These “Crystal Time” playing cards were printed by Fournier in 1994.
The deck designed by Violeta Monreal. The artist was born in Oviedo (Spain). She graduated in Fine Arts. She is an illustrator and an author of more than a hundred books. Violeta helped to U.N. in the illustration of various projects. Her books are continuously published in major Spanish publishers. Many of her books have been published also in the U.S., Japan, Korea, France, Portugal, Italy, Greece and in several Latin American countries. She also designed several tarot decks.
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This deck designed by Maxpedition from ground up combining their unique aesthetics with traditional playing card features.
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Tiki Series of digital art prints by Michael L. Marland. Digitally-colored drawings using a combination of tiki images and playing card art.
Tiki are large wood and stone carvings which have humanoid forms and take special place in Central Eastern Polynesian cultures of the Pacific Ocean. This term is also used in Māori mythology. In accordance with this mythology Tiki was the first man created by either Tūmatauenga or Tāne.
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Using papercutting techniques, Emmanuel follows a centuries-old tradition of transforming the suits and pips of a standard deck of playing cards.
His personal challenge: Create 1 playing card a week, culminating in a complete deck of transformation playing cards***. More read and see here
He decided to create a transformation deck dedicated to birds in 2012 – Clipped Wings Deck. I hope this deck will be printed.
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PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 