Limited Edition Card College Playing Cards

These look incredible! Card College Limited Edition Playing Cards on Kickstarter (1st August 11am) is a STUNNING deck based on Robert Giobbi's Card College, one of the greatest magic books as well as the most popular and systematic card magic course in the world of card magic.

Over a year in the making, the deck is a collaborative effort between Ark Playing cards (Instagram: @arkplayingcard) and TCC Playing Cards.

This exclusive playing card set design reflects the classic, elegance, and legacy of Robert's work. on the design, Danny of Ark playing cards said,

When I know I'm going to create a special edition of the exclusive playing card for such a great work as Card College. I am very excited. And hope to be able to make something different that people have never seen before. I hope that this Playing card can catch people’s eyes and can be a classic like “Card College”.

Besides the quality of the craftsmanship, a lot of thought has gone to the design of the structure of the tuck box. Danny continued,

The structure needs to be ornamental. When you open the card box, you will be shocked by the visual impact of this structure. The entire process from opening the card box has a sense of ceremony.

From the animation, the folding part will rotate 180 degrees and pop out when the front of the box is opened. An elegant surprise that sets this deck apart from what is currently in the market.

All sets contain base 3 colors-: Wine Red/Indigo/Dark Green, low profile yet luxurious. The tuck comes with embossing and copper foiling on the interior and exterior.

Inside, the face cards are standard with the exception of the custom Ace and Jokers. This maintains the classic look of the deck consistent with the Card College. To give it a touch of luxury, metallic ink is used.

The card backs are simplistic with a vintage casino-style mirrored designed featuring the logo of Robert Giobbi within a circular design element. The card backs are printed with metallic ink as well.

Also available during the campaign is the luxurious Walnut Deluxe Box Set (limited to 100) and the Black Gold Box Set (limited to 500).

As an extremely high-end and rare collection, we think the packaging must be luxurious.

Black walnut is a perfect choice for the material of the box set case and the first choice material for many luxury products.  The box is handcrafted with black walnut solid wood and covered with fine patterns made by full-page metal ink printing.

Inside, the drawer box is lined with fine flannelette for better protection of cards and finished with polished copper handle. The box will contain 3 color decks: Wine Red / Indigo / deep green (with Gilded edge) and includes a customized numbered certificate.

Meanwhile, the Black Gold Box Set is created with a paper board to make a creative packaging box.

In the process of design exploration, we are inspired by the auto sunroof of sports cars. The goal we want to achieve is designing an extremely cool structure suitable for the card box. Finally, we made it! The inspiration comes from the auto sunroof of sports cars.

The process of opening the package and taking out the deck is pretty cool and unique. The box set is made of 500 gsm high-end matte black cardboard. The whole mechanical structure is only made by paper, and 6 pieces of paper are assembled by hand.

The surface of the paper box is covered with a full-size foil pattern. Within, the box set contains 3 decks: Wine Red / Indigo / Deep Green. Each deck in the set has a unique limited numbered seal from 001 - 500)

The decks will be printed by USPCC on classic Bicycle stock. Pledge starts at $3.95 for the regular edition playing cards on Kickstarter... extremely good value!

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Deck View: Card College (Red Limited Edition) Playing Cards

Classic. Elegance. Legacy.

Ark Playing Cards' Card College Limited Edition is a stunning deck based on Robert Giobbi's Card College, one of the greatest magic books as well as the most popular and systematic card magic course in the world of card magic.

Inside, the face cards are standard with the exception of the custom Ace and Jokers. This maintains the classic look of the deck consistent with the Card College. The card backs are simplistic with a vintage casino-style mirrored design featuring the logo of Robert Giobbi within a circular design element. To give it a touch of luxury, metallic ink is used on the face and the card backs.

What makes this deck truly unique is the design of the tuck box. The elegant tuck comes with embossing and copper foiling on the interior and exterior. The tuck box is a delight to open. The folding part rotates 180 degrees and expands when the front of the box is opened. Very cool!

