These playing cards were designed by the Polish artist, Roksana (NemezisAmaranth) and are dedicated to Greek Gods. This is an interesting combination of aged backgrounds and figures of court cards painted in a specific art style. The position of indices is disputable. Indices are English but names of Gods are in Polish.

© Roksana (NemezisAmaranth)

The Ace of Spades

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Posted by Collector on 19.07.2013 in DeviantART, Playing Card Art

Tags: Aphrodite, art, Baraja, cartes à jouer, DeviantART, Dionysus, игральные карты, Greek mythology, Hermes, Nemesis, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte

Bēhance: Harry Potter Playing Cards by Katherine Bishop

19 Jul

These are three playing cards designed by the American artist, Katherine Bishop, as an assignment for her Spring 2013 Concepts II class. The task was to design three court cards and its back design. Playing cards are dedicated to main heroes of the series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter.

The King of Spades – Harry Potter

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Posted by Collector on 19.07.2013 in Behance, Playing Card Art, Playing Cards and Literature

Tags: art, Baraja, cartes à jouer, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, playing card collecting, playing cards, Ronald Weasley, Spielkarte, The Jack of Diamonds, The King of Spades, The Queen of Clubs

Printissa: Kashmir Playing Cards

18 Jul

This deck was printed by Printissa (Saint Petersburg, Russia) in 2005. It was extremely limited run of 500 copies.

I am not absolutely sure but as I know Printissa was a collective of former employees of the Colour Printing Plant (1817-2004). The Colour Printing Plant had the same historic meaning for the Russian Empire, the USSR and Russia as the United States Playing Card Company had (has) for the United States. But while USPCC was and is mainly concentrated on playing cards for casinos and magicians/cardists, doesn’t have a lot of really and fully custom decks, CPP was mainly concentrated on fully custom artistic decks.

There are several notes about CPP’s decks on pages of this blog. Unfortunately CCP was closed in 2004. Several former employees organized Printissa and tried to go on with artistic decks. They printed several interesting decks. The company was reorganized into RusJoker (Saint Petersburg, Russia) in 2006. The last one was closed in 2008.

These playing cards were designed by Lev Liberman. As you can see Printissa kept the best traditions of CCP in designing of playing cards. The deck is dedicated to the north-western region of the Indian subcontinent – Kashmir. It is also called the Heaven on Earth because of its natural widespread beauty. So this deck is Lev’s artistic vision of Kashmir.

The deck: 52 playing cards + 2 Jokers. Bridge size.