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Card Experiment: Utopia Playing Cards

Card Experiment (Bicycle Asura Playing Cards, Babel Playing Cards) is going to release its third deck on their site – Utopia Playing Cards

“Utopia: A seemingly perfect and ideal place. When ideals collide, Utopia descends into Dystopia. The Utopia deck toys with the notions of loss of self and identity as well as conformity using highly structured and similar arrangements dosed with a touch of surrealistic imagery.” ~ Card Experiment

Playing card were designed by Tarin Yuangtrakul (Tab). He is an artist, illustrator, and graphic designer from Bangkok, Thailand. His illustration style is rough and abrasive in the most beautiful, intricate way. Full of movement, emotion and aggressive lines, Tarin creates his renderings combining both traditional and digital media.

The deck:

Printed on Premium Aristocrat® stock with Magic Finish;
Featuring custom designed backs, aces, jokers, court cards & pips;
Metallic inks;
Poker size;
Printed by the US Playing Card Company;
2,500 – 3,000 decks will be printed.

Utopia Playing Cards: Tuck Case

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Posted by Collector on 03.10.2013 in Deck of Playing Cards, USPCC

Tags: art, Card Experiment, cartes à jouer, design, игральные карты, naipes, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte, surrealism, Tarin Yuangtrakul, United States Playing Card Company, utopia

D&D: Fulton’s October Playing Cards

02 Oct

“October 1st, as the Harvest Moon Rise, pranks are pulled by those in guise. Fulton returns back from the dead, new ideas spring from his head. He brings life to our favorite time of year, with 52 spirits for you to fear.

The frightfully fun and whimsically illustrated artwork of Steven Noble will send shivers down your spine.

Packaged inside the box you will find one tricked out deck of playing cards. Everything from the back design, ace of spades, jokers, and court cards were customized.” ~ Dan and Dave Playing Card Co.

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Posted by Collector on 02.10.2013 in D&D, Deck of Playing Cards, USPCC

Tags: art, Baraja, Brad Fulton, cartes à jouer, Dan and Dave, игральные карты, Halloween, playing card collecting, playing cards, skull, Spielkarte, United States Playing Card Company

D&D: Vintage Plaid Playing Cards

01 Oct

Dan-and-Dave-logo Today read several words about another decks produced by two brothers Dan and Dave (The D&D Playing Card Co.). This is a set (pair) of playing card decks – Vintage Plaid Playing Cards: Casual California Blue Deck and Striking Arizona Red Deck. Two decks from two brothers… it is quite symbolic 🙂 Both decks were printed by USPCC in 2011.

These are not the first decks from D&D mentioned on pages of this blog. You can find other decks and additional information about the D&D Playing Card Co. on it.

“For us, these cards bring back fond memories of childhood camping trips with our grandfather. Watching him pitch a tent, reel in a fish, and bring fire ablaze under a starry night were magical moments we never forgot. In honor of those days by the river and nights under the stars, we are proud to offer these new playing cards.” ~ Dan and Dave Bucks.

The deck: 52 playing cards + 2 Jokers + 2 Information cards. Poker size. Playing cards are printed on a premium stock and have a Cambric finish (“embossed”).

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Posted by Collector on 01.10.2013 in D&D, Deck of Playing Cards, USPCC

Tags: art, cardistry, cartes à jouer, Dan and Dave, игральные карты, magic, naipes, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte, United States Playing Card Company, Vintage Plaid

Playing Cards and Cartoons (Jokes): Rubes Playing Cards by Leigh Rubin

25 Sep

Leigh Rubin is an American cartoonist. He began his cartooning career in 1978 by establishing his own greeting card company, Rubes Publications, featuring early renditions of his animal characters. Then he designed a popular greeting card series with characters having the shape of musical notes and published it as his first cartoon collection, Notable Quotes, in 1981. NMRH7SQEBAEW

His first serious collaboration with newspapers started in 1984. His friend was the editor of Antelope Valley Press in Palmdale (California, US). He asked Rubin about writing a daily comic for the newspaper. Now Leigh’s cartoons can be found in more than 400 newspapers worldwide.

In 2009 Leigh celebrated the 25th anniversary of Rubes® with the publication of The Wild and Twisted World of Rubes, a “best of” collection which contains 240 of his personal favourites out of over 9,500 cartoons.

Today we are going to see the official playing card deck featuring wacky cow cartoons from the twisted world of Leigh – Rubes Playing Cards (Rubes® is a registered trademark of Leigh Rubin).

The deck: 52 playing cards with different cartoons + 2 Jokers. Poker size. The deck is manufactured and distributed under license by Aquarius. Playing cards were printed (in China) on cardboard and have some kind of an embossed finish (looks like linen).

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Posted by Collector on 25.09.2013 in Deck of Playing Cards, Playing Cards and Cartoons (Jokes)

Tags: art, Baraja, cartes à jouer, Cartoon Playing Cards, cartoons, игральные карты, joke, Leigh Rubin, Notable Quotes, playing card collecting, playing cards, Rubes, Spielkarte

Kickstarter: Bicycle Steampunk Pirates Playing Cards by Nat Iwata

24 Sep

Nat Iwata decided to create a companion deck to his Bicycle Steampunk Cthulhu Deck (you have a chance to get it within this Kickstarter project). This artist likes to cross different themes in one deck of playing cards. This time pirates will be put in a steampunk world. The deck is planned to be printed by USPCC.