Playing cards designed by the Hungarian artist Daniel Nagy in 2008 as an univercity project. The deck touches upon the issue of religion. © 2008 Daniel Nagy
Playing cards designed by the Hungarian artist Daniel Nagy in 2008 as an univercity project. The deck touches upon the issue of religion. © 2008 Daniel Nagy
Posted by Collector on 13.08.2013 in Behance, Playing Card Art
Tags: art, Baraja, Behance, cartes à jouer, design, игральные карты, Hungary, nun, Playing Card Art, playing card collecting, playing cards, priest, religion, religious playing cards, Spielkarte
I am glad to state that “Playing Cards + Art = Collecting” blog celebrates half a year of its existence on WordPress. Time flies. I remember the first month of this blog on WordPress and its first 10,000 visits. That attention strengthened my desire to go on with this blog. Writing about its third month on WordPress, I had to admit a constant interest of people in it and their wide geography. As a result of such interest this blog got 50,000 visits by mid June, 2013. Now half a year… What has happened with the blog? What changes have been made? Yes, they have been made as this blog develops and tries to perfect itself. Let’s see…
First of all, suggestions of its readers were heard and this blog got a new decent address – http://playingcardcollector.net. Old one (https://playingcardcollector.wordpress.com) is also active. So now you can use both of them depending on your preferences. All old links will work automatically with new address as well as with old one.
I guess people are not indifferent about this blog as they propose to improve it. And I am pleased to see their growing interest in it – 10,000 visits by mid March, 2013; 50,000 visits by mid June, 2013… and as a result of six-monthly efforts – more than 77,000 visits. Yes, this blog has been interesting for people more than 77,000 times.
I try to post interesting (useful) information concerning decks of playing cards, playing card art (design) and art inspired by playing cards. And I see that people are really involved with my posts. Readers visit this blog each day. March 30, 2013 isn’t already the hottest day for this blog as it got 1,229 visits on July 17, 2013 (I have to think that at least one person didn’t have a working compass that day 😉 ).
This blog was visited 7,000 times during the first month of its existence on WordPress. 17,993 times it was visited during this July (this time seven persons happened to be without compasses 🙂 ). So it should mean 580 (average) views per day and the serious growth in popularity of this blog (more than twice).
Writing about the third month of this blog on WordPress, I expressed my hope to see new readers from around the globe. My hopes come true. This blog has found new friends from new places. And I once again hope that it will find new readers from different parts of the Earth. There are still some places unreached by this blog. This disappointing mistake should be fixed 🙂 .
At this moment this blog has been visited by readers from such places of the world (in alphabetical order):

*** Please note that I used flags and names as they are given by the internal statistics of WordPress. So I am sorry for any possible discrepancy with official flag or name. As I understand the statistics of WordPress operates only with places which have their own ccTLD. It does not operate with human settlements.
Posted by Collector on 04.08.2013 in This Blog about This Blog
Tags: art, Baraja, blogging, carta, carte, cartes à jouer, collecting, design, игральные карты, mazzo di carte, naipes, playing card collecting, playing cards, Playing Cards + Art = Collecting, Spielkarte
The Queen of Hearts designed by the Philippine artist Sinagtala (nickname). [sinagtala’s gallery on DeviantART]
© sinagtala
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See other playing card projects on DeviantART (Category: “DeviantART”).
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Posted by Collector on 20.07.2013 in DeviantART, Playing Card Art, The Queen of Hearts
Tags: art, Baraja, cartes à jouer, design, DeviantART, игральные карты, naipes, Playing Card Art, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte, The Queen of Hearts
These playing cards were designed by the Polish artist, Roksana (NemezisAmaranth) and are dedicated to Greek Gods. This is an interesting combination of aged backgrounds and figures of court cards painted in a specific art style. The position of indices is disputable. Indices are English but names of Gods are in Polish.
© Roksana (NemezisAmaranth)
The Ace of Spades

Posted by Collector on 19.07.2013 in DeviantART, Playing Card Art
Tags: Aphrodite, art, Baraja, cartes à jouer, DeviantART, Dionysus, игральные карты, Greek mythology, Hermes, Nemesis, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte
These are three playing cards designed by the American artist, Katherine Bishop, as an assignment for her Spring 2013 Concepts II class. The task was to design three court cards and its back design. Playing cards are dedicated to main heroes of the series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter.
© 2013 Katherine Bishop
The King of Spades – Harry Potter

Posted by Collector on 19.07.2013 in Behance, Playing Card Art, Playing Cards and Literature
Tags: art, Baraja, cartes à jouer, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, playing card collecting, playing cards, Ronald Weasley, Spielkarte, The Jack of Diamonds, The King of Spades, The Queen of Clubs

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