Maker's Playing Cards is a personal art project by designer and artist Rahul Alindib Akber. Each card has a quote, an epiphany, or a prompt realized while working on the art, product design, and crafting process.

This premium limited edition collectible deck is designed exclusively for makers, creative thinkers, designers, and problem solvers. These cards are a work of art that combines form and function in an elegant and stylish package.

Crafted from the finest quality materials, such as luxury 310 GSM German card stock and printed by the factory that prints playing cards for casinos, these cards are durable and made to last. The deck is designed with the maker in mind, featuring intricate and unique designs that inspire creativity and innovation. The cards are embellished with inspiring quotes and sayings to encourage and motivate makers and creative thinkers to push the boundaries and think outside the box.

This is Mark Shortland's third deck produced from original artwork. Each was painted while working as a headline performer on board cruise ships around the world.

Each card shows a different iconic movie costume.

Each original painting is 20cm x 25cm in size and painted in acrylic on artists' paper.

These paintings were then scanned in high resolution and the digital file was used to make each playing card. The artwork has not been enhanced or changed from the original work unless absolutely necessary.

Mark's own handwriting and drawings are used for the indices.

The deck contains 56 cards; 52 playing cards, two Jokers and two information cards telling which film the costumes are from.

The cards are expertly printed by Cartamundi on their Slim-Line paper/board (FSC, black core board - thin, snappy, soft to the touch). This board is combined with the TRUE LINEN B9 FINISH.

The back design was created digitally by Mark Shortland. It is simple, elegant and based on the old-style celluloid film. It is the same in either rotation.

Each deck comes cellophane wrapped inside a bespoke tuck box which is also wrapped.

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1032385165/53-films Full Deck Scan: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/437-53_films

I am a graphic designer based in northeast Ohio and have run three successful Kickstarter campaigns on smaller design projects including a series of decks printed by a small company. These are a design improvement one of the decks in my initial lo-budget series. They feature artwork inspired by the expressionists of the early 20th century. The highlight of this design is the multi-layered vertical noise in front of the principle figures, which I feel (in tandem with the ghostly hollow-eyed faces) creates a post-industrial, post apocalyptic feel which I particularly dig. They feature a double-ended back design, 100% custom faces, and a custom designed tuck box. ALSO - the edges of the faces have been carefully crafted so that the edges are uniform and double-ended. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/markallender/interference-playing-cards-mpc

I am a graphic designer based in northeast Ohio and have run three successful Kickstarter campaigns on smaller design projects including a series of decks printed by a small company. These are a design improvement one of the decks in my initial lo-budget series. They feature artwork inspired by the expressionists of the early 20th century. The highlight of this design is the multi-layered vertical noise in front of the principle figures, which I feel (in tandem with the ghostly hollow-eyed faces) creates a post-industrial, post apocalyptic feel which I particularly dig. They feature a double-ended back design, 100% custom faces, and a custom designed tuck box. ALSO - the edges of the faces have been carefully crafted so that the edges are uniform and double-ended. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/markallender/interference-playing-cards-mpc