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D&D: Fantastique Playing Cards by Sveta Dorosheva

We have already devoted several articles to some decks produced by the Dan & Dave Playing Card Company (D&D). As it was said in the article about Fulton’s Clip Joint Playing Cards, the company generally produces playing cards; accessories for magic and card manipulations; books and videos dedicated to those fields of activity. Sometimes they take part in some big projects (“OUR MAGIC“).

This time we are going to say several words about (and to show several pictures of) another deck produced by D&D in 2011 – Fantastique Playing Cards. It is inspired by the apparatus of magic‘s golden age and the automatons of Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin.

This deck was designed by the Ukrainian artist Sveta Dorosheva (currently based in Israel). She is a freelance illustrator working in the areas of narrative illustration and art for books.

Playing cards were printed by USPCC on casino cardboard (Magic Finish) and have poker size. The deck includes: 52 playing cards + 2 Jokers + 2 blank cards. The Ace of Spades, Jokers and backs are custom with unique illustrations. All other playing cards in this deck are standard (recoloured) Bicycle playing cards.

The tuck case is clickable

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Posted by Collector on 26.07.2013 in D&D, Deck of Playing Cards, USPCC

Tags: art, automaton, cartes à jouer, Dan & Dave, игральные карты, Jean Robert-Houdin, magic, naipes, playing card collecting, playing cards, the Turk, United States Playing Card Company

DeviantART: King of Stars by Kyle Smith

25 Jul

This card was designed by the American artist Kyle Smith (Torkirby) as an assignment (a self portrait portrayed as a playing card) for his advanced drawing class.

[Torkirby’s gallery on DeviantART]

© Kyle Smith (Torkirby)

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See other playing card projects on DeviantART (Category: “DeviantART”).

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Posted by Collector on 25.07.2013 in DeviantART, Playing Card Art

Tags: art, cartes à jouer, design, DeviantART, игральные карты, naipes, Playing Card Art, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte, stars

DeviantART: The Five of Diamonds by Tara Williamson

24 Jul

The Five of Diamonds designed by the Canadian artist, Tara Williamson (merlot). This is an interesting semi-transformation playing card.

© Tara Williamson (merlot)

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Posted by Collector on 24.07.2013 in (Semi)Transformation Playing Cards, DeviantART, Number Cards, Playing Card Art

Tags: art, cartes à jouer, DeviantART, игральные карты, naipes, Playing Card Art, playing card collecting, playing cards, Semi-Transformation Playing Cards, skull, Spielkarte

Bēhance: Gender Playing Cards by Ignat Plot

24 Jul

These Gender playing cards were designed by the Lithuanian artist Ignat Plot.

On each card you can see a standard gender situation. On small cards (6,7) there are the worths situations (man on sofa, women washing the floor). On middle cards (8,9,10) there are situations that look standard for the society (cooking woman, working man). And on high cards you can see best gender situations (working woman, cooking man). And aces are brilliant – man and women do everything together – gender paradise. This system of cards was created to make a feeling during the game what is good gender situations and what is bad, because in each game you try first throw away small cards and left high cards, and that means that you will throw away bad situations and left better. ~ Ignat Plot

In general this is an interesting concept for playing cards and artworks are also interesting. “…working woman, cooking man…” – the best gender situation? really? I suspect he wanted to say about men supporting women in their striving for some self-realization not only as housewives.

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Posted by Collector on 24.07.2013 in Behance, Playing Card Art

Tags: art, Behance, cartes à jouer, design, игральные карты, gender discrimination, Lithuania, man, naipes, Playing Card Art, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte, woman

Collective Art Project (CAP) Deck: Gig Posters Playing Cards #1

23 Jul

Gigposters.com is a Canadian site dedicated to the artists, designers and musicians who create gig posters to advertise shows and events. It is some kind of international community for these categories of people. They are concentrated on music events. You can submit your works and take part in the community for free. Gig Posters accepts gig poster, flyers and handbills. They do not accept promotional, non-music related posters or posters for shows that did not happen. There must be at least one musical performer listed on the poster. (a band or DJ).

From time to time Gig Posters selects some artworks and produces a deck of playing cards. There are three decks at this moment. And this article is dedicated to the first one which was printed in 2005 (two other decks will be described on pages of this blog as well) – Gig Poster Playing Card Deck 1.

The deck: 52 playing cards with different artworks + 2 Jokers with different artworks + ad card. Bridge size. Playing cards are printed (by TMPC) on cardboard and have a glossy finish. The tuck case (designed by The Decoder Ring Design Concern) has also a glossy finish.

The tuck case is clickable