A deck of playing cards inspired by Harry Kellar’s famous Whispering Imps, hand drawn by illustrator Mark Stutzman. These are planned to be printed by USPCC.
Category Archives: Deck of Playing Cards
Bēhance: Typographic Playing Cards by Junli Kato & Peter Gutierrez
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.
USPCC: WhiteKnuckle Playing Cards by Brett A. Jones
These decks are one of the most interesting decks printed by USPCC. All custom – even pips on each number card. Playing cards designed by Australian artist Brett A. Jones.
The distinguishing feature of the English standard playing card is that the Jacks are lansquenets – mighty warriors or foot soldiers. With such a rich and illustrious subject matter, nothing needed to be added that wasn’t already there. All that was needed was to give each of the characters dimension and expression. Nothing was done to disturb the basic foundation of the deck. Rather, conscious decisions were made to preserve and extend the tradition. Each and every card in the WhiteKnuckle Deck is a unique hand rendering in keeping with the style. Where ambiguity gave way to artistic license, reference was made to its ancestor, the French Rouen design.
The deck: 52 playing cards + 2 Jokers + Blank card + Information card. Poker size.
There were three editions of this deck. The decks edition and year of release can be identified on the bottom of the box (e.g. the first edition deck was brought out in 2010 so the numbers would be 1-10).
The First Edition (these were published in Sydney in March, 2010).
Several 1st edition rare decks are still available on Brett’s site.
Kickstarter: Bicycle Calaveras Playing Cards by Chris Ovdiyenko
Calaveras brings the Day of the Dead to a custom deck of playing cards. All original and inspired by art from the turn of the century. Chris Ovdiyenko is creating a deck of playing cards that’s true in spirit and design to the roots of the Day of the Dead (el Día de los Muertos). The deck is planned to be printed by USPCC. And it also has agreed to let Chris use the Bicycle® logo from their original 1895 “Expert Back” deck
Kickstarter: Deck of the Extraordinary Voyages by BentCastle Workshops
This is a beautifully illustrated and designed Steampunk-styled playing card deck produced by BentCastle Workshops (Chris Pallace – illustrator and Ben Crenshaw – designer) for card players, gamers, magicians and fans of Jules Verne. BentCastle Workshops is the successful producer of Pippoglyph playing cards, Pegleg Pete’s Deck of Royal Rogues, Deck of the Living Dead.
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PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 