We're rounding the corner to the end of the campaign, and have just under a week left! You've made some amazing progress with the pledges, as well as towards the final stretch goals, and we look forward to adding each new bonus to your rewards!
New Stretch Goal: We've added a 24k gold plating option to the stretch goals now. If you want your coins to be genuine 24k gold plated, then this will become available.
We're still open to adding something for the $175k mark, if anyone has anything they'd really love to see as a value-add bonus we can accommodate!
Coin Artwork:
A little behind the scenes peek! Adjusting the source illustrations of the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck has been an interesting process. Some coins are well suited and closely match the originals. Others are thematically very similar, but with some of their visual compositions adjusted to allow some new elements and symbols in, or to tweak existing ones. The Page of Pentacles is one such, where the core is still the same, but has had some things reworked slightly - in this case, the progression of the past to future now incorporates some elemental notions of fire and earth being left behind, with the time of water and air lying ahead.
The guide book will have detailed explanations of the significance of the images on each coin to help with your interpretations or to add to your depth of understanding of your coin set.
Cylinder Holder:
Since people have been asking about the cylinder holder, we wanted to share out some of the work being done on it. This Add-On will be a cylindrical holder for the coins, to organize them into a long column instead of several rows/columns layout of the boxes. With the dimensions we have calculated for the coins, the cylinder will be approximately 10 x 2.5" and make a majestic way to store your coins or present them on a shelf or altar.
We haven't finalized the designs, but these are some mood board references to give you some idea of the final form, and will likely be a combination of wood, metal, or leather.
Mood Board
Structurally, they'll be like the last image here, on its base stand. There's a lot of directions to go in with this, including making the cylinder itself octagonal like the coins, or more rounded, and we'll lock in details a little further down the line.
Sketch concepts of octagonal versus round
Social Media Challenge:
We're going to be running a challenge for the final week, to spread awareness of the project for the final week!
To Enter:
1 - Follow us on our social media channel (Necessary to participate) 2 - a) Create a post, or reshare and tag @geekifyinc on your social media channel of choice. (Worth 1 Chance) b) Tag a friend on that post who you think needs to see it (Worth 1 Chance per friend tagged) c) Create an original image to post (Worth 2 Chances)
You may use images in this Dropbox folder to help create your posts, or anything you've seen posted on the BackerKit campaign so far. Share what you're excited about, or how you plan to use them.
We will select winners from the pool of everyone who participates.
First Place: 24k Gold Plated Tarot Coin Set (All 78 Coins)
Second Place: Rainbow Plated Tarot Coin Set (All 78 Coins)
Third Place: Choice of Antique or Shiny Tarot Coin Set (All 78 Coins)
Fourth Place: Single Coin (your choice)
Fifth Place: Single Coin (your choice)
We'll track the tags and enter your name into a raffle for some awesome prizes.
If we reach 500 posts in a week (that's less than 1 per person on the campaign), we'll include a little extra something for all of the backers as well.
