Card Radar: TYPOGRAPHIC Playing Cards

This unique deck of playing cards is a collaboration between Junli Kato and Peter Gutierrez. The main theme of this fun deck is typography. Each individual card is unique and beautifully created by the number of the card.

Lots of creativity has gone into these 54 cards and there are many allusions to stories and fun characters and playful images along the way. The unifying theme is the Helvetica font used as the base of each design along with other shapes, fonts, or other design elements.

The theme is consistent across all card, sticking to the black, white and red colours. The tuck and the backs were designed by Peter and the faces by Junli. According to Junli,

These typographic playing cards started as a fun and experimental side project while I was attending school and working. I have always been a huge fan of cards growing up, particularly playing cards, for their ability of being a source for multiple games and tricks. Without any surprise, I decided to design a deck of my own with every card having their own unique design. I stuck with Helvetica, a basic font, to unify the deck while also coming up with solutions that had to use the number within the illustration. I wanted to keep the typographic illustrations playful yet muted to limited colors. My friend Peter joined me to create the deck and he took on the responsibility to design the backside of the cards as well as the box they come in.

The tuck and cards were all hand-crafted and assembled. Originally only a limited amount of decks were made, about 10 or more for close friends, as this was seen as a personal project and nothing more. However, Junli and Peter have been getting asked where one may purchase a deck and are now working on the best venue to make them available to the public.

To keep updated with that information, visit Junli's blog.

Crowdfunding this Week: 10/11

Welcome to Crowdfunding this Week, where we select some of the best playing card projects on the various crowdfunding platforms this week. Surprisingly slow week, we have three projects for you to check out:

GROTESK MACABRE playing cards [First Look]

A death themed deck of playing cards, a descent to the Underworld - and a unique Limited Edition deck!

Kickstarter project by: Half Moon Productions
Current Status:  77% Funded
Pledge Amount: $12 for single deck
Ends: November 5th, 2015

Element Playing Cards

Custom deck of playing cards designed in Italy. Printed by MPC.

StartNext project by: Element Playing Cards
Current Status: 17% Funded
Pledge Amount: $15 for single deck
Ends: November 6th, 2015

No.17 Le Chat Rouge Playing Cards [First Look]

No.17 "Le Chat Rouge" is a custom designed deck of poker size playing cards by Stockholm17. Printed by Expert Playing Card Co.

Kickstarter project by: Requiem Team
Current Status: 70% Funded
Pledge Amount: $15.5 for single deck
Ends: November 9th, 2015

Deck VIew: Coterie Bee (Gold Edition) Playing Cards

Elegant. Professional. Exclusive.

Bee playing cards by the USPCC is one of the most recognized playing cards worldwide for it's durability and quality. As such, when designing this deck, the team at Catorie1902 had one goal when designing this deck– to develop a deck of playing cards that retains all the fine qualities of Bee playing cards yet manifesting the needs of professional magicians and cardists at the same time.

The Gold and Black Diamond Back design is simple yet elegant, and above all, this design will not distract your audience from perceiving the revelation of magic effects and flourishes. The card feel, snap and durability of Bee playing cards are unparalleled. Printed by the USPCC on their casino Quality Bee playing cards Paper Stock and finish

Available now from JP Games.

First Look: No.17 Le Chat Rouge Playing Cards by Stockholm 17

[Update] Le Chat Rouge Playing Cards are now LIVE on Kickstarter!

For this exclusive first look, we are honoured to have a guest post from Lorenzo Gaggiotti of Stockholm17, creator of popular playing card decks such as Requiem, Heretic and No.17. In this guest post, Lorenzo shares with us about the Le Chat Rouge and the creative process behind the deck. Enjoy!

No.17 Le Chat Rouge is the evolution and the last version of the No.17 series. Over the years I've learned that a product never stops evolving, even though it looks similar to the previous version; just think of the iPhone series, from 2G to 6S. I am not planning to improve this deck "ad vitam", I think I have reached a level of satisfaction with Le Chat Rouge and therefore, decided to print it with nice features.

During the design process, I have to make choices, for example round shape's behind the courts, or rectangular? Well, I like both, but it is a choice and the outcome is quite different. With Le Chat Rouge, I am confident and decided to add elegant black inner borders. The Expert Playing Card Company prints perfectly aligned and centered cards, so I decided to work with them again after the great experience with Heretic.

The red foil accents on the back of the cards are something I could not miss. It gives to the deck an incredible effect and I am sure it will turn out great, even though it will be a little more expensive than a regular deck. The production costs are very high, and I need to print at least 2000 units, that´s the reason why the goal is a little higher than usual.

For the campaign, I have a couple of small surprises and of course gifts for the backers once I reach the stretch goals. No.17 Red Label is the "brother" of No.17 Crown Edition, another laser-cut job on special paper and assembled by hand here in Stockholm- signed, limited, numbered and quite exclusive.

The campaign will be launched on Saturday, October 10 at 2pm EST. If we reach all the stretch goals, this deck will turn out exquisite, elegant and exclusive.

[Update] Le Chat Rouge Playing Cards are now LIVE on Kickstarter!

This exclusive guest post is written by Lorenzo of Stockholm17 for Kardify. No part of this article can be reproduced without written permission from the author. You can check out Lorenzo's work online at stockholm17.com