New playing card projects are popping up on Kickstarter regularly. RJ Tomlinson (Titanic Playing Cards, Gettysburg Civil Unrest Playing Cards, etc.) presents Pompeii Playing Cards. His custom poker playing cards are inspired by the novel, The Last Days of Pompeii, written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Mr. Bulwer-Lytton was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He devoted his novel to the tragedy of the city of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples, Italy. It was destroyed and buried under ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
See the playing card project on the “Kickstarter Projects” page.
Pompeii Playing Cards by RJ Tomlinson



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This is a quick drawing from a Polish artist, Judyta Anna Murawska (Fukari). She says that the artwork was “inspired” by boring classes 🙂 This playing card artwork is the one way Ace of Clubs. Taking into account that some “queen of stars” is featured in the card, indices of the Queen of Clubs could be more natural for it. But this is author’s vision. She sees the Ace of Clubs as a dreaming lady – a big admirer of piercing.
© Judyta Anna Murawska (Fukari) 2011
The Ace of Clubs by Judyta Anna Murawska

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Kerri-Jane Mitchell, an artist from Cape Town (South Africa), designed the Queen of Hearts as some symbiosis of two epochs in the life of this lady. Different ages, different moods – different dresses, different friends 🙂
© Kerri-Jane Mitchell 2011
The Queen of Hearts by Kerri-Jane Mitchell

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Molly Maloney, an Ameriacan artist, has some stories in her mind which provoke her to design playing cards. Someday she plans to complete a full deck of playing cards devoted to the several stories. Each suit will tell a separate story. Court cards will be devoted to main characters of appropriate stories. Each number card should be a part of the respective story. Molly named only the story for Diamonds, the story of Kaguya Hime. I guess the full set will force the artist to name all stories.
Kaguya Hime (Princess Kaguya), also known as Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter), is a 10th-century Japanese folktale. It tells the story about the life of a mysterious girl called Kaguya-hime, who was discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant.
© Molly Maloney
Playing Cards by Molly Maloney – Kaguya Hime: The Ace of Diamonds

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Two artists from Mexico, Karen & Sara (TheUrbanTeam), designed this Joker. Their inspiration from anime seems obvious. Young ladies made him quite cocky. It’s interesting what he has in his right hand. Anyway, if you even have two aces, don’t hold cards in such way playing any game with people – they can lose their interest to cards and knead their muscles.
© Karen and Sara (TheUrbanTeam) 2013
Joker by Karen and Sara (TheUrbanTeam)

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An Israeli artist, David Kapah, designed this set of playing card artworks devoted to fantasy worlds. Some demons, servants of the Death, ghosts, and cursed warriors were prisoned in one deck of playing cards. A sinister company, but interesting art. Number cards are the worst part of this pack. The back design could be also better. But aces are really stylish.
© David Kapah 2013
Playing Cards by David Kapah: The Ace of Spades

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There are always some interersting playing card projects on Kickstarter. Today PlayingCardCollector.NET wants to draw your attention to Cultura Playing Cards by Mankin Chan. The deck has interesting cultural concept, and consists of 54 different artworks. It is inspired by the cultures of Italy, the Netherlands, USA, and China. Every suit is devoted to the country: Spades – Italy, Hearts – the Netherlands, Clubs – USA, Diamonds – China. Four cards of each number represent different categories: ace – flags, two – countries themselves, three – drinks, four – bread, five – dishes, six – sports, seven – transport, eight – houses, nine – landmarks, ten – animals. Jacks and Queens demonstrate traditional clothing and other specific cultural elements. Kings are represented by historical characters of appropriate countries. See it on the “Kickstarter Projects” page.
Cultura Playing Cards by Mankin Chan

And don’t forget about other interesting playing card projects ending on Kickstarter:
- Bicycle the Lumberjacks Playing Cards [2nd Edition] by Vadim Smolenskiy;
- Bicycle Celtic Myth 3d Edition Playing Cards by Cultúrlán Enterprises.

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