This exclusive playing card set design reflects the classic, elegance, and legacy of Robert's work. The tuck box comes with an elegant pop-up surprise that sets this deck apart.

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Here's a Look at the Exclusive Card College Elegant Box Set

The Card College Acrylic Set, Black Gold Box Set, and Walnut Box Set are all sold out! This includes all the Wine red, Indigo blue, Dark green edition decks... they will NOT be reprinted. Due to the high demand and popularity of the project, Ark Playing Cards has released a special Kickstarter exclusive box set.

In order to distinguish the exclusive set from all the unique sold-out box design, this ELEGANT box set adopts a new structural design inspired by the auto sunroof of sports cars. When you open the gift box, two pieces of cardboard with logo and text will separate slowly, and the playing cards will be revealed. The mechanical structure of the gift box is only made of paper, which is assembled by hand with 8 pieces of cardboard.

There are two versions of the elegant box set- the Elegant Box Set and the Deluxe Elegant Box Set. The Elegant Box Set sports a white colorway with champaign gold foil packaging. Inside, the set contains a set of Midnight Black & Ice White version of Card College decks.

The Elegant Deluxe Box Set features a more elegant gold foil on black colorway. Inside, the two decks are similar to the Elegant Box Set but they come with gilded edge decks.

Both sets are only available during the Kickstarter campaign and will produce as many as it is sold during the campaign.

Unlike the other editions of Card College playing cards, the Midnight Black and Ice White editions are printed in Taiwan. Don't miss out!

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Top 12 Playing Cards of 2020

What an uncertain year it has been! However, one thing is certain: we are incredibly fortunate to be part of such an inspired community of artists, designers, cardists, magicians, and collectors! Even with the pandemic, we have had a huge selection of decks released and delivered this year. 

We've compiled our favorite decks for 2020 right here. This will be the third of four articles counting down to our Deck of the Year reveal next week.

Top 5 Cardistry Decks

Top 5 Collector Playing Cards

Top 12 Playing Cards of 2020

Deck of the Year 2020

If you think we've missed your favorite deck, let us know in the comment section below. Note that the selection expressed in this top 5 are solely those of the author and the list is in no particular order.

United

From Cartamundi, the United decks were made to celebrate the acquisition of USPCC earlier this year. These decks are never to be sold and were only given away to the lucky attendees of Cartamundi and USPCC's House of Cardistry event in NYC.

Modern Idols

Modern Idols is a brand new series of playing cards by Thirdway Industries, based on the beliefs of the modern age. Designed by the Italian designer Giovanni Meroni the decks are inspired by the TV Series about American Gods - The story is about the new Idols that replaced the Old Gods. Inside, the artwork is fully custom with unique court cards, different color schemes for each suits, and eye-catching neon ink card backs.

Legal Tender 

From Kings Wild, Legal Tender is a beautifully crafted deck and strikes a balance between classic banknote engraving and the modern sleekness of high tech banknote manufacturing. Inside, the court cards feature many iconic American figures that are featured on current American currency: Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln. Legal Tender is the culmination of some of Jackson Robinson's most breathtaking artwork combined with the industry-leading advancements in printing technology and production.

Card College

Ark Playing Cards' Card College Limited Edition is a stunning deck based on Robert Giobbi's Card College. This exclusive playing card set design reflects the classic, elegance, and legacy of Robert's work. The tuck box comes with an elegant pop-up surprise that sets this deck apart. Inside, the face cards are standard with the exception of the custom Ace and Jokers. Metallic ink is used on the face and the card backs to give it a touch of luxury and elegance.

Crypt

Image by Richard Arturo (Instagram: @richardarturo47)

CRYPT Playing Cards by Lotrek of Oath playing Cards is the third installment of Oath's mystery decks. Bought sight unseen, no pictures of this deck have been released to keep all its secrets hidden like - a crypt. 

Meadowlark

By Meadowlark Pharmacy, the Meadowlark playing cards feature fully custom artwork by Russell Gray. The overall design of the deck has a retro yet modern feel throughout. From the mirrored card backs to the court cards, Ace of Spade, and cute Jokers. The deck is packaged in an eye-catching tuck box, copper foil, embossed, and capped with a beautiful seal. Everything ties together very well!

