Gambling is a sin. A last resort for depraved, desperate people dancing down life’s tightrope in a pair of stilettos. At best it can lead to second mortgages on your grandparents house, pawn stores, poverty and – at its most extreme - long walks through the national park with a burly Croatian enforcer named Dragon.  So if you are going to gamble, we suggest you do so with the delightful StrangeLove Special Edition Playing Cards. Hand illustrated by the uber-talented Colombian collage artist Randy Mora, there is something here for the whole family to enjoy. In fact, each card is so exquisitely beautiful it will be sure to lighten your day long enough to momentarily forget the impending doom that awaits you.

3rd in a series from Gig Posters using cards in rock poster style artwork. http://www.gigposters.com/ Pro quality bridge-sized custom playing cards! 56 poster designers (52 cards / 2 jokers / custom back / custom box) Designs By: Lonny Hurley, Greg Harrison, Jim Mazza, Brian Ewing, Darren Grealish, Allan Lorde, Ivarton, 3d Glasses, Robbie Fuct, Denis Mutter, Mike Sniper, Ryan August, Bootsy Rizzak, Jim Altieri, Adam Swinbourne, Steve Sleeve, Nathan Santistevan, Christopher Lands, Chuck Keppler, Luke Drozd, Pete Cardoso, 100degrees, Erick Montes, Gina Kelly, Eric Dyck, Nick Rhodes, Matthew Terich, Adam Shellabarger, Delanorock, Stephen Chilton, Henry Contreras, Scrawled, Graham Pilling, Autistk, Doublenaut, Maynard, Jeremy Wilson, Dan Stiles, Crosshair, Hero Design Studio, John Seabury, Micah Smith, Von Dada, Josh Rickun, Keith Neltner, Danny F. Criminal, Alice Phieu, Allen Boe, Judge, Evan Marnoch, Rob Warnick, Ben Swift, Mile 44, Diana Sudyka, Strawberryluna, Jeremy Boyd

aka Boss Deck 2

The new deck features a lof of the aspects of the original Boss Deck. The cards have a Magic finish which makes them ideal for tricks and sleight of hand. Faces, pips, jokers, tuck case and seal are all fully customised.

This deck features weirdly wonderful bio-mechanical anthropomorphic creatures from English artist Mr. Mead who channeled his childhood fear and obsession with anthropomorphism. The characters are grouped by family into the four suits, Birds for the Hearts, Horned Beasts the Diamonds, Cats the Spades and Foxes the Clubs. A total of 4 versions were printed in 6 runs of 100 each.  Each version uses the same cards, but a different tuck for each version.  Initially released in April 2011 as v1 with 100 decks using a tuckbox featuring a rat head and Antlers Gallery 'A' logo on the back, as they were sold by antlersgallery.com only or at the gallery reception event.  Shortly after a 2nd version was printed using the Diving Bull (AoD) on the tuckbox with 100 more decks.  This was followed by another 100 printing as v3 using the Voxman (AoC) on the tuckbox.  Finally the v4 in 3 print runs of 100 each using the foxhead logo, also known as the 'artist edition'.

Mr. Mead uses the traditional drawing technique of dip pen and ink to blend the animal, human and mechanic into a super species he nicknames Bio-Mechanical Anthropomorphism. Working from his studio in Jamaica Street Studios, Bristol, Mead creates artwork for folk tales, album covers, posters and large scale works. He has exhibited far and wide, from London to New York and Melbourne.

Note - details regarding the versions and printings were received directly from the artist via message exchange in early June 2015

Scans of each card can be seen at www.marytcusack.com/maryc/decks/html/Cards/Masterpieces.html

Scans from each card can be found at www.marytcusack.com/maryc/decks/html/Cards/Leonardo.html

Our first expression of Leonardo was presented here on Kickstarter three years ago, and became one of the most successful playing card projects of all time.

Today we are delighted to announce Leonardo MMXVIII - An impassioned re-imagining of a classic, yours to treasure in a set of Edition Gold and Edition Silver art playing cards!

Careful study of this card reveals the Rhombicuboctahedron at the centre. Leonardo drew this geometrical illustration for his friend Luca Pacioli's book The Divine Proportion. It is believed to be the first of it’s kind. The anatomical study of a human skull is from The Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace. All together they conspire to form The Death Card, the Ace of Spades.

This empathetic view of a prisoner begging, set within the front left section of the drawing for The Adoration of the Magi, forms the basis for one of the two Jokers. The other is from a whimsical costume drawing for a masked ball, done for one of Leonardo's wealthy patrons.

A most royal couple indeed! The King of Spades, shown in Edition Gold, is sourced from four different works in graphite by Leonardo. The Queen, also rendered from a variety of folio work, is portrayed amid the timeless Tuscan landscape.

