A collaborated 54 deck of playing cards. Each individual card has a unique image created by the number or letter (face cards) of the card. The unifying theme is the Helvetica font used as the base of each design along with other shapes, fonts, or other design elements. Faces of cards designed by Junli Kato. Box and back-side of the cards designed by Peter Gutierrez. Box and cards all hand-crafted and assembled.
Aquatic playing cards designed by Nicole Avena – the designer from Florida (United States). This card deck exhibits a mixed abstraction of both realism and collage. While the back of the deck is intended to encourage an ocean, the photographic element of the torn pieces, range from dark to light, from sea bottom to surface. The illustration is then broken up by undulating white lines, acting as the white crest of ocean waves.
She broke the suites up into 4 phylum of sea creatures: Mollusca, Chordates, Cnidarian, and Arthropods. The symbols of the coral, clam barnacle, and puffer fish denote the most basic creatures of each phylum. As the incremental value of the face cards increase, so does the threatening nature of each creature in that phylum.
© 2013 Nicole Avena
Royalty Typographic playing cards are designed by Chris Finn. The main challenge of this project was to create a visual system that provides consistency through the whole set of cards. They are a consistent and solid group because they share visual features that unite them. The theme of the deck based on the design of the typeface (Centaur) is “Royalty”. Chris chose the colors Ruby, Emerald, Sapphire and Gold to represent the jewels and metals commonly found around royalty.
PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 