Star Wars 

Star Wars Playing Card is an officially licensed deck produced by Theory11 in collaboration with LucasFilm and designed by Mattson Creative Inside the deck is fully custom with special court cards and card backs with details that will sure to delight fans. The deck is packaged shiny foil and embossed tuck box feature either Rebel Alliance imagery. A must-have for any Star Wars fan! 

Robin Hood

Meticulously designed by Jackson Robinson, the unique artistic style achieved with the Robin Hood playing cards took heavy inspiration from the Bayeux Tapestry - a French tapestry from around 1066. Every stitch is hand-drawn to create this incredible display. The beautifully crafted court cards feature characters from the legend. The deck is kept in a striking tuck case designed to resemble an ancient book, including life-like features to resemble canvas and leather design-work, a book spine, frayed paper edges, and finished with realistic wear-n-tear details. 

52 Plus Joker 2020 Club Deck

The 52 Plus Joker club 2020 deck is designed UUSI. The deck is fully custom features original hand-drawn artwork by Peter using just 2 colors, black and red. The deck comes with a bold Ace of Spades, custom jokers, old-style suit symbols, and traditional courts inspired from full figure courts popular before the 1900s. The deck does have a vintage look and feel but with a modern simplistic touch.

Trident

Trident Playing Cards by Kevin Yu is an incredible looking deck featuring an eye-catching tuck concept designed with magnetic opening and closing system. When the box is spread out, one will notice that each piece is lined by a stunning Foil line, which traces the weapon-shaped cutouts. The card backs feature a mesmerizing silver and copper metallic ink with highly saturated colored lines that outline the image of the Poseidon’s trident. The courts are represented by legendary heroes from a different historical period, from Athena, to Alexander the Great and Hector from Homer’s epos Iliad.

Fontaine x Babylon

The Babylon Fontaines generated quite a buzz within the community when Zach dropped the SPOTLIGHT video on youtube. The deck features a minimal white tuck box design and a white card back featuring the iconic 'f' in black and thin black borders. When using a UV torchlight, the deck is 'activated' with the Babylon brand logo revealed on the white spaces of the tuck AND card backs! Genius! 

Beowulf

A last-minute addition to the list. Beowulf playing cards inspired by the longest epic poem with the characters represented on the face cards in unique carving-styled artwork by Jackson Robinson. The deck is kept in a tuck case designed to resemble an ancient book, including life-like features to resemble canvas and leather design-work, and finished with realistic wear-n-tear details. 

Honorable mention:  Royal Verge by Dealt Playing Cards, Kodiak by Black Ink Playing Cards, Postage Paid by Kings Wild Project, Black17 by Stockholm17,  Aurum Deus by Encarded, Charmers by Kellar O'Neil, Stratosphere by Legends Playing Card Co, Tough Luck by Native Tongue Studio and Doc's Playing Card Co., Mono Hexa by Luke Wadey Design, Rose Gold Gatorbacks by David Blaine and Fontaine x DabsmyLA.

Note that the selection expressed in this top 12 are solely those of the author and the list is in no particular order.

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Kickstarter: 7 Questions with Ade Suryana of Aquila Playing Cards

The Aquila Playing Cards is a collaboration between Three of Clubs and Kardify Projects. This meticulously designed playing cards is inspired by the Garuda Wisnu Kencana in Bali, Indonesia. This large mythical bird with eagle-like features has been featured in many cultural and religious mythologies, and has become a cultural symbol in Bali and Java.

This custom deck of playing cards is designed by Indonesian graphic artist Ade Suryana and will be printed by the Legends Playing Card Company (LPCC). In between preparing for our Kickstarter project, I had a quick chat with Ade about his design background, the inspiration behind Aquila, LPCC and his thoughts on Kickstarter.

