This article is about a dream, a common dream in this “neighborhood”. Giovanni Meroni is a 31 years old web art director, vector illustrator and graphic designer. He spends the day working on e-commerce websites but he likes to work by night in his own illustration projects. This is one of those projects: Evil deck. […]
You might remember the artist Jody Eklund (Fluent, Inc.), illustrator of the cool and unfairly unfunded Hipster deck. He decided to face a new challenge and designed this amazing deck of cards: Golden Spike. Golden Spike is inspired by the 1st Transcontinental Railroad in the USA. The name of the deck comes from the golden spike made […]
Nat Iwata has a very personal designing style and it is quite easy to distinguish his artwork in a deck of cards. After many successful projects, Nat strikes back with his last creation: Bicycle Neverland deck. As a father of three boys, Nat reflects on the loss of magic and illusion of childhood and pays […]
Scott King has brought us many cool decks of cards. After Gentlemen 52 and the successful campaign of Viking decks, a new theme, a new design and some more new decks captivate our senses: MADE. The style of the decks and the maturity of the campaigns created by Crooked Kings have evolved considerably. This is […]
Emily Ross is not a designer, a painter, a sculptress, she is all that and more, just an Artist, with a capital ‘A’. She has been an artist since childhood and this time she has created her own story through a set of cards: Olde Bones: deck of the dead. The design […]
This is a very interesting design for a new deck of cards: Bicycle Coat of Arms. Justin Froyd (Jamm Pakd Cards) got the inspiration from his parents Family Crest on their wall in his childhood home. He thought it would be unique and interesting to have different images inspired by medieval coat […]
Although it had two peace periods of almost 15 years, The Hundred Years’ War lasted 116 years and involved two French and English dynasties. Inspired on this conflict, SPAAAADE&Co. have launched their very first project: Bicycle Hundred Years’ War decks. The designs used for these cards are elegant and elaborated. The aces depict the dynasties […]
Thunee is a popular game originated in South Africa and invented by the Indian workers on the sugar cane plantations. Inspired by this game, a group of entrepeneurs called Trumpmen launches the Bicycle Thunee deck. Making a deck like Thunee requieres not only talent for the design, but also a historic research to understand […]
After a failed campaign of the nice minimalist deck Alpha, Valerio Aversa comes back with a completely different idea: Memento. Memento is inspired on the history of Playing Cards design. This Italian illustrator shows us not only his talent as a creator, but also his passion for playing cards history and evolution. He has […]