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This deck designed by Chris Cavill to bring something different to the table. It can be the first deck in Typographic category which will be printed by USPCC in case of its successful funding on Kickstarter. Typographic decks in many cases are playing cards with pictures on them composed of letters and numbers of a specific font. These playing cards slightly differentiate this approach as they have letters combined in names of cards as artworks. Different fonts are used. Chris invented a nice idea for his court cards to keep them fitting the theme. I think it is still can be classified as a typographic deck.
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Playing cards (artworks) were designed by the Polish designer Sylwia Pakulska (SylwiaPakulska) and are dedicated to four elements of Earth. © 2012 Sylwia Pakulska
The Queen of Spades (water)
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890 – 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy, poetry and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction. Lovecraft is the originator of the Cthulhu Mythos story cycle which created a new shared fictional universe (a fictional universe to which more than one writer contributes).
The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society (HPLHS) is the organization that hosts Cthulhu Lives!. It is a group of live-action roleplayers for the Cthulhu Live. Cthulhu Live itself is a live-action roleplaying game version of the popular horror roleplaying game Call of Cthulhu based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft. HPLHS was founded in Colorado (now it is based in California) in 1984.
The Society also produces a number of Cthulhu Mythos films and sound recordings under its Mythoscope and Mythophone labels. Additionally HPLHS produces different merchandise based on the Cthulhu Mythos theme including the deck of playing cards.
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Tags: Cthulhu Mythos, Elder Sign, H.P. Lovecraft, Lin Carter, literature, naipes, Nyarlathotep, playing card collecting, playing cards, Shub Niggurath, Spielkarte, The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, weird fiction
Playing cards (artworks) designed by the Polish artist Piotr Maciej Jurkowski (PiotrHarold).
The Queen of Spades (Emma Watson)
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Karnival playing cards are the main series of decks by Big Blind Media (BBM) – the magic media company from UK dedicated to producing instructional DVD’s and playing cards. This is one of decks from the series – Bicycle Karnival Earthtone9 Deck. It was printed by USPCC in 2012.
The Deck: 52 playing cards + 2 Jokers + 1 information card +1 double backer. Poker size. Bicycle stock with Air Flow Finish. Pictures of the tuck case are clickable:
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Tags: art, Bicycle Playing Cards, Big Blind Media, cartes à jouer, design, игральные карты, Earthtone9, Karnival Playing Cards, naipes, playing card collecting, playing cards, Sam Hayles, Spielkarte, United States Playing Card Company, USPCC
PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 