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Posted by Collector on 12.04.2015 in Post (Information) Update

Tags: トランプ, ताश, Baraja, bowling, cartas de jogar, cartes à jouer, гральні карти, karty do gry, mazzo di carte, playing card collecting, playing cards, Randy Butterfield, Spielkarte, sport

“Kickstarter: Nouveau Playing Cards by Bona Fide Playing Cards” is updated

04 Apr

“Kickstarter: Nouveau Playing Cards by Bona Fide Playing Cards” is updated.

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Posted by Collector on 04.04.2015 in Post (Information) Update

Tags: art, Art Nouveau, art nouveau playing cards, トランプ, Baraja, cartas de baralho, cartes à jouer, игральные карты, karty do gry, Kickstarter, mazzo di carte, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte

Bēhance: “Indianie” (Indian) Playing Cards by Katarzyna Fus

31 Mar

Hardly these playing cards can be practical in their current form, but I couldn’t omit them. Created by a Polish artist, Katarzyna Fus, these are really cute pieces of art devoted to Indian culture. I really like her style for this prototype deck. Court cards represent people. Totem (a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serve as an emblem of a group of people) is in the aces. Number cards and the back design contain imitation of some petroglyphs (arrows and horses). Unfortunately, all number cards have only different appropriate quantity of arrows in their pictures.

Playing cards haven’t been produced. I think they will become more functional with white frameworks around the coloured pictures. Letters and numbers of cards can be also moved outside the pictures. Horses are better to use for number cards instead of backs. Tomahawks (a type of axe from North America) and calumets (a ceremonial smoking pipe used by some indigenous American nations) can vary pictures of number cards of different suits. Different totems for aces will be also nice.

© Katarzyna Fus 2013

Indian Playing Cards by Katarzyna Fus

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Posted by Collector on 31.03.2015 in Behance, Playing Card Art

Tags: art, トランプ, cartas de baralho, cartes à jouer, игральные карты, Indian culture, indians, karty do gry, naipes, Playing Card Art, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte

Playing Card Art: Playing Cards by Quentin Vijoux

14 Dec

These playing card artworks were created by a French artist, Quentin Vijoux. He planned to create Tarot cards but didn’t have enough knowledge in the field of Tarot. So, the artist created several sketches of playing cards which are more common for traditional Anglo-French playing cards. These are quite vivid and funny. Quentin decided to change his direction of art for his real Tarot, so these will be only artworks… or…

© Quentin Vijoux 2012

The King of Clubs

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