Jack Brutus Penny is a nonsense writer, illustrator and English teacher based in Japan. His experience in the artistic world has led him to create written and printed works in which respect for nature is a common denominator. Jack leaps now to the card design world with a completely original and different deck: CULTURAE ANIMALIS. This is one of those projects that you have to read slowly to be able to squeeze all its juice. The talent and the enormous…
Ehsan Ziafati is a versatile artist always in search of new creative challenges. His extraordinary vision of art as an individual and collective experience has enlisted in the adventure of creating a new deck of cards: JEWELRY BOX. The insects fascinate the artist and that is the inspiration of these cards. Encouraged by his friends in a game night, Ehsan decided to create his own deck using original illustrations, made entirely by hand with watercolors and in which the protagonists…
Less than two weeks ago I was talking about MUERTOS Playing Cards by Natalia Silva. The campaign was successfully funded and Natalia brings us the second part of this series dedicated to traditional Mexican celebration but with a very original style: MUERTOS ANIMALS EDITION. The inspiration and the vector and colorful style are still present in this deck replacing the classic human skulls by those of fun animals. Dark purple backgrounds, elaborated designs full of details and…
Many followers of Natalia Silva claimed for it and here it is. In her previous campaign, The Other Kingdom, Natalia created a beautiful deck where birds were decorative elements inside very elegant and refined designs. Furthermore, she released during the campaign two limited editions with a more luxurious presentation. The Bird Edition used the same designs as the original deck while in the other, the Animal Edition, birds were replaced by other animals. Natalia wanted all her fans could enjoy the new…
If Kickstarter is already the most popular crowdfunding platform among playing cards fans, the growing number of projects seems to begin to overcome the demand and campaigns that would have been widely funded in the past thanks to their artistic or creative quality, have many difficulties to do their goal. In this new scenario, creators look for alternative funding strategies to avoid wasting the hard work involved in creating a deck. I have spoken before about these funding strategies but one of…
Adam Eivy is a nocturnal artist… He has a day job and dedicates the night to his creative passion. He is not only an artist but also a beloved husband and father. And it is his nice daughter, Ilya, who inspired Adam to create this new deck: BEETLE ROYALE Playing Cards. Ilya loves nature and bugs, especially beetles, that’s why Adam decided to begin drawing beetles two years ago, thinking those bugs could make a unique deck of cards… And…
Going on with an established style of outstanding illustrations and a great service and quality, Noir Arts launches a new campaign: ANIMAGIQUE. With a fantastic inspiration of “humanized” animals, the illustrations of this new deck, made by Denis Sirotinin, are a show of talent at the service of good taste and detail. Coats of arms, magnificent animals represented as kings and knights, colorful designs and an interesting mix of elements taken from traditional designs of worldwide playing cards. Everything is integrated…
Spades are Canines, hearts are Felines, clubs are Ursines (bears) and the diamonds are Vulpines (foxes). This is the original idea of this deck, designed by James Augustine with the name Pelted Primacy Bicycle deck. This is an interesting deck made in a colorful comic art and depicting anthropomorphic animals for the court cards and new designs of pips in 52 completely customized cards. If funded, the deck will be printed by USPCC under Bicycle brand. You can get…
Reinterpreting the traditional poker cards, but taking care of them, the classic court cards are converted into groups of wild animals in a new deck by Brett Duddo: the Wilderness Bicycle deck. Lions (diamonds), dragons (clubs), deer (hearts) and wolves (spades), designed by Anita Birgány personify the different court cards of this special and interesting deck, that will be printed by the USPCC under Bicycle brand. The castle back, drawn by Eleanor Lutz, will be printed in…