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Bēhance: Red Hot Chili Peppers Playing Cards by Gurleen Kaur

Red Hot Chili Peppers playing cards (project) designed by the Indian artist Gurleen Kaur. There are illustrations based on famous songs by the band Red Hot Chili Peppers on these playing cards.

Red Hot Chili Peppers (also commonly known as the “Chili Peppers” or abbreviated as RHCP) are an American rock band formed in 1983. The group’s musical style primarily consists of rock with an emphasis on funk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk rock and psychedelic rock.

Each number card or court card of all four suits has almost the same picture. Pictures of “black” suits have black backgrounds and pictures of “red” suits have red backgrounds.

Ace (Michael “Flea” Balzary) – Jack (Josh Klinghoffer) – Queen (Chad Smith) – King (Anthony Keidis)

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Posted by Collector on 15.09.2013 in Behance, Playing Card Art, Playing Cards and Music

Tags: art, cartes à jouer, игральные карты, music, music playing cards, naipes, Playing Card Art, playing card collecting, playing cards, Red Hot Chili Peppers, rock band, Spielkarte

DeviantART: Playing Card Aces

15 Sep

Several sets of playing card aces from different artists on DeviantART.

1. Aces designed by the Swedish artist © Håkan Andersson (huke):

The Ace of Hearts

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Bicycle Samurai Playing Cards by CC Éditions & Marchand de Trucs

15 Sep

Bicycle Samurai Playing Cards [First Edition] are the heroes of this blog today. I was able to find them on JP Playing Cards site (find a 10% discount below). This deck is dedicated to defenders of persons in the upper ranks of Japan society – the Samurai (the middle and upper echelons of the warrior class).

Playing cards were produced by the French company CC Éditions & Marchand de Trucs and printed by USPCC in 2011. The deck was available on a special site. Now it is sold out and can be found only on the secondary market.

Playing cards were designed by the English artist Sam Hayles (DOSE Productions). Readers of this blog should know him as this is the fourth his design featured on pages of the blog. This deck was designed for magic practice. So it has a minimum of customization (a custom tuck case, the Ace of Spades, Jokers and backs).

The deck: 52 playing cards + 3 Jokers (two of them are identical) + 1 blank card. Poker size. All court cards and number cards are Bicycle standard cards. Playing cards were printed on Bicycle Stock and have Air-Cushion Finish.

the pictures of the tuck case are clickable

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Bēhance: Playing Cards by Terrina Bibb

13 Sep

52 drawn playing cards (project) featuring 52 different comedians were created by the British artist Terrina Bibb.

All pictures are clickable

SPADES

The Ace of Spades – Lee Evans

The Two of Spades – Lee Mack

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Posted by Collector on 13.09.2013 in Behance, Playing Card Art

Tags: art, Baraja, Behance, cartes à jouer, comedians, comedy, design, игральные карты, humor, naipes, Playing Card Art, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte

Playing Card Art: Music Playing Cards by Sydney James

13 Sep

Several playing cards designed by Sydney James are dedicated to different musicians and singers.

“I started this series because I wanted to pay true homage to the musicians that have inspired movements, modified cultures and made music history. “Once I started the paintings, the concept of the combination of playing card designs with the likeness of each artist made more sense. The musicians I chose to paint have already been deemed icons. I just married those icons with the existing iconography of the modern day playing card.” ~ © 2007 Sydney James

I can confidently recognize only several persons. You can help with your comments.

The King of Spades

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