Who Art in Heaven is a limited-edition, full-bleed, deck of art poker playing cards. Inspired by medieval astrology such as their understanding of the seven classical planets (luminaries): the Sun, the Moon, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and Saturn. It tells the story of a young scribe who is questioning a cleric on the cosmos. I would be over the moon if, with your help, we could bring these art pieces to life.

The narrative artwork is the next window into my whimsical world of English Coney rabbits. The Coney live in deep, steamy warrens, spending their cycles solemnly preaching on Lord Heswe of the Meadows. Our story follows a young wistful scribe, trying to distract his strict cleric with ponderings and youthful imaginings of their scripture and what the heavenly cosmos truly is. As such, invisible UV ink is perfect to depict the scribes playful musings, hidden in the dark.

The hidden UV was designed in collaboration with my 5-year-old Arthur and a select group of fantastic children to truly capture a youth's imaginings of the stars. The aces puzzle together to reveal the black hole in space and knowledge, and from which all our scribe's fancies and fantasies explode.

The pip cards are also fully custom, following my innovative fan concept from Sensu. Each set of four numbers reveal one scene behind the tilted pips, and turn them around to see that each suit run reveals another scene - both in daylight, and hidden in the dark.

The Tuck box is a full wrap-around image star-gazing into the heavens. Printed with radiant, glitter foiling and covered with hidden activity using invisible ink.

The Patreon edition adds a starry-sky gilding, a second tuck foiling layer with gorgeous details, and a Patreon 2024 collectors band.

Features

• Hand-illustrated, fully-custom art poker playing cards
• Limited Edition print run of 250
• Printed by King Star Playing Cards
• Premium pearlescent box stock with vibrant foiling
• Hidden invisible UV ink
• Starry-Sky card edge gilding

Patternwork Playing Cards is an exploration of Japanese patterns fused with English style tapestry. The tuck box is composed of two parts: the fully foiled sleeve with extreme precision laser cut holes pattern and the fully covered patterned box. The cards are gilded with metallic foil with the back design of full-bleed borderless pattern. Most of the artworks on the deck appears as outlines, with patterns are the main focus of the deck.

This Petite Edition is very exclusive to the backers of the campaign - The pattern featured is thymes & tiger beetles; the Mini deck comes with a preserved flower in an acrylic cube together stored in a custom wooden box with metal engraved lid decoration. The cards are in mini size, with only two Jokers - the deck is that of Dyed Patternwork variant; dual-pattern back of lilies & ladybirds in blue/turquoise/white with thymes & tiger beetles in red/green.

Shuffled Stories is JBP's take on classic yet custom and luxury playing cards. For Volume 1, the Dapper Menagerie is based on JBP's first ever custom deck - Culturae Animalis Playing Cards. The artwork on the cards feature anthropomorphic animals as Courts and Jokers and full-bleed borderless Numbers. The back design feature thin border.

For this exclusive Patreon Edition, the deck comes with a paper band that marks it as coming from JBP's Patreon and the year of release. The black colored box comes with textured silver foil. The cards are gilded with black holographic foil.