Some decks of playing cards produced by Lo Scarabeo (Italy) have already been mentioned on pages of this blog. This post dedicated to another deck by Lo Scarabeo – Liberty Playing Cards.
Art by Antonella Castelli is featured on these playing cards. The artist was inspired by works of the Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha.
Art Nouveau, Liberty, Floral Style, Modern Style, Jugendstil: these are the various definitions of a single style which positioned itself in Europe and the United States around 1900, especially in the field of applied arts (such as illustration) and architecture. Its characteristic floral, stylized and allusively symbolic curved lines which develop into asymmetrical and two-dimensional decorations also forcefully entered the world of production in a profitable encounter between industry and art. This splendid deck of cards pays tribute to the Liberty utopia with the elegant and light graphics of this style.
The deck:
- 52 different illustrated playing cards;
- 2 different Jokers;
- 1 ad card;
- 5 information cards (traditionally for Lo Scarabeo in English, Italian, Spain, French and German);
- Bridge size;
- Printed on casino cardboard with smooth finish.
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Tags: Alphonse Mucha, Antonella Castelli, art, Art Nouveau, carte da gioco, cartes à jouer, игральные карты, Floral Style, Liberty, naipes, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte
Several playing cards designed by the American artist, Emily J. Sampson (EJSCreations), as a project. This is a very interesting variation of symmetry in court cards. Such court cards can be nice for transformation decks.
The idea of the project was to design four playing cards on the basis of some fairy- or folk tale. She chose the Russian folk tale “The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship” (“Летучий корабль”).
Some brief description of the story for better understanding of the playing cards you can find here. Or you can see the International Emmy award winning British stop-motion adaptation of this folk tale***
The King of Hearts is the Tsar who had to swallow his pride.
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The American artist kikuneko designs all female card deck dedicated to her fictional heroes. © kikuneko
The King of Spades
The girl on top is Adelaide, a feline demon who collects starlight in her glass wings. The girl on the bottom is Elysium, my rabbit demonspawn assassin/wind mage.
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Joe DiLeonardo designed these playing cards as an entry for SuperPunch’s James Bond Art Jam, He figured a collector’s edition luxury playing cards seemed like a good idea, with each one of the suits for one of his favorite Bond actors, one of their Bond girls and one of their villains. The cards (project) should have a matte finish on the backgrounds, while the suit, value and art should have a glossy finish.
© Joe DiLeonardo
Kings
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Tags: 007, art, cartes à jouer, cinema, design, игральные карты, James Bond, mazzo di carte, naipes, Playing Card Art, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte
King of Fighters Playing Cards (project) designed by llewxam888. Each card has its own fighter.
© llewxam888
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Llewxam888’s gallery on DeviantART: http://llewxam888.deviantart.com/gallery/
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See other playing card projects on DeviantART (Category: “DeviantART”).
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PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 