This is the seventh deck printed under the Collectable playing cards seal: Bicycle Pyromaniac. From the beginning of this venture, every deck Mike Guistolise has touched has become a real success. I cannot say this is the nicest deck in the collection because I have more than one favorite, but this is the hottest […]
Perhaps you remember System 6 and the Believe deck. Michael and Devonte strike again with a completely different proposal, a minimalistic deck with geometric cut design: Shards Playing Cards. The deck has been designed by the Italian artist Filippo Marongiu and will be printed, if funded, by the USPCC with at least four metallic inks […]
You have probably seen playing cards made of different materials: wood, carbon fiber, ceramic, … but this is the very first time someone offers a deck made of real stainless steel and cooper: Metal playing cards. Jeff (sorry, no more info) has launched a campaign offering not one but four different decks: two will […]
All the USPCC playing cards fans are in luck. Bill Collins (The Other Look), the creator of the Bicycle Voyager deck, releases his new and ambitious project : erratic Kings. As a poker lover, and due to the current explosion of card designs, Bill had a fresh and creative vision on the standard deck […]
This is a deck inspired on tales, nautical tales: sailors, ghost ships, pirates, sea creatures and superstitions: Bicycle Seven Seas deck. Released by Brain Vessel Studios, illustrated by Jason Kreiger in collaboration with Douglas Koozer and written content by Matthew Fishgold, the design has been carefully made and perfectly express the spirit behind the […]
Eight months after my first announcement, the Pr1me Noir deck is already a reality. Massimo Gramiccioni has confirmed me the launch of Pr1me Noir on December 24th. With a comic style design, the deck depicts the “noir” world of the night. Policemen, attorney, mafia’s killers, bartenders and singers, corrupted politicians and prostitutes are some […]
SteampunkGoggles.com is an amazing website where you can buy fantastic goggles inspired on the Steampunk movement. The website is managed by Dennis Consorte, who runs a small marketing agency. The steampunk projects they do are their testing ground for new marketing techniques they try before offering them to their clients. Dennis wanted to […]
Some months ago I talked about The Origins, an impressive deck inspired on ancient playing cards with a modern design. Over the past year and many hours of work, New Zealand designer and illustrator Rick Davidson has researched and re-imagined the art of 15th and 16th century playing cards to design the […]
After the success of Civil Unrest, his first playing cards project, the designer Robert J. Tomlinson faces a new campaign: Bicycle Global Unrest. Global Unrest is the second in a series of three decks related to military conflicts: Civil Unrest featuring the American Civil War, Global Unrest featuring WWII and Colonial Unrest featuring […]