Several playing cards designed by the Puerto-Rican artist Manuel Olmo-Rodriguez as greeting cards for promotional purposes. Manuel was inspired by antique playing cards. Playing cards are based on popular iconic characters from holiday festivities celebrated in Puerto Rico. The first is Santa Claus December 6th and the 24th; then Old and New Years December 31st and January 1st correspondingly; the “Three Wise Men” or ”Three Kings”: Melchior January 7th, Gaspar January 8th and Balthasar January 9th. © 2006 Manuel Olmo-Rodriguez

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Posted by Collector on 30.07.2013 in Behance, Playing Card Art

Tags: art, Balthasar, Behance, cartes à jouer, design, игральные карты, Gaspar, Melchior, naipes, New Year, Playing Card Art, playing card collecting, playing cards, Santa Claus, Spielkarte

DeviantART: The Queen of Hearts by Jen E.T.

29 Jul

The Queen of Hearts designed by the American artist Jen E.T. (GirlOfThe21stCentury) as a project for her Design class at Tech.

[GirlOfThe21stCentury’s gallery on DeviantART]

© Jen E.T. (GirlOfThe21stCentury)

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Posted by Collector on 29.07.2013 in DeviantART, Playing Card Art, The Queen of Hearts

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

Bēhance: Philosopher Typographic Playing Cards by Gabrielle Manotoc

29 Jul

These Philosopher Typographic playing cards were designed by the American artist Gabrielle Manotoc for her Typography I class. She was tasked to pick a typeface and using only those specific letterforms, create designs for a deck of playing cards. Gabrielle chose to use the typeface Philosopher. So she named each suit after a famous philosopher. © 2013 Gabrielle Manotoc

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Posted by Collector on 29.07.2013 in Behance, Typographic Playing Cards

Tags: art, Behance, cartes à jouer, design, игральные карты, font, naipes, Playing Card Art, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte, typeface, typeface Philosopher, Typographic Playing Cards

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]