An Israeli artist, David Kapah, designed this set of playing card artworks devoted to fantasy worlds. Some demons, servants of the Death, ghosts, and cursed warriors were prisoned in one deck of playing cards. A sinister company, but interesting art. Number cards are the worst part of this pack. The back design could be also better. But aces are really stylish.
© David Kapah 2013
Playing Cards by David Kapah: The Ace of Spades
There are always some interersting playing card projects on Kickstarter. Today PlayingCardCollector.NET wants to draw your attention to Cultura Playing Cards by Mankin Chan. The deck has interesting cultural concept, and consists of 54 different artworks. It is inspired by the cultures of Italy, the Netherlands, USA, and China. Every suit is devoted to the country: Spades – Italy, Hearts – the Netherlands, Clubs – USA, Diamonds – China. Four cards of each number represent different categories: ace – flags, two – countries themselves, three – drinks, four – bread, five – dishes, six – sports, seven – transport, eight – houses, nine – landmarks, ten – animals. Jacks and Queens demonstrate traditional clothing and other specific cultural elements. Kings are represented by historical characters of appropriate countries. See it on the “Kickstarter Projects” page.
Cultura Playing Cards by Mankin Chan
And don’t forget about other interesting playing card projects ending on Kickstarter:
Hector Perez is an American artist. He decided to design his own concept of hand illustrated playing card deck devoted to early Mesoamerican civilization (the complex of indigenous cultures that developed in parts of Mexico and Central America prior to Spanish exploration and conquest in the 16th century). Courts and Jokers are inspired by appropriate ancient gods and goddesses. These playing cards have a little bit unusual faces (even for one way cards), but they keep the classic Anglo-French playing card hierarchy. Each god and goddess is identified by colour, and by ear jewelry that relates to each of the suits. The number cards are identified by the number of rings as well as the suits.
Unfortunately, the colourful lines with the names of cards make this deck as unusual as unpractical. Playing card collectors… and especially playing card players know that any colourful part (including black) of playing card faces having white or light background marks each card when it touches any edge of the card and isn’t equally repeated in all cards. But some fading effect can make these cards more practical and save their originality quite nicely. Also it is strange that number cards don’t have their names in contrast to the courts and aces.
© Hector Perez 2014
Mesoamerican Playing Cards by Hector Perez
A Polish artist, Felix-leg (nickname), designed the Two of Hearts devoted to dragons. The result has some connection with semi-transformation motives. Love is common for all creatures… even for mythical ones.
“Love is friendship that has caught fire…” ~ Ann Landers*
© Felix-leg 2012
The Two of Hearts: Draconian Love 
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