Welcome to the "Big Brother Is Watching You" artistic project. This is an exciting and innovative deck of playing cards, inspired by George Orwell’s novel 1984. It’s a poker size deck that is both functional and beautiful.

George Orwell coined this phrase in the third paragraph of the first chapter of his novel “1984.” He wrote “It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU…”

The phrase refers to the government’s surveillance of the people with the help of listening devices and cameras, in a totalitarian society, where Big Brother is the head of the totalitarian regime.

We decided to develop this deck, inspired by Orvel's brilliant prophecy, which proved to have an outstanding relevance in today’s world.

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/3rd-dominion/big-brother-a-custom-foiled-deck

Full Deck Scan: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/579-big_brother Note: Same artwork across all editions

After helping with a few successful card deck campaigns, we finally decided to start Excelsior Playing Cards. We were looking for a strong theme for our very own deck. We started by looking around at what was happening and what entertainment we were consuming.

The peak of the cyberpunk universe's influence on pop culture was in the '80s and late-'90s, but we have seen the genre striking back into the mainstream over the last few years. Successful franchising of Blade Runner 2049, Altered Carbon, Ghost in the Shell, Battle Angel Alita, and, of course, the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 video game from the makers of The Witcher, show us that the genre’s looks, city concepts, and society intricating relations are coming back from their multidecade hibernation.

We wanted to create a deck that could reflect the exciting pop culture hype for the fans and, at the same time, have a luxurious look for cardists and magicians. There are very few decks printed with these thematics so far and even less from Bicycle® and rarely one with a 3D design. Therefore, this genre was a perfect match and a good choice for our unique style.

Full Deck Scan: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/677-bicycle_cybershock

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/22120154/bicycle-cybershock-playing-cards-printed-by-uspcc

We were supposed to have different colored seals for each set of gilded decks. Unfortunately, USPCC printed all the seals in grey. There is not a very good way to distinguish them other than peeking at the internal corner at the edge of the box flap to see the color of the box’s inner print