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.
© 2013 Katherine Bishop
The King of Spades – Harry Potter
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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.
The designer of Timeless deck and Butterfly deck made for RSVP Magic decided to propose people his own project – Bicycle Venexiana Playing Cards.
“Venexiana” – this is how the word “Veneziana” is written in the area of Veneto, in northern Italy. It’s familiar but at the same time strange, exactly as Venice itself. Venice is not just a beautiful city. It’s an impossible invention of time.
Inspired by designer’s love for this aged beauty, “Venexiana” recalls the elegance, playfulness and mystery of early 18th century Venice. It’s a completely custom deck, and every element, from pips to courts is entirely designed by Lotrek (the designer and owner of Half Moon Playing Cards). It is planned to be printed by USPCC.
This is a set of illustrated playing cards that display various studies the KHLim offers. Designed by the Dutch artist – © 2012 Nancy Schokkenbroek
KHLim – Limburg Catholic University College – a member of the University of Leuven association, the university network of Leuven University and twelve university colleges in Flanders, reaching from the Dutch border to the North Sea.
A little strange detail – traditional indices for Dutch Pattern are: Ace – Ace ; Heerser (or heer) – King; Vorstin – Queen; Bengel (or boefje) – Jack (knave). But Nancy uses Dutch “H” for kings and English “Q” for queens.
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