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The Perfect Pair Playing Cards by Rule29

Rule29 is the American design studio. Teaming up with Just For Kicks and O’Neil Printing, the studio set out to create a deck of cards to capture their love for games and fresh Kicks. From the beginning, the Perfect Pair deck was designed to be as usable as possible. The one-eyed jacks are present, as is the one-eyed king. Each face card was given a name after a type of person that loves their shoes: “The Athlete,” “The Congressman,” “The Writer,” “The Fashionista,” etc. The remaining 36 cards each feature a different shoe profile to complete the unique deck.

The deck: 52 playing cards + 4 Jokers. Poker size. There were printed 2,500 decks in 2012.

Rule29 decided to create a special box for these playing cards. It nicely imitates a shoe box.

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Posted by on 29.07.2013 in Deck of Playing Cards

 

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Quick Note: Scopa Playing Cards by thespiel on Kickstarter

From Magellan to the modern day, Scopa, the classic Italian card game, has been enjoyed for nearly 500 years. Players capture cards from a central area to score points at the end of each round or “sweep” the table clean of cards (Scopa means sweep in Italian). The first player to collect 11 points over a series of rounds wins the game.

Scopa is played with a 40 card deck, 10 cards in four different suits. The suits in a traditional Scopa deck are swords, cups, clubs (literal clubs), and coins. Each suit has cards ranked from ace to seven and three face cards: The King, The Knight, and The Squire (or in some decks, The Lady).

This Gamer’s Edition of Scopa replaces the traditional suits with game components: dice, dominoes, clubs (the card suit), and meeples. Here are some examples of the new suit designs and artwork.

You can read more and could pledge here: http://kck.st/1702bFT [FUNDED – August 7, 2013]

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Posted by on 27.07.2013 in Kickstarter

 

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Playing Cards and Cinema: Horrors – Notations #1

Playing cards dedicated to horror movies – notations #1:

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • Dawn of the Dead
  • Friday the 13th
  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  • Seed of Chucky
  • Saw

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DeviantART: King of Stars by Kyle Smith

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]

© Kyle Smith (Torkirby)

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See other playing card projects on DeviantART (Category: “DeviantART”).

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