Alexandra Mendes

The finish of this card is amazing. The gold stock and ink make it look really exclusive and special. The wax seal is also a brilliant finishing touch. This is the kind of feel I want to achieve in the magic brief as it would help make the society into something secretive and cool.

Magic Symbols

These are magic symbols with more of an occult background.








From:

http://links2theoccult.co.uk/magic.htm
http://gyllenegryningen.blogspot.com/2009/12/art-of-evocation-review-of-grand-key-of.html
http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/goetia.htm
http://www.saintdoctor.com/KabalaDoctor.html
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Search/?kw=diagrams&source=Mathers-Goetia
http://kachina2012.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/greek-astrologers-and-nazis-had-king-solomon-in-a-knot/
http://spiritualsatanist.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html

Children's Kits

Its hard to find examples of magic kits that are already out there. They all seem to be really poorly designed like these:




I prefer these ones that have been produced for the Science Museum. The packaging looks a lot cleaner with more modern type and brighter colours. Black/horror might be appropriate to magic as a theme but the other kits just look drab.

Bartender Tricks

A good way of making magic appeal to teenagers would be to teach them things to impress their friends when out drinking. I found loads of good tricks on this website: http://bartendermagic.com/ This older target audience would also allow me to create a pack with a more refined design identity rather than something flashy and playful that would appeal to children.

Magic For Kids

http://www.cardtricksite.com//tricks.htm
http://kids.mysterynet.com/magic/rules/

These two websites have some simple tricks that children would be able to follow with a couple of basic illustrations and they all use items that are easily found around the house. These would be good to include in the trick manual if I decide to aim it at kids.