“Card flourishing is a visual art. That’s why the biggest question we constantly asked ourselves in the development of this deck was this: how do we make all your card flourishes look even better? That’s why we developed the Virtuoso deck with a concept we call “Adaptive Aesthetics” ~ The Virts
ART-O-MAT® are retired cigarette vending machines converted to vend art. There are 100 active machines throughout USA and beyond (find a machine near you). All ART-O-MAT® machines are created by Clark Whittington, select ART-O-MAT® artists, and Artists in Cellophane.
These playing cards were designed to commemorate the six machines installed in The Cosmopolitan casino and hotel in Las Vegas. The cards are printed on 80 lb archival paper, everything is cut out by hand and all the corners are rounded with a semi circle cutter. Every deck is signed, numbered, and dated. Sales of this edition playing cards has the express consent of ART-O-MAT® and Artists in Cellophane with a percentage of sales going back to the organization.
The producer of the Ritual deck (Elite Playing Cards) that was successfully funded on Kickstarter in October 2012 (and printed) decided to produce a new deck of playing cards – The Bicycle® Divine.
Almost all Theory11’s playing cards (all printed by USPCC) have standard court and number cards with only custom The Aces of Spades, Jokers, back designs of playing cards and tuck cases. But tuck cases are really nice:
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Ordinary Edition (unlimited edition).
Many of Theory11’s playing cards (all printed by USPCC) have standard court and number cards with only custom The Aces of Spades, Jokers, back designs of playing cards and tuck cases. This article is about some of them.
• Bicycle Heritage Series (limited edition – 5000).
“Classic and timeless design. A unique part of Bicycle’s history.
The Heritage Design Series includes four historic back designs: Acorn, Lotus, Nautic, and Automobile No. 2. This set of four is featured in a vintage banknote-style bag made from 100% natural and biodegradable jute twine.
PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 