An American Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design (Cum Laude from California State University, Sacramento), Sean Voegeli, designed playing card artwork devoted to the Native American culture. He combined patterns found in it with some modern design and illustration. Some queens have very stylish decollates 🙂
© Sean Voegeli
Native Playing Cards by Sean Voegeli: Tuck Case
Steve Abercrombie, an American artist, designed these Gill Sans Typographic Playing Cards as a project for SCAD’s (Savannah College of Art and Design) typography course. The task was to create a full set of playing cards based on a specific typeface – classic type of typographic playing cards. Steve used Gill Sans typeface. Playing cards weren’t produced.
© Steve Abercrombie 2014
Gill Sans Typographic Playing Cards: Tuck Case
Bicycle Nouveau Playing Cards was the first playing card project by Bona Fide Playing Cards on Kickstarter. They decided to print it with the United States Playing Card Company (USPCC). Unfortunately, people misappreciated this interesting deck, and it wasn’t funded. Bona Fide Playing Cards has taken into account some organizational and financial peculiarities of the Kickstarter playing card campaigns and restarted it… luckily without detriment to art and meaning content of this nice deck (only Eleanor of Aquitaine substituted Celtic Queen, Boudica – the Queen of Clubs).
Nouveau decks are inspired by the historical and mythological heroes and heroines traditionally featured in the French playing cards since the 16th century. As for the art style and design, Bona Fide Playing Cards wanted to pay tribute to the philosophical and artistic trend Art Nouveau, promoted and popularized in France and contemporary to the birth of the first Bicycle Playing Cards in the late 19th century. There will be two limited (this is about the first run) editions of the playing cards: Nouveau and Nouveau Turquoise Playing Cards
The decks are planned to be printed by the Expert Playing Card Company (EPCC).
Vadim Smolenskiy designed his second version of Lumberjacks deck – Bicycle the Lumberjacks Playing Cards 2nd Ed. The first edition of Bicycle the Lumberjacks Playing Cards was successfully funded and produced in 2013. This time playing cards will be full of colours. This word comes from a bygone era (before 1945 in the United States). It names workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees for ultimate processing into forest products.
The deck is planned to be printed by the United States Playing Card Company (USPCC).
PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 