Decorative playing cards (project) designed by the Russian artist Elena Sokolova in steampunk style.
© Elena Sokolova
Monthly Archives: August 2013
DeviantART: Playing Cards by crystal-infinity
The Ace of Spades and The Jack of Hearts designed by the Canadian artist crystal-infinity (nickname). Interesting incorporation of pips into the design of court cards.
[crystal-infinity’s gallery on DeviantART]
© crystal-infinity
Playing Card Art: Playing Cards by Kristian Olson
Kristian Olson is an American illustrator, designer and fine artist living in Los Angeles, California. He has unusual and exuberant style based on years of experimentation with both digital and traditional media. These are several Olson’s artworks inspired by playing cards. Some of his artworks were included in Ultimate Deck by Stranger and Stranger.
© Kristian Olson
The Five of Diamonds (clickable)
USPCC: Discoverie Deck by Vanishing Inc. Magic and BBM
This article I want to dedicate to the result of collaboration between Vanishing Inc. Magic and Big Blind Media – Discoverie Deck [find it here or here]. There were several articles dedicated to BBM’s playing cards on pages of this site. But Vanishing Inc. Magic is a new guest on the site.
Founded by Joshua Jay and Andi Gladwin, Vanishing Inc. Magic is a magic website that presents different goods related to magic (magic tutorials, books, video lessons, small magic things, playing cards, etc.). These guys make use of their experience to select interesting magic products for their site. And they have enough experience as: a) Joshua Jay is an American performer, lecturer and columnist in MAGIC Magazine (his column – “Talk about Tricks”); b) Andi Gladwin is a UK-based entrepreneur and professional close-up magician. One of the main features of their site is a lot of video demonstrations of products they propose.
The deck is consecrated to The Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot. The first edition was printed in 1584. It was one of the first books written in the English language which made serious mention of magic. The book showed a superstitious public that magicians were not witches, but entertainers with thought-out effects and methods. So Vanishing Inc. Magic and Big Blind Media decided to commemorate such moment in history of magic with these playing cards produced in 2013 (you will be able to commemorate 490 years of the book… but in 2014 😉 ).
The English artist Sam Hayles (DOSE Productions) who traditionally design decks for Big Blind Media had his hand in this deck of playing cards.
The Deck: 52 playing cards + 2 different Jokers + 1 information card + 1 illustrated card. Poker size. Playing cards were printed by USPCC on Bicycle Stock and have the Air-Cushion finish.
pictures of the tuck case are clickable
DeviantART: The Queen (of Clubs) by Queen Mari
The Queen (of Clubs) desgned by the American artist Queen Mari (queenmari) as a business card.
[queenmari’s gallery on DeviantART]
© Queen Mari (queenmari)
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See other playing card projects on DeviantART (Category: “DeviantART”).
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PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 