Vampire Knight playing cards designed by the South Korean artist DarkAngeL383 (nickname) are dedicated to Vampire Knight anime. Vampire Knight is a manga series written by Matsuri Hino. There were made a twenty-six episode anime adaptation produced by Studio Deen.
© DarkAngeL383
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The King of Spades – Kaname Kuran
Tim Luecke was inspired by Martin Scorsese’s 4-hour Personal Journey through American Movies and decided to design a deck of playing cards featuring influential film directors from the past century, along with stylized versions of some of their most famous shots. So it was natural that the first person in Film Directors Playing Card Deck was Martin Scorsese – the Ace of Spades and the King of Spades.
Tim Luecke is an Intern at Marvel Entertainment, Student at Fordham University and, as he says, “art person at heart“. His project is active. You can see below several finished playing cards (two editions of them).
© Tim Luecke
The King of Spades – Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor and film historian. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors of all time. He founded a non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation in 1990 – the Film Foundation. Then Martin founded the World Cinema Foundation in 2007. He is a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won an Academy Award, a Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award, Silver Lion, Grammy Award, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and DGA Awards.
The Ace of Spades – a stylized version of Martin’s Raging Bull (1980) with Robert De Niro.
Japanese Period playing cards designed by the South African artist Gina-Rae Proxy (gRiM-LW).
[gRiM-LW’s gallery on DeviantART]
“Date Masamune (Became shogunate after his father odered his men to kill him instead of give Date over to the enemy. He only had one eye, that he supposedly pulled out himself to proove a point.)
The woman who married Tokugawa Ieyasu (beheaded and erased from the history books on SUSPICION of treason.)” ~ © Gina-Rae Proxy
Playing cards designed by the British artist Jing Zhang. Such a “bright” interpretation of Arrco standard court cards 🙂 © 2011 Jing Zhang
The King of Hearts
Playing cards designed by the American artist KyleStephenHudson. © KyleStephenHudson
[KyleStephenHudson’s gallery on DeviantART]
All pictures are clickable
Ace of Spades – The Fishwives ©
“A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.” ~ Marie Louise de la Ramée
PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 