Fantasma is a series of poker playing cards designed by Thirdway Industries, inspired by Ghosts. This project is experimental, and marks the first deck by Thirdway Industries to be printed almost entirely with invisible ink. The court cards are fully custom, intricate and invisible under normal light. Only a blacklight reveals the design! The indexes are printed with Neon Ink, which is visible in normal light but fluoresces under blacklight, becoming more vibrant.

The "Tomb" tuckbox is made with premium paper, two layers of foil (black + iridescent light blue), and embossing.

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Kickstarter Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thirdwayind/italia-divina-playing-cards-for-discover-italy

2020 DOTY Award Nominee: 'Best Ace', 'Best Joker'

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The Golden Rule - Players edition

The courts where inspired by Dondorf's "Shakespeare" playing cards, this deck features 100% original artwork with brilliant gold metallic ink. The tuck box features 3 different foils (red and two shades of gold) with embossing on premium black stock, and gold foil on the inner side.

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Scans of each card can be seen at HERE

Symbology about the backs and the decks The backs of SINS represents Eden, the place where the first Sin happened. In SINS Mentis, Eve was planning to eat the Apple of Knowledge, but she didn't actually do that - so Eden was bright. In SINS Corpus, Eve ate the Apple and she was banned. Without her and Adam, an eternal night fell on Eden. This means, chronologically, that SINS Corpus happened after SINS Mentis. In SINS Anima, Adam and Eve realized they're the first two humans in the world. They are banned, frail and mortal. But after they ate the Apple, they also are full of self-knowledge. They became the first two dreamers. Eden is now empty and is red. Red like blood and hell fire - but also red like the heart, passion and life. The three decks also represents the philosophy behind the name Thirdway Industries: thesis, antithesis, synthesis.

Dominion playing cards uses custom illustrated courts of the most well-known Kings and Queens of fictional and non-fictional empires of all times. It reimagines the courts of a standard deck with illustrations that are gorgeous and colorful, with intricate details. Double-Sided Full-Foil on ultra-thin card stock

Imagine spray painting a mirror, you would have some shiny silver bits that you leave without paint, and some colorful bits depending on how much and which color you spray on the mirror. This is a rudimentary example of how the full-foil printing and production process works.

Typically this printing technique is used on trading cards (Pokemon) but never on playing cards due to the research and development involved in ensuring the playing cards handle just as well as a standard deck, with no clumping or chipped edges.

Full-foil is beneficial because you can overprint multiple colors to make any part of the artwork shine with varying reflectivity levels, exactly where you want it to be. No more detail loss or artwork shift like you can see with hot foiling. Sculpted Embossing

Acid-etching and hand-crafted embossing plates create rounded embossed elements in the artwork, which Legends will use for the Dominion tuck boxes. A close look at the blind embossed elements of the tuck (the parts without the shiny foil) and you can see why sculpted embossing is an elegant alternative to standard embossing.

In addition to sculpted embossing, the Dominion tuck boxes feature embossed elements within the hot foil. If you look closely at the griffon artwork in the shield, that is accomplished by pressing an embossing plate through the hot foil and soft touch paper of the tuck box. An advanced packaging technique which is masterfully highlighted by Jody Eklund’s artwork.