The Clockwork Ink deck features black and white pen & ink clockwork illustrations from the book How To Draw & Paint Fantastical Clockwork.

Gather your droogs and revel in a game with this deck of officially licensed playing cards from the acclaimed film, A Clockwork Orange.

This is visually based upon mid to late 1800's design and illustration with a dash of Monty Python-esque humor. All previous decks, produced under his seal fig. 23, took their inspiration from artistic and historical references linked to big cities such as New York, Paris or London. This time, the deck refers to the state of Montana whence Stephen has recently moved. Montana’s culture is rooted in the 1800’s when it was a prosperous mining area. Stephen wanted to mix the vintage style of the time with hipster fashion in a fun humorous way. For this, he has created a multitude of moving parts that are animated in his particular work in motion. With a flip-book movement, the cards reveal a curious animation showing also the completely customised pips. The flip book animation shows the growing of a fantastic mustache via the moving gears and dials in the head of the gentleman featured on the back of the tuck box. The 'fig. 23' logo beneath him is also animated.All cards follow this animation, and the court cards have a king's crown, a queen's crown, and a knight's helmet, respectively. There are two different full colour jokers in an embellished Victorian style. One is two-way and predominantly red-brown, featuring a Victorian gentleman looking in a mirror and seeing a devil. The other is one way and predominantly blue, featuring a head of the devil. The backs are one-way as per the front of the tuck box. The finish is smooth, and the stock has a good spring. Full Deck Scan: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/638-montana_moustache

Hello - and thank you for taking the time to look at my Kickstarter campaign! I'm hoping to fund this lovely deck to be printed in the USA by USPCC in a limited edition (to be finished September or October of 2019). This deck combines my two career tracts, Graphic Design and Animation, by featuring flip-book style animation on both sides. It is visually based on NYC and its art deco style; should this first "clockwork" become popular I would like to make this the beginning of a series based upon other international cities.

Do know that the animation on the backside is "event neutral," meaning that one cannot tell what is on the faces of the cards by studying and memorizing the individual backsides of the deck. You're safe from cheaters!

This will be printed standard CMYK process, no metallic inks will be used on this deck.

The animation on the faces of the deck includes a speedy clock, my logo (which includes a raven landing and taking-off), and in the crescent moving clockwork with letters passing under a magnifying glass - hmmm . . . what words do they spell? Included will be instructions on returning the deck to its original order to view the animation. To see all of the face cards and a demonstration of the animation, you can view the movie above.

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/swabbeddecks/clockwork-empire-city-playing-cards-uspcc-flip-book Full Deck Scan: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/312-clockwork_empire_city