
Photo of greeting card on a bookcase, standing up, with a photo attached to it with photo corners. Infrared photo of a lake and vegetation in Golden Gate Park's Botanical Gardens in San Francisco.
Photo of greeting card on a bookcase, standing up, with a photo attached to it with photo corners. Infrared photo of an elaborate greenhouse, the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

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