These are several Pin-Up playing card artworks by a Canadian artist, Ted Hammond (ted1air). Some Hammond “tortures” cars, other Hammond creates artworks – the equilibrium of the Hammonds in nature.
Ted has been working as an artist for twenty years. He is quite known due to his Pin-Up modern artworks. Several of his artworks have playing card theme. So, enjoy these ladies.
© Ted Hammond (ted1air) 2011
The Queen of Hearts by Ted Hammond
The successful creator of Golden Spike Playing Cards, Jody Eklund (Black Ink Playing Cards), designed his new playing card decks – Innovation Playing Cards. There will be three editions of these playing cards: Standard Edition, Black Edition, and Signature Edition. They are devoted to “…the men and women who changed the world…”.
Four suits represent: Illumination, Transportation, Communication, and Aviation. So, you have a chance to take a closer look at famous inventors and innovators due to your hobby (playing card collecting) and Jody’s efforts.
The decks are planned to be printed by the Legends Playing Card Company (LPCC).
These are several playing card artworks created by a German artist, Silke Werzinger. She is a freelance illustrator with home in Berlin. Silke studied communication design in Nuremberg. Now she creates her artworks for different clients: Cosmopolitan, Deutsche Telekom, Electronic Arts, L’Oréal, ELLE Girl, Mavi Jeans, Mc Donalds, etc.
Silke has a really unique style. She proves sketches to be finished artworks. Enjoy this “sketchy” style.
© Silke Werzinger
Ex-Boyfriends by Silke Werzinger
Lorenzo Gaggiotti (Stockholm17) started his third playing card project on Kickstarter. This deck, Bicycle №17 Playing Cards, is full of art and imagination as his previous two decks, Requiem Playing Cards and Heretic Playing Cards. Playing cards traditionally have a lot of hidden details, inscriptions, and meanings.
“There is no specific theme in this deck, it´s quite eclectic and I let my fantasy run when I illustrated the courts. The diamonds have clearly an Egyptian resemblance, but overall they belong to a parallel world. There is a thing that connects all the court cards: the text circling the background is a part of the Aeneid, a Latin epic poem written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.” ~ Lorenzo Gaggiotti
There will be five different decks in this No. 17 series. The Bicycle and Unbranded No. 17 decks are planned to be printed by the United States Playing Card Company (USPCC).
PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 