Cardistry: New Season of School of Cardistry on Kardify

School of Cardistry is back! New season and a new deck! For those who don't know, NDO's School of Cardistry is a popular resource for many new Cardists, with over 30,000 subscribers and 1.3 million views on our YouTube channel. The new season brings high-quality Cardistry tutorials and content for Cardists of all levels. Each week for the next 10 weeks, we will have a brand-new episode of School of Cardistry on Kardify, where we go through basic handling to advance flourishes in detailed multi-shot videos. All for FREE!


The second edition of School of Cardistry deck is specially made for the art of card flourishing. Like the first edition, these cards do not feature standard faces, but instead have a uniform design across all 52 cards. The intricate line art was done by Singaporean illustrator and visual artist Marcus Lim from SVNTY, whose works have been featured on StyleCaster, Vanichi and The Business Times.

Despite being non-standard, the design pays homage to traditional playing cards with elements inspired by court cards on the mandala. The faces allow displays to look more cohesive.

Spinning moves look great. Fans and spreads look bigger with two visible layers of colors.... and that's just with the faces! The backs add an extra splash of black on a clearly-defined border. It makes displays look clean, yet flips and twirls look extra flashy.

The School of Cardistry v2 deck is printed by Legends Playing Card Co, with their crisp and durable Emerald Finish. Available now on NDO's Store for $12.

News: Support Kardify with an Awesome Tee!

Kardify has been bringing you weekly news, review, previews, and analytics for over the past 3 years. As our audience grows, so do our expenses. Some of our readers have asked how they can help support the site and we have come up with a non-invasive way to do so.

Help Support Kardify by purchasing this limited edition tee. Available for the next few weeks, this very cool tee features a meticulously illustrated typography and the sword from the royals on the court cards. Designed by our favourite artist Ade Suryana.

Available in Metal Grey, Red and Blue on a high-quality Next Level 100% cotton tee. Available now on Cotton Bureau for 14 days. You will not be charged until a minimum of 12 have been sold. :) Thank you for your support!

Card Radar: Facebook Playing Card

The Facebook Playing Card deck combines playful concept with beautiful design in this recent initiative to send its 2015 marketing insights to agencies— via a deck of 52 illustrated playing cards.

Created by by London creative agency Human After All, each card offers a unique and engaging insight about Facebook and its U.K. users— from Santa to Star Wars, from Jay Z to Jon Snow. The social media giant chose to work with Human After All when they discovered the agency's amazing Cult Movie Cards.

From the images, the deck features With slick illustrations and neatly packaged in a tuck with a crisp geometric design, these cards both reflect the social media site's aesthetic and turn dry data into something insightful and beautiful that you can play with.

In addition to the U.K., country-specific packs were created for France, Italy and Spain with alternative insights and illustrations. More than 1,000 decks were distributed to agencies that work with Facebook. Uncut sheets were also created for Facebook to display in its headquarters and send to clients.

Images taken via AdWeek.com

First Look: DYNASTY Playing Cards by Brendan Hong

[Update] DYNASTY Playing Cards are now LIVE on Kickstarter! Don't miss out!

Inspired by his culture and heritage, Brendan Hong brings his unique style to his first independent project, DYNASTY. Some may not recognize the name immediately, but Brendan is the designer behind the extremely popular HIVE series which was released by Kings Wild Project. DYNASTY is a gorgeous deck of cards inspired by various Chinese elements in Brendan’s own delightful style.

We asked Brendan about the inspiration behind the DYNASTY playing cards,

I've always wanted to create a deck of playing cards inspired by my culture and heritage. I have taken various Chinese elements and combined it with the traditional style of playing cards (such as the suicide king and the one-eyed jacks, etc) so it's a fusion of both to make something completely unique and infused with my style of illustration.

There are two different decks in this series: the Jade Green (unlimited) deck and the premium Imperial Red deck (limited to only 1000 decks). Both decks with their own unique elements will appeal to the casual card players as well as collectors.

Court Cards for the Jade Green deck

The Jade Green deck features fully custom cards with unique Jokers, Courts and Ace of Spaces and Matte stock tuck featuring foil and interior printing.

Court Cards for the Imperial Red deck

The premium Imperial Red deck features fully custom cards with 2 unique Jokers, Courts with unique border design, fully illustrated Aces. premium black matte stock tuck featuring foil, embossing and interior foiling and individually numbered seals.

Both decks will be printed by the Expert Playing Card Co. on their Classic Finish card stock.

[Update] DYNASTY Playing Cards are now LIVE on Kickstarter! Don't miss out!

Pledge starts from CAD$14 (~USD$10) and there will be Early Bird reward tiers available. DYNASTY is set to launch on Sunday, 6th March at 1:00PM EST on Kickstarter.