Stephen W. Brandt (Swabbed Decks) is a tireless designer, illustrator and animator who always offers us imaginative proposals. His latest project under the new seal fig. 23 is called A NOT-SO KOSHER DECK. Behind this curious name you will find a fun campaign inspired by the mid-twentieth century advertisements in which pork-derived meat products were presented by cheerful pigs seemingly ignorant of their fatal fate. The deck is an explosion of joy and color with a vintage style. All…
Almost a year ago Magic Square, a young Chinese company dedicated to the sale of cards and products for magic, successfully launched the first edition of the Silver Sackbut. The fantastic welcome fans gave to it makes them decide to launch a second edition: SILVER SACKBUT v2. The vintage style of grand casinos continues to have a big impact on the card market and, therefore, this new edition offers four more colors and the best card quality. Inspired by Hong…
Collectable Playing Cards have relaunched in Kickstarter some of their previous campaigns. Here is a summary: BICYCLE MAD WORLD Inspired by old classic playing cards, the design has been carefully created like intricately crafted. All the deck has been intentionally aged getting that yellowed aspect and mixing the beauty of the traditional playing cards an some mystery behind the symbols and decorations of the aces and tuck case. The aged aspect has been created using digital techniques to make…
Let’s check the active projects by Collectable Playing Cards in Kickstarter at this moment: BICYCLE VINTAGE CLASSIC Inspired by old classic playing cards, the design has been carefully created like intricately crafted. All the deck has been intentionally aged getting that yellowed aspect and mixing the beauty of the traditional playing cards an some mystery behind the symbols and decorations of the aces and tuck case. The aged aspect has been created using digital techniques to make each card unique. …
Revisiting traditional casino cards, especially those full of history (Jerry’s Nuggets, Golden Nuggets, Caesar Palace, …) has become very popular. That vintage touch of Las Vegas casino cards is appealing to many fans and stimulates the nostalgia of others. Magic Square is a young Chinese dealer devoted to playing cards magic products that has created their first campaign: SILVER SACKBUT. Inspired by Hong Kong’s gambling films from the 90s, Silver Sackbut shows reminiscences of Las Vegas casino cards in the…
Once again, Collectable Playing Cards simultaneously offers us three campaigns on Kickstarter. Let’s check them in chronological order. BICYCLE NATURAL DISASTERS HURRICANE This is the fifth deck of the Natural Disasters series. This time, cards have a design where the light green predominates on a black background. This series designed by Juniardi Satyanagara go through different natural phenomena with catastrophic results. Keeping the traditional court cards, suits and color schemes have been customized to fit with each there….
As in previous occasions, several playing cards produced by the prolific Collectable Playing Cards have been launched at the same time. Therefore, in this article I will tell you their three projects that are now available in Kickstarter with different styles and themes. BICYCLE WILDFIRE This is the second deck of the series of natural disasters that began a few weeks ago with the Volcano deck. Given the theme, Wildfire remembers the first deck in the series,…
Production by Collectable Playing Cards is so plentiful and fast that I could make a weekly newsletter only for their new decks. I’ll use this article to talk about their last three creations that combine different styles and themes. While CPC have always worked with the USPCC to print their decks (most Bicycle branded) and have used Kickstarter for co-funding them, this time there is an interesting novelty I will explain you later. BICYCLE FROST This deck keeps the…
9780 Design is a small company with over 15 years of experience and deep passion for magic and designing. They are not new at all in playing cards design as they are proud to have been working for relevant companies such as Ellusionist, Alakazam and Elite Playing Cards behing behind the design of popular Bicycle decks like Venom, Venom Strike, Dr. Jekyll, Majestic and Grimoire. Fascinated by “Vintage” objects, they wanted to created their own deck of cards and they wanted…
I never get tired of seeing Nat Iwata‘s work. I have featured every of his nice playing cards designs and the last one can’t be less: Vintage Vampire Bicycle Playing Cards. This is a perfect theme for Halloween, as it includes the most popular and bloodthirsty vampires of the literature and cinema. One vampire per each court card, all together in this deck are a tribute of the famous bloodsuckers. Bicycle branded and printed by the USPCC,…