Can you tell us about yourself, Three of Clubs and what is your design background?
My name is Ade Suryana. I was born in Tomohon, North Sulawesi of Indonesia. I love drawing and painting since the age of 5. I always get support from my parents and frequently attend the drawing competition (and of course I won some of them, haha). I was introduced into playing card by my uncle since I was 7 years old. We live in different town, he visit me once a week on Sunday and everytime he came, we always play a game with playing card. I remember when I was in elementary school, I love to make a small size of playing card and sell it to my friend at school. I use markers to draw the indices and pips and made the tuckcase from cardboard.

I moved to Yogyakarta, Central Java of Indonesia at 2004 when I attend to college to study IT. Talk about my design background, I have never attend formal college for design. I learned about graphic design from my brother. He is an illustrator and graphic designer and also my teacher in design. At the moment, I’m a freelance graphic designer for 4 years based in Yogyakarta, mostly designed logo for business and individuals. Back in 2013, I won a small contest of VJose Playing Cards at August 2013, later on September 2013 I collaborate with my friend Joao Pereira to submit my design and we won Bicycle Club 808 Contest Design-A-Deck-Rematch.

I’ve been collecting modern playing cards for 3 years and enjoyed the art of playing cards. Being in a playing cards community, I met two people this past year that have the same passion and vision, later we formed. Three of Clubs- myself as a designer, Akmal Luthfi (Magicican, Photographer, Video Editor) and Krisnapati Bayu (IT Professional, Content Creator , Deception Artist). We’re based in Indonesia. This is the first time we’ve been working together for a playing card project. We have one vision to spread our culture into playing cards and also create high quality playing card that could be accepted, enjoyed and used by playing cards enthusiast such as magicians, cardists and collectors.

What is your inspiration behind Aquila Playing Cards? How did you come up with the idea?
The idea of the deck itself came from Akmal Luthfi when we’re been talking about playing cards. Back in 2009 I visited Garuda Wisnu Kencana in Bali, so I think this will be a great idea to spread our culture into playing card. Later I start to build a concept design based on his idea. Garuda also described as a myth in our culture, so we create a concept of “The Myth” into a Marking System based on Krinapati Bayu idea which will be featured in The Standard Edition of AQUILA.

How much time did you spend working on the deck?
Couldn’t really say exactly how much time I spend on this deck. If I'm counting it's probably three months from the first line I drawed on this deck. I started the first rough design concept at January 2014, and spend 8-10 hours a day, most at night to designing and tweaking.

If funded, this will be the first Kickstarter project printed by Legends Playing Card Company. How did you come to this decision to use LPCC and were there any challenges when you approached them?
Legends Playing Card Company is known for their breakthroughs in quality and card handling. Legends #852 sold out the bulk of its inaugural print run of 11,000 decks in days, and are highly coveted among collectors, magicians, and poker players for the “glass-like” edges, durability, and printing precision. This was followed by a close partnership with The Expert Playing Card Company and CARC to create the Exquisite decks, and working together to innovate and create exciting new projects.

Well, after some research I found that LPCC could fulfill what we need for Aquila deck project, particularity in the areas of card stock, finishing and handling. The other thing that really impressed me is the consistency of the card borders, which are perfectly centered even with a thin border under 3mm.

As an artist, working with LPCC was extremely smooth and fast from the first time I submitted the artwork through to the final approval. The guidance from Lawrence Sullivan was really detailed and the communication was excellent. Being able to collaborate with Lawrence Sullivan from LPCC was such a great experience.

What are a few of your favorite reward levels and why?
I’ve to say my favorite reward level is the Limited Collector Set and Mixed Dual. As a collector for myself, mostly I would buy 2 decks, 1 to be opened and 1 for displayed. And the collector box is nice item for displayed.

