Platoon playing cards were designed by the American artist Laura LoForese as fan project dedicated to the game “Ni No Kuni”. This game features a unique card game called Platoon that was created for an in-game casino. She made these playing cards for her friend. The cards feature many of the characters and creatures from the game. Laura is going to print them as a real deck of cards. © 2013 Laura LoForese
Joker – Wizard
Today No Name Playing Cards make the headlines on this blog. I was able to get it from JP Playing Cards (find a 10% discount below). This is quite a mysterious deck of playing cards because it’s hard to find a lot of information about it.
In accordance with the press release walking Internet, this is the deck produced by Mloong Magic (China) in cooperation with Cards Dancing. The last one is the biggest Chinese association (more than 1500 members in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong) for the study of card tricks after Finger Dance. They produced the deck in April 2012.
The deck: 52 playing card + 2 slightly different Jokers + 1 blank card + 1 double backer. Poker size. 2500 decks were printed by USPCC (presumably Bicycle stock, Air-Cushion finish). Playing cards have custom pips and indices. Court cards are quite seriously redesigned Arrco standard court cards. The pictures of the tuck case are clickable:
Mythical playing cards (project) were designed by the American artist Megan Pittam. The deck is made completely out of the Baskerville typeface. Each face card displays a mythical character taken from commonly known myths originating from different cultures or pop cultures. Faces of all court cards and aces are the same.
© 2013 Megan Pittam
Ahoy Playing Cards designed by the Argentinian artist Lisa Nemetz. This is a nautical themed deck of poker-cards which is made with handcrafted stamps. © 2013 Lisa Nemetz
Playing cards (project) designed by the Serbian artist Mina (Mistiqarts) in Victorian style. Characters need more contrast for better visibility. Indices should be unified. Anyway her artworks are quite interesting.
[Mistiqarts’s gallery on DeviantART]
© Mina (Mistiqarts)
The Queen of…
PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 