Porcelain Chinese Zodiac Edition The Blue & White Porcelain deck was designed and illustrated by Shann Larsson as part of a project between the SCAD Collaborative Learning Center and the Legends Playing Card Company. The ‘Blue & White Porcelain’ deck features hand painted and digitally refined illustrations that are inspired by traditional Chinese blue and white ceramics. To mimic this as closely as possible, we have printed Spot UV varnish over certain parts of each card back as well as the tuck box, giving the artwork a highlight and shine that enhances the color and gives the cards that extra special, yet subtle, elegant touch. We can now offer this print service to any of our customers who want a similar feature for their artwork. Thematically, the design references the twelve animals of Chinese astrology. The zodiac animals of each face-card were individually hand painted in watercolor, with their edges digitally refined to create a clean, modern, yet subtly traditional work of art. Pattern like abstractions both construct the face-cards and serve as decorative embellishments to the tuck. The deck's geometric and organic forms also draw inspiration from modern Scandinavian porcelain. The deck is a fusion of east and west, much like the city from which the deck was born – Hong Kong. The home of Legends Playing Card Co., bring you a new standard to playing card quality and innovation. Printed in a limited print-run of around 1,000 decks, this is a truly special piece of art and design that you can hold in your hands!

This is the 10th deck in the "Lunar & Zodiac" series. It was produced in advance of the Kickstarter campaign for backers who ordered the entire series of 12 standard edition decks.

This series takes as reference the relationship between the nomads of Xiongnu in ancient Northern Asia and the well-known Chinese lunar calendar represented by 12 animals. In this calendar each animal is related to the lunar year of birth and also marks, according to its beliefs, the destiny of each person.

Since a series of 12 decks would be too ambitious for a single project, we decided to launch the first deck dedicated to the PIG year (2019) and then to continue within a year.

About the Deck: Cards have been beautifully illustrated combining ancestral and modern techniques. The original drawings have been created with a Buddhist painting technique called “nagtan”. This technique uses dark backgrounds and luminous brush strokes. The digital treatment of these illustrations eliminates the dark backgrounds to achieve cleaner and more colorful cards.

Each deck has been customized according to the animal it represents. Thus, the court cards show animals with human aspect and dressed in colorful period costumes. The faces are full of details.

Each deck also includes texts with relevant aspects for each sign such as positive and negative colors, lucky numbers, matching signs and enemies, etc…

In addition, each deck will have four jokers for joker collectors.

Features:

Embossing for tuck boxes for both editions

2 foils (Red, Gold, Silver) for tuck boxes for both editions

German premium black soft-touch cardstock for LIMITED tuck box

Italian pearlescent colored (red) cardstock for STANDARD tuck box

Spot UV glossy varnish for LIMITED EDITION tuck box

Numbered seals for LIMITED EDITION decks

High quality German card stock for cards

Pantone metallic ink for card backs

All courts are drawn by hand

56 poker sized playing cards (52 cards+4 jokers)

4 jokers in every deck for joker collectors

Printed by NPCC with premium linen finish

A Double-deck jacket will be followed each 2 decks free (included in stretch goal)

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nomadscard/year-of-the-pig-lunar-zodiac-playing-cards-1-of-12

Beautiful, colorful art deck inspired by Vincent VanGogh and his work. Completely custom and an eye catching back design inspired by his piece The Stary Night. 

• Limited Print Run (Only 1100 Produced)
• Printed by The United States Playing Card Co.
• 100% Hand Drawn Customized Deck
• Air Cushion Finish
• Custom numbered seal (xxxx/1100)

Double deck set featuring tulip arrangements.

Produced for the Miffy65 65th anniversary exhibition in Japan.

Second edition of Miffy65, exclusive sale at exhibition.