This attractive Queen of Diamonds was created by a Romanian artist, Roxana Gănescu. Queen’s green dress really suits her green eyes. And the Queen of Hearts can obviously be envious of her hair and coiffure.
But don’t be careless. As Jeeves* said, “Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous”.
© Roxana Gănescu 2014
The Queen of Diamonds
An American artist, Mike Wilcox (Mi-Wi), had his own deck of playing cards in mind creating these playing card artworks. He wanted to design a deck with four thematic suits. Three of them should be Robots, Pirates, Ninjas. Mike didn’t decide about the fourth suits. The plan was to design one card per day. But I think he has lost his interest in the project.
Nevertheless, he created several interesting playing card artworks. I think robots are better than ninjas. The full deck of robots could be a really nice present to playing card collectors. These playing cards have also custom suits which can be unusual for some collectors.
© Mike Wilcox 2012
The Seven of Robots
The leading designer of Sultana Playing Cards and creator of Wiretap Playing Cards, Dave Boyd, decided to go on with his spy theme for playing cards. Now he presents Gag Order Playing Cards – the futuristic sequel to the Wiretap deck. This deck of fifty-six custom-illustrated playing cards is devoted to futuristic spies in a dystopian world. Artworks were inspired by different movies, books, and games such as Blade Runner, Splinter Cell, Brave New World, 1984, etc. So, spies of the 2261 year welcome you in their net… or network, who knows.
The deck is planned to be printed by Make Playing Cards in the limited run of 250 decks.
“Initially we failed to raise enough money to produce The Retro Deck as we dreamed it: a multi-deck set of complimentary playing cards… Rather than letting that stop us, we were able to scrape together enough money to produce one of the two decks we campaigned for… To date we have sold enough of them to cover our debt but not enough to produce the second deck. If we can raise enough to produce this second deck in white we will be able to realize the full set as originally intended… And to keep it fun we’ve added a few extra perks to the deck, such as foil box seals and custom drink cards.” ~ Pocono Modern Playing Cards
The deck is planned to be printed by the United States Playing Card Company (USPCC).
Giovanni Meroni has a special giveaway on Facebook and Instagram. It’s devoted to his Kickstarter playing card project – Delirium Playing Cards. He proposes to win a free copy of Delirium Realm Book. The book will be signed by the author. This book is and additional accessory to the deck of playing cards. Note, this giveaway doesn’t include the deck.
The book:
Conditions of the giveaway on Facebook:
The same campaign is for his Instagram. Winners will be announced on February 13, 2015.
Good luck!
PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 