Leonardo's lifelong interest in anatomy was profound. He utilised these anatomical studies across the entire spectrum of his work. Our Ace of Hearts, with it's unborn child in the womb, conjures up a symbol of life, which stands in bold contrast to the Ace of Spades, the chilling icon of Death.

The Heart Queen is from The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist, at the National Gallery in London, a work of exceptional light and shadow. Notice the integration of the background imagery on the Jack, a blend of four different folio drawings, primarily from the Codex Atlanticus.

Leonardo was keenly interested in the hidden patterns of nature. He found great delight in rendering subtle details. The back of the cards feature the beloved L'Uomo Vitruviano, surrounded by numerous small drawings of the master.

Leonardo was unsurpassed in his ability to render movement within a composition. Depicted above in Edition Silver, this is The Suicide King, the King of Hearts. This dramatic and ferocious figure comes to us from The Battle of Anghiari, the original of which is lost.

The Leonardo cards are designed with great respect for Leonardo's work, and his constant, yet daunting, strive for perfection. The two tens shown above aptly illustrate this. Every card in Leonardo MMXVIII is unique, from the pips, to the famous Leonardo mirror script, to the background parchment, to the distressing of the ink.

This iconic work of Leonardo, The Bust of a Warrior in Profile, initiated our idea of designing art playing cards based on his Renaissance masterworks. Compositing this card, The One Eyed Jack, from the soldier’s head to the crossbow elements demonstrated that the concept, though dauntingly difficult, had great potential. Leonardo’s original silverpoint drawing can be found today in The British Museum.

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/143777403/leonardo-mmxviii-art-playing-cards

• - 52 poker size playing cards + 2 Jokers
• - Special Ultraviolet Ink on the tuck box
• - Hidden Text Inside The Box
• - Premium soft-touch black cardstock for tuck box
• - Embossing and foil on the tuck box
• - 100% custom design of cards and tuck box
• - Custom tuck seal
• - Printed at the highest quality by the NPCC
• - Exclusively on the Kickstarter

Portfolio52 proudly presents a series of custom poker size decks of playing cards designed with a touch of oddity by Stockholm17. The Odd Fellows are a care-free crew, unbothered by the norms of "functioning members of society". Come aboard and meet a couple of supremely odd characters, each with their own blend of cards and art packaged in personality that's almost too much for your eyes to handle. This project is the first official P52-branded project created as an ode to our love of playing cards. Join our crew in a celebration of the odd and reckless.

The JAKKO mini deck features pearlescent orange stock with black and white foiling. A skeletal embossing is applied across the face of the tuck. 17 marks scratch across the top signifying the date of the launch and the number of Stockholm17. On the face of the deck is a Jack-o-lantern featuring a 5 of Spades reveal and spider iconography in the four corners.

The custom illustrated court cards feature a wildly intoxicated bunch with custom illustrations for each individual pip. The back designs are also 100% custom to each deck in the Odd Fellows series while still maintaining a cohesive design to maintain integrity throughout. This special deck was unlocked on Halloween of the Kickstarter campaign and is mini deck in size.

Portfolio52 proudly presents a series of custom poker size decks of playing cards designed with a touch of oddity by Stockholm17. The Odd Fellows are a care-free crew, unbothered by the norms of "functioning members of society". Come aboard and meet a couple of supremely odd characters, each with their own blend of cards and art packaged in personality that's almost too much for your eyes to handle. This project is the first official P52-branded project created as an ode to our love of playing cards. Join our crew in a celebration of the odd and reckless.

El Sapo Cubano features pearlescent bronze and lime green and white foiling across the barrel embossed case. 17 marks scratch across the top signifying the date of the launch and the number of Stockholm17. On the face of the deck is El Sapo himself with a custom diecut around his mouth to show the display card below with the edition # of the deck out of 888. This display card is a custom letterpressed card that is also signed by the artist.

El Sapo Cubano was a limited edition deck run out of 888 launched as a special release in the last 48 hours of the 2021 P52 campaign.

The custom illustrated court cards feature a wildly intoxicated bunch with custom illustrations for each individual pip. The back designs are also 100% custom to each deck in the Odd Fellows series while still maintaining a cohesive design to maintain integrity throughout.

Madame LaVeau LTD700 the Soothsayer, released as part of Stockholm's 2023 Patron Awards.

I had in mind a new odd fellow and finally I found some inspiration and started to sketch some odd court cards based on a concept.

The way I am distributing characteristics of the characters is displayed in the black table. Long story short: I picked the number of court cards (12) and I am matching them with the 12 houses of the zodiac, the 12 months, and 12 major arcana associated to that month (like my Keymaster Tarot Calendar). Suits are associated to seasons, and this will affect the color palette difference between red and black cards.

Who is Madame Laveau? find Marie Laveau on wikipedia. I did not take everything from the original character, just the last name and the mystic aspect.