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Dear readers, some of you proposed me to make the address of my blog shorter. I considered your opinion and made the address shorter. Now you can find “Playing Cards + Art = Collecting” blog on:

http://playingcardcollector.net

https://playingcardcollector.wordpress.com

All old links will work automatically with new address as well as with old one. But I am going to make some changes in names of several links on this blog. So do not worry if you can not use an old saved link – just use a search bar and the name of a post (article) to find it.

I will not change too much. But if you can not find some post (article) you can always ask me about it through comments on “About me” page. I will help you to find it.

Thank you for your attention.

Have a nice day… hey, I am not stingy – have a nice night as well 😉

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Posted by Collector on 19.07.2013 in This Blog about This Blog

Tags: art, carta, carte da gioco, cartes à jouer, design, игральные карты, mazzo di carte, naipes, playing card collecting, Playing Cards + Art = Collecting, search, Spielkarte

Printissa: Kashmir Playing Cards

18 Jul

This deck was printed by Printissa (Saint Petersburg, Russia) in 2005. It was extremely limited run of 500 copies.

I am not absolutely sure but as I know Printissa was a collective of former employees of the Colour Printing Plant (1817-2004). The Colour Printing Plant had the same historic meaning for the Russian Empire, the USSR and Russia as the United States Playing Card Company had (has) for the United States. But while USPCC was and is mainly concentrated on playing cards for casinos and magicians/cardists, doesn’t have a lot of really and fully custom decks, CPP was mainly concentrated on fully custom artistic decks.

There are several notes about CPP’s decks on pages of this blog. Unfortunately CCP was closed in 2004. Several former employees organized Printissa and tried to go on with artistic decks. They printed several interesting decks. The company was reorganized into RusJoker (Saint Petersburg, Russia) in 2006. The last one was closed in 2008.

These playing cards were designed by Lev Liberman. As you can see Printissa kept the best traditions of CCP in designing of playing cards. The deck is dedicated to the north-western region of the Indian subcontinent – Kashmir. It is also called the Heaven on Earth because of its natural widespread beauty. So this deck is Lev’s artistic vision of Kashmir.

The deck: 52 playing cards + 2 Jokers. Bridge size.

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Posted by Collector on 18.07.2013 in Deck of Playing Cards, Printissa

Tags: art, carta, cartes à jouer, design, игральные карты, Heaven on Earth, Indian culture, Kashmir, mazzo di carte, naipes, playing card collecting, playing cards, Printissa, Spielkarte

DeviantART: Queens by Runshin

15 Jul

Queens designed by Runshin (nickname).

The Queen of Hearts

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Posted by Collector on 15.07.2013 in DeviantART, Playing Card Art, The Queen of Diamonds, The Queen of Hearts

Tags: art, Baraja, carta, carte, carte da gioco, cartes à jouer, collecting, design, DeviantART, гральні карти, игральные карты, карта, коллекционирование игральных карт, Karte, mazzo di carte, naipes, Playing Card Art, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte, The Queen of Diamonds, The Queen of Hearts

2013 [week 28] – Upcoming Decks

15 Jul

Global Titans Playing Cards [available]
Bicycle Venexiana Playing Cards [on Kickstarter July 16, 2013 – 10 a.m. EST]

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Posted by Collector on 15.07.2013 in Upcoming Decks

Tags: art, Baraja, BBM, Bicycle Karnival Elite Playing Cards, Bicycle Playing Cards, Bicycle Venexiana Playing Cards, Big Blind Media, CARC, carta, carte, carte da gioco, cartes à jouer, collecting, Conjuring Arts Research Center, design, гральні карти, игральные карты, карта, коллекционирование игральных карт, Eric Duan, Eric Duan’s Butterfly Playing Cards, Global Titans, Half Moon Playing Cards, Karte, Kickstarter, Lotrek, mazzo di carte, naipes, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte, The Expert Playing Card Company, United States Playing Card Company, USPCC

Summer’s Travel Playing Cards by Atipus

14 Jul

Atipus (Barcelona) is the Spanish design studio founded in 1998. Since then they have been working across a variety of media and fields, ranging from brand identity to packaging or web services. 5ZAR8BHKW2B4

The studio created special playing cards in 2010. In order to celebrate summer vacations and as a gift for their clients and collaborators, they illustrated a poker pack of 52 cards (inspired by the 50’s). This card game is within a series of traditional games (Unplugged collection) that the studio delivers since 2009 to enliven the Augusts’ vacations without relying on technology and electricity.

Illustrators: Guadalupe González, Javier Suárez and Gerard Oró.