Atipus (Barcelona) is the Spanish design studio founded in 1998. Since then they have been working across a variety of media and fields, ranging from brand identity to packaging or web services. 5ZAR8BHKW2B4
The studio created special playing cards in 2010. In order to celebrate summer vacations and as a gift for their clients and collaborators, they illustrated a poker pack of 52 cards (inspired by the 50’s). This card game is within a series of traditional games (Unplugged collection) that the studio delivers since 2009 to enliven the Augusts’ vacations without relying on technology and electricity.
Illustrators: Guadalupe González, Javier Suárez and Gerard Oró.
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Pictures for court cards designed by the Georgian artist Anna Shukhaeva. © 2007 Anna Shukhaeva
The King of hearts – Belobog
Belobog (White God) is a reconstructed Slavic deity of light and Sun, the counterpart of dark and cursed Chernobog (Black God).
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The American artist Chi Bui used quite simple but elegant approach towards designing his playing card – The Two of Hearts. Roots and branches cloaked in love 🙂 © 2012 Chi Bui
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See other playing card projects on Bēhance (Category: “Bēhance”).
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This was orginally from a project Amanda Small did in her design class, where the objective was to create playing cards. She decided to design playing card based on her favorite generes of music. Classics from the generes of R&B, Soul, and Motown were constently being played through out her house growing up. So Amanda has a strong connection with such music as it has an influence on her creative work.
The artist used animals to reflect the style of music she loves. In her interpretation, a turtle is slow but is not in a rush to get anywhere. It goes with the flow which to her is what a lot of these classic Soul and R&B songs represent. These playing cards were all drawn by hand , scanned , and painted in Photoshop.
© 2013 Amanda Small
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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
PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 