Playing card projects on Kickstarter has grown exponentially over the past few years? What are yout thoughts?
Kickstarter has become a great platform for artists and other creators. I have seen a lot of playing cards projects on Kickstarter and I think it is mutually beneficial for both creators and backers to create and enjoy the art of playing cards. Although there are several funded projects that failed to delivered because they set goals that are too low and can not cover the cost of production and delivery. For me as a creator, "PLAN" is the most important thing and ensure the artwork has been approved by the manufacturer before launching a project. It will save your time in a production phase when the project is funded. I have seen a few projects of playing cards that have not been approved by the manufacturer when they launched a project, and ended up with a few design changes, even the worst there are a few projects that can not be manufactured by the same manufacturer that has been promised in the campaign.

With that being said, there are always the greatest, the good, the bad and the worst playing cards projects that I’ve seen on Kickstarter. Backers are more selective, and the decision to bring a worthed project is in the creators hand.

Finally, what are your three favorite playing cards?
+ Monarch from Theory11: I love the linework design and the tuckcase. Classy and elegant.
+ Exquisite by EPCC & LPCC: This deck of playing cards represent a breakthrough in quality and card handling. The consistency of the card borders which are perfectly centered really impressed me, aside from the top notch of the card stock and finishing.
+ Federal 52 Series by Jackson Robinson: The art detail that has been put on this deck are amazing. I would describe the deck with two words : Playing cART :)

Thanks Ade!

Aquila will be available in two editions: Standard and Limited Edition (LE). Both decks are completely unique and 100% customised. The LE deck is limited to 1,500 and features an embossed tuck, custom deal and gold foil. These beautiful deck will be printed by LPCC at the highest quality stock with Legends 'Diamond Finish'. Pledge starts from $12.

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Less Than 48 Hours Remaining for The Card College on Kickstarter

Less than 48 hours remain to get your hands on the special Kickstarter exclusive box set of The Card College by Ark Playing Cards. The eye-catching ELEGANT box set adopts a structural design inspired by the auto sunroof of sports cars.

When you open the gift box, two pieces of cardboard with logo and text will separate slowly, and the playing cards will be revealed. The mechanical structure of the gift box is only made of paper, which is assembled by hand with 8 pieces of cardboard.

Inside, the set contains a set of Midnight Black & Ice White version of Card College decks. There are two versions- the Elegant Box Set and the Deluxe Elegant Box Set. The Elegant Box Set sports a white colorway with champaign gold foil packaging.

Both sets are only available during the Kickstarter campaign. Don't miss out!

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1-ON-1 UnCommon Beat

In late 2012 the designing duo of Scott and Sara Perry, better known in the card community as UnCommon Beat, released their first project via Kickstarter to great support and backing. The deck was Urban Punk, a Graffiti Street Art Inspired Deck that lent itself to the rebellious undertones and punk subcultures.

” We viewed both the physical cards and traditional designs as a “washed out” concrete wall where the bits of stencil-style graffiti imagery are the energizing and vibrant pop”

About a year later the duo once again took to Kickstarter and the release of their second deck, The Black Book of Cards, a beautiful typographic deck that was a complete change of direction from their first project. The unique design concept and intricate detail, along with the “Book” theme that carried through the debossed leather like texture of the tuck and onto each individual card in the deck struck a chord with collectors and enthusiasts alike. Built on a simple statement…

“We all have a card within the playing card deck assigned to us based on the day we were born”

The project funded in approximately 12 hours of launching and kept a steady momentum reaching over 3000 backers.

Currently working on their new project, Manifesto, Scott and Sara were nice enough to find some time to collaborate on this piece and give us all a little insight into UnCommon Beat.

Tell us a bit about how you ended up at this point, with your careers as well as UnCommon Beat:
“After being in the corporate grind for 7+ years in Chicago directly after college, (Scott worked his way up through the ranks at a Software Development Company and I was in the Advertising/Media world working with some of the largest Consumer Package Good Companies in the US), we knew we wanted something different from life and so we made a hard decision to pack up and start out on something new.  We were both excelling in our fields but knew there was so much more we wanted to do that our lives at the time would not allow.  It was not an easy decision, and at times felt like we were stepping off into an enormous unknown abyss.  The short version of the story is that this journey took us across the world and back again, to places like Singapore, Netherlands, England, Vietnam, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Thailand and Mexico.
We’ve experienced a lot during that time, met a lot of amazing people, and it has brought us to where we are today…two dedicated individuals with a combined background in Computer Information Science – Software Development, Graphic Design/Arts, Marketing, Product Management and a whole lot of gumption☺. setting out to create an entrepreneurial experience for our supporters that brings to life new and unique ideas to the market.  Now a days, you will most likely find us with our heads down focusing on what’s next, chatting with our Kickstarter backers, and drinking lots of coffee.”

