Cards of Life and Death is unfinished set of several playing cards designed by the Hungarian artist Kornel Ravadits. Playing cards are dedicated to contraposition of life and desth which is depicted on cards. Each court card mirrors different ages and cultures emphasizing that the above mentioned contraposition is relevant for all of them.
© Kornel Ravadits
The King of Spades

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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

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Playing cards designed by the Hungarian artist Eni Simonyi. Nice graphic art but court cards and number cards are the same (with the exception of colours). © 2013 Eni Simonyi

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“I decided to design a new set of Hungarian cards, or Tell-cards for this year’s school assignment. We had to create something which can be connected to the art nouveau movement of Hungary. Some of the figure cards feature hungarian and international artists of this style of art, the aces symbolize the four seasons. The deck contains 32 illustrated black-and-white cards.” ~ Barbara Bernát

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