This is not the first time I talk about Man Made Games works on playing cards. Here you have their last work: Bicycle 4 Jokers deck. This is a transformation deck where all the characters in the cards (excepting, of course, the joker cards) are jokers. The artwork has been carefully made and […]
Chuck Brodd is a fan of physics and a fan of billiard games. He dreams about opening his own pool hall and gaming center called Phil Pockets. This dream inspired him to create a deck of cards for his customers and friends: Phil Pockets’ Billiard Hall Playing Cards. His deck is a tribute […]
Playing cards collectors know pin-ups decks are very valuable and zombie decks are very popular. Team Zombie have decide to mix both on this crazy, sexy and eerie deck: Zom-B-Girls. I have the chance to talk to Justin Hussain, one of the creators of the deck, and he has told me they were looking […]
Imagine… Michael Jackson playing PacMan, Madonna trying to solve the Rubik’s cube, E.T. watching Mazinger-Z at TV and Rocky Balboa connecting his Nintendo. All would have played poker together if they would have discovered this amazing deck: Bicycle Radical 80’s. Ari Steffen, a Californian photographer and his wife Anna (with the invaluable moral […]
Steward West is a nice guy that wants to make something special. He belongs to TunnelBravo a small graphic design firm with a huge background on re-branding companies designing everything for them. They have decided to re-brand also the classic playing cards in a deck full of angles: the Fanangled deck. This is their […]
Hidden among one million new poker decks in Kickstarter, you can find an European treasure made by The Spiel and called Scopa Playing Cards. Scopa is a classic Italian game that comes from 1522, played with a 40 card deck, 10 cards in four different suits (as the traditional Spanish deck). The suits in […]
Some months ago, I wrote about the black zombie deck. Unfortunatelly, that deck didn’t get funds enough to get printed but since that moment, Brian Lee, from WarPunk Games, has been working to release something more special based on the original project. The result is the Revenant and Vivant Bicycle decks. The decks are […]
Ben Thompson has written and maintained the web site badassoftheweek.com for about 8 years and now, writing about Badasses once a week. His stories about incredible people doing impossible things have become very popular. His partner, Manny Vega, helped him in the visual aspects of the stories and characters and they created the “file […]
Here we have a new Steampunk themed deck of cards. Two decks in fact. Keith E. Weber II and Cara Jones already launched this project some months ago but didn’t reach the funding goal. After studying the suggestions of the community, they have worked hard on the relaunch. They have completely redefined the […]