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Selected Year: 2013
Selected Month: November
Total Articles: 4,432

Creative Clash Card Game

Creative Clash Card Game

The Creative Clash card game, by the Infantree, is a fast-paced card game where you become the Principal of a creative agency and battle with your friends for the biggest Ego around.

Breaking Bad Playing Cards

Breaking Bad Playing Cards

A set of cards inspired by the hit TV show Breaking Bad, created by Jeff Nichol.

Side Car

Side Car

Luis Fourvel's standard English style Naipes Side Car, with the distinctive motorcycle Joker were published over several decades.

Estelares

Estelares

Naipes Estelares playing cards manufactured by Luis A. Fourvel y Cia., Buenos Aires, early 1950s.

Parks and Recreation Playing Cards

Parks and Recreation Playing Cards

Custom playing cards based on the TV series Parks and Recreation.

Elevenses

Elevenses

Elevenses is a card game in which respectable 1920s socialites strive to serve the finest morning teas!

35: More Design Copies

35: More Design Copies

Here I want to take another widely copied design and see how individual variation by the copier can take the original design through a lot of changes. I shall take the three USPCC designs: US3 (wide), US3.1 (bridge) and US4 (wide). To the best of my knowledge these are no longer used in the US, except perhaps for special productions, as in the retro market.

Naipes Tango by Arco Iris

Naipes Tango by Arco Iris

Naipes Tango by Producciónes Gráficas Arco Iris, 1999.

Falta Envido

Falta Envido

Naipes Argentinos para Truco "Falta Envido" created by Alberto Soifer with Gaucho courts and variant suit symbols, 1982.

The Combination of Images and Text on early playing cards

The Combination of Images and Text on early playing cards

When playing cards have titles or legends these reference a written/literary tradition of some form. It connects the image to a wider cultural sphere, extending the visual impact.

La Cumparsita Tango deck

La Cumparsita Tango deck

Tango playing cards manufactured in Argentina, 2001.

Animal Tarot

Animal Tarot

Woodblock and stencil Animal Tarot cards, probably of Swiss origin, 2nd half 18th century.

El Monoplano

El Monoplano

María González Rizzo (1926-1940) followed in her father's business producing Spanish-suited brands such as “Los Dos Tigres”, “La Española” and an Anglo-American style deck titled “El Monoplano”

Suicide King

Suicide King

The King of Hearts, holding a sword behind his head, is sometimes nicknamed the “Suicide King”. He can be seen to derive from a late medieval design showing a King wielding a battle axe.

Provence Pattern - Portrait de Provence

Provence Pattern - Portrait de Provence

The 'Provence' pattern contains figures which go back to the fifteenth century.

Heber Mardon (1840-1925)

Heber Mardon (1840-1925)

Heber Mardon was born in 1840. With his father he founded the firm of Mardon and Son which, in 1863, became Mardon, Son & Hall.