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2024 • October
Art pack I
Art pack featuring Old Masters, including Bruegel, Vermeer, Titian, Raphael, Caravaggio, Canaletto, Velazquez and many others.
Gallia Belgica playing cards
Gallia Belgica playing cards by Cédric Volon presenting a view of Belgian culture and folklore.
Typographic Playing Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Typographic Playing Cards designed by Jim Sutherland, c.2010.
76: Transitions: Hunt & Sons
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by Ken Lodge
Styles change and technology develops. This means that it's possible to see transition periods in the production of playing cards: single-ended to double-ended, no indices to indices, square corners to round corners, and so on. I'll take Hunt & Sons as an example and look at the gradual changes that can be perceived from c.1810 to 1828, before Old Frizzle was introduced.
Neapolitan pattern by Luigi Pignalosa, Naples
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by Simon Wintle
Two versions of the Neapolitan pattern from the British Museum by Luigi Pignalosa, Naples, 1875 & 1882.