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These playing cards were designed by Thorbjörn Ingason for the Icelandic creative agency – Islenska. Islenska was hired by Icelandair (a customer-oriented travel service company in Iceland). Icelandair was interested in a deck of playing cards for their international flights. This nice deck was available on Icelandair’s international flights in 2010.
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Jared Nickerson started this deck as a client based playing card project but once he realized the scope of the work he decided to bring a few other artists on board. Finally this deck was designed by Jared Nickerson, Cuypi, ZombieCorp and Niark.
This project was started in 2009 and is still in production. No word yet on when these will become available to purchase.
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The Colour Printing Plant (USSR, Russian Federation) started to print these playing cards in 1973 and finished to print them in the early 1980s. The plant itself was closed in 2004.
The deck designed by Viktor Mihajlovich Sveshnikov. Playing cards are based on the theme of opera scenes (sometimes they are named Theatre Playing Cards).
The deck: 52 playing cards + 2 Jokers.
Dimension of playing cards: 58×90 mm – 2.28×3.54 [standard bridge size: 2.25×3.5 in – 57×89 mm]
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Be careful with orders. These guys acknowledge the receipt of your e-mail (in English). But they never answer.
Playing Cards produced by CircusBC (Kuwait).
All Kings, Queens and Jacks are the same. Their back design – ?
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PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 