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Bēhance: Medley’s Playing Cards by Deeksha Kumar

Medley’s playing cards designed by the Indian artist Deeksha Kumar. She created them for the company to be given away with bottles of Medley’s bourbon on the occasion of Diwali. It was a limited release.

Diwali or Deepavali (popularly known as the “festival of lights”) is a five-day Hindu festival and an official holiday in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Malaysia, Singapore and Fiji. It falls between mid-October and mid-November.

Diwali involves the lighting of small clay lamps filled with oil to signify the triumph of good over evil. People keep on these lamps during the night and clean their houses in order to make the goddess Lakshmi feel welcome. Also they blast firecrackers as they believe that it drives away evil spirits. All the celebrants wear new clothes and share sweets and snacks with family members or friends during this holiday.

Wooden Tuck Case

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Posted by Collector on 04.09.2013 in Behance, Deck of Playing Cards

Tags: art, Baraja, Behance, bourbon, cartes à jouer, design, Diwali, игральные карты, India, Lakshmi, Medley's, naipes, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte

Playing Card Art: Film Directors Playing Cards by Tim Luecke

03 Sep

Tim Luecke was inspired by Martin Scorsese’s 4-hour Personal Journey through American Movies and decided to design a deck of playing cards featuring influential film directors from the past century, along with stylized versions of some of their most famous shots. So it was natural that the first person in Film Directors Playing Card Deck was Martin Scorsese – the Ace of Spades and the King of Spades.

Tim Luecke is an Intern at Marvel Entertainment, Student at Fordham University and, as he says, “art person at heart“. His project is active. You can see below several finished playing cards (two editions of them).

© Tim Luecke

The King of Spades – Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor and film historian. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors of all time. He founded a non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation in 1990 – the Film Foundation. Then Martin founded the World Cinema Foundation in 2007. He is a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won an Academy Award, a Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award, Silver Lion, Grammy Award, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and DGA Awards.

The Ace of Spades – a stylized version of Martin’s Raging Bull (1980) with Robert De Niro.

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Posted by Collector on 03.09.2013 in Playing Card Art, Playing Cards and Cinema

Tags: art, Baraja, cartes à jouer, cinema, игральные карты, film directors, Hitchcock, Hollywood, Martin Scorsese, movie playing cards, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte

DeviantART: Japanese Period Playing Cards by Gina-Rae Proxy

02 Sep

Japanese Period playing cards designed by the South African artist Gina-Rae Proxy (gRiM-LW).

[gRiM-LW’s gallery on DeviantART]

“Date Masamune (Became shogunate after his father odered his men to kill him instead of give Date over to the enemy. He only had one eye, that he supposedly pulled out himself to proove a point.)

The woman who married Tokugawa Ieyasu (beheaded and erased from the history books on SUSPICION of treason.)” ~ © Gina-Rae Proxy