Card Experiment releases their last deck: Utopia. Utopia has been designed by the Thai Tarin Yuangtrakul (Tab), a talented artist, illustrator, and graphic designer Utopia is, in fact, a metaphor about the self-knowledge and the identity with a twist of surrealism. This nice and completely customized deck has these features: Printed on Premium Aristocrat® […]
Some weeks ago, you had the opportunity to read about Foto Grafis deck project, playing cards made of cool photos and with a very original system of card recognition that borrows from the digital displays of our modern cameras – that of the battery status indicator. On September 30th, award winning photographer […]
Some creators have lived the frustrating experience of offering original, talented and interesting cards that cannot become real due to high funding goals required by the minimum run of 2500 units set the USPCC to print a deck. This frustration has led some artists to print their decks in other companies without such restriction. […]
From the Wild West, a group of legendary characters inspire the Bicycle Wanted Dead or Alive deck. There is a story behind each of the characters present in these cards. Wyatt Earp, Annie Oakley, Doc Holliday or General Custer appear in some of the court cards of these 52 cards completely customized by the […]
Wayang kulit is a traditional shadow puppet theater from Indonesia. This deck is inspired on that artistic representation: the Believe deck. Although it is not easy to find a deep relation between the ancient puppets and the artwork in the deck, I have to admit that this deck is really nice. The intricate design […]
“From the North, from cold and windy Russia comes the Winter Deck. Winter is cold, dark and dangerous in the places this deck comes from, but there is a strange beauty in this danger. Beauty of a hunting predator, deadly but amazing.” Winter Deck is a custom highly-creative deck of playing cards designed by Ultramarine […]
Taylor Eshelman is Tesh, and he is the creator of a new Steampunk inspired set of playing cards: Bicycle Tinker Deck. The Tinker Deck is a tribute to the Industrial Revolution and some of the key people in history who made it work. It’s a relic of a time long past, a time that still […]
Adam Dopps is the founder of Drink Deal Daily, the Daily Deal website that specializes in Coupons for Cocktails. What do beer, bars and playing cards have in common? The answer is: Everything! That’s why Drink Deal Daily has created the Bars of Phoenyx Fantasy deck. These are a collectable limited addition deck of […]
Robert J. Tomlinson studied graphic design in Pennsylvania. He worked several years within the newspaper industry as a graphic designer and later as editor. Newspapers in small towns don’t pay very well… so he went to work at a local factory where his official job is a Quality Control Group Leader but he is […]