Several aces were designed by a Ukrainian artist, Bohdan. These remind more posters, but they can be easily used as big ornate pips for aces. At the same time, it’s necessary to admit some strange combination of design elements: stardust, all pips (small) on each ace, floral embellishments, strips; money and gambling symbols on the Ace of Spades. Some casino can use these for its deck dedicated to New Year’s Eve celebrations.
© Bohdan 2014
The Ace of Spades
These playing cards were designed by the Italian artist, Simone Bianchetti, for AISM (Associazione Italiana Sclerosi Multipla – The Italian Multiple Sclerosis Association).
© Simone Bianchetti 2013
AISM Playing Cards: Jokers
Piatnik is one of the biggest manufacturers of playing cards in the world with its representative offices in Austria, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Poland, Czechia, Hungary and Latvia. This Austrian company was established in 1824 and is a recognised symbol of Vienna. Piatnik, Cartamundi and the United States Playing Card Company are the three largest, most famous and oldest playing card manufacturers still operating as independent playing card companies.
So it is pleasant that Szerencsés Kártyajárást! who are the Hungarian (Magyar) partners of this company share some interests in playing card art with this blog.
From Magellan to the modern day, Scopa, the classic Italian card game, has been enjoyed for nearly 500 years. Players capture cards from a central area to score points at the end of each round or “sweep” the table clean of cards (Scopa means sweep in Italian). The first player to collect 11 points over a series of rounds wins the game.
Scopa is played with a 40 card deck, 10 cards in four different suits. The suits in a traditional Scopa deck are swords, cups, clubs (literal clubs), and coins. Each suit has cards ranked from ace to seven and three face cards: The King, The Knight, and The Squire (or in some decks, The Lady).
This Gamer’s Edition of Scopa replaces the traditional suits with game components: dice, dominoes, clubs (the card suit), and meeples. Here are some examples of the new suit designs and artwork.
You can read more and could pledge here: http://kck.st/1702bFT [FUNDED – August 7, 2013]
PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 