Moonshine Playing Cards [22 of February 2013]
Sultanate (Mamluk Reborn) Playing Cards [planned to be on Kickstarter]
Bicycle Truth Garden Playing Cards [16 of February 2013 in China]
Demon Deck [Kickstarter – 1^st of March 2013 – wasn’t launched on Kickstarter March 1, 2013]
Bicycle Favole Playing Cards [1^st of March 2013]
Bicycle Club Tattoo Playing Cards [1^st of April 2013]
Bicycle Everyday Zombie Playing Cards [1^st of May 2013]
Bicycle Escape Deck [unknown]
Takefu Playing Cards [unknown]

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INKJAVA Playing Cards by Ïve Bastrash

09 Feb

This deck of Playing Cards designed by talanted Canadian artist Ïve Bastrash.

“The very first and sublime playing card deck released by the Inkjava card shoppe! Discover four fantastic worlds through 54 cards featuring artworks emerging right from the imaginative mind of artist Ïve Bastrash. Sail the Seven Seas with its mythical aquatic creatures; cross the desert dunes and avoid its mischievous fauna; explore the dungeon of a medieval kingdom with its lunatic populace and scout through the jungles of a lost world without falling into the claws of the carnivorous indigenes! Suitable for every card game and players of all ages ready for an homeric voyage!” ~ Inkjava.

INKJAVA-Playing-Cards

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Posted by Collector on 09.02.2013 in Deck of Playing Cards

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Mr Mead’s ‘Dark Suits’ Playing Cards

07 Feb

“Tom Mead is an artist who admires the surreal and otherworldly sides of art. He uses a traditional drawing technique working with dip pen and ink.

Tom’s terror and intrigue for animals dressed as humans stems from his memories of Reginald Mills’ 1976 ballet film, “The Tales of Beatrix Potter”. Deciding to embrace his fear Tom has recently found a passion for more the traditional artistic techniques and has developed his ink based style to create dark inhuman characters blending the animal, human and mechanic, a super species he nicknames ‘Bio-Mechanical Anthropomorphism’.

Tom’s practice is inspired by artists such as Koji Morimoto, Remi Wyart and Shaun Tan. He is also highly influenced by the surrealist American contemporary art scene.

Working from the eminent Jamaica Street Studios in Stokes Croft, Bristol, Tom creates artwork for folk tales, album covers and poster designs alongside producing his large-scale works. He also launched a new edition of playing cards, each adorned with one of his characters.

Mr Mead launched a new edition of playing cards each adorned with one of his characters in April 2011.

Mr Mead has produced a new edition of playing cards, with each card in the pack adorned with one of his ‘Bio-mechanical anthropomorphic’ characters. The characters are grouped by family into the four suits, Birds adopt the Hearts, Horned Beasts the Diamonds, Cats the Spades and Foxes the Clubs.” ~ Antlers Gallery