With the design background you both have, what attracted you to playing cards as a medium?
“Our love of playing cards started with our love of card games.  Eventually this led to seeing playing cards as an artistic medium and collecting.  But it’s not just the amazing designs on playing cards that we find fascinating but the time, attention, and quality of the playing cards themselves.  Not many canvases out there involve a team of nineteen plus people to produce, extremely expensive machinery, proprietary methods/materials, and have such a rich history.  When getting a deck of cards, you get the whole package (beautifully design cards and a well-crafted medium) and we feel that is extremely unique.  Playing cards are a fantastic way to express an artistic idea through an affordable, tangible, and usable medium - something complicated and dynamic yet so compact that it all fits in the palm of your hand. 

That in itself we think is just brilliant.”


The Black Book of Cards is such a unique deck, how much time went into the design concept and creation?
Roughly a year went into the design and concept.  When we started working on the Black Book of Cards, we decided we really wanted to push the envelope with both the design and the concept of the deck which meant doing something we had never seen done before at a scale we had never seen it done.  While coming up with the design idea and refining the concept for the Black Book, we decided there would be two different deck series stemming from the BBoC.  One deck series would focus on the design idea that we created for Black Book and the other one would focus on the concept of the Black Book of Cards – the concept that we all have a card in the deck (mine’s the three of diamonds and Sara’s is the two of diamonds☺) and that every card in the deck should be completely unique, collectible, and a piece of art in its own right.  (This is where the launch of the next deck in the collection comes in…the Black Book Manifesto coming to Kickstarter this July)
When it comes to the design of the Black Book of Cards, we spent months creating and building the different elements…which includes our signature expansion of the pip designs to our approach to achieve perspective and form.  All of these choices were made to achieve a design concept that would both be signature to the Black Book and allow for flexibility in designing future decks using these same design concepts in different ways [i.e., a black book version using pattern, one using symbols, etc.].
All this and the fact that every single card was completely unique, translated to loads of testing, working/re-working and refinement to 54 different designs.  We ran hundreds of test sheets to make sure that every card was something we would be proud to have as “our” card. 

The Black Book of Cards was quite a different direction than your 1st deck, Urban Punk, why a typographic deck for your second outing?
Urban Punk was originally created to accompany a game we had developed where the concept was about changing the rules and doing things your own way.  Looking back now, we can see how Urban Punk truly reflected a lot of what we felt in our lives at the time…the breaking out from the norm, striving to do something different, and celebrating the differences in those around us.  
The Black Book carries on some of the same undertones.  One idea we were hoping to promote through the Black Book was the idea of taking a moment to see and celebrate the characteristics of those around us.  We even tried to continue this via our website through the “Email a Friend their Card” feature.
As for why we chose typography for the Black Book, it was because of two main reasons (outside of our love for typography of course).  The first reason, as we mentioned earlier, was to do something completely new, something that would both challenge our skills AND push the limits on what had been achieved on playing cards. 
The second reason we chose a typographic deck was that it was the ideal way to introduce the concept that everyone has a card, every card is unique, and each card could be meaningful in different ways. 

Do you have a "Creative Process" you go through when coming up with a new concept?
The process typically starts with verbally brainstorming an idea and talking through every aspect of that concept.  This would be followed up by rough sketches, a collage-type draft board to see if the concept has visual appeal.  If we feel like there’s teeth in the concept, we feel passionate about it, and it fits into our current work load, we then move to pursue it. 
Once we decide on the concept, from there, the actual design process can take on different forms depending on the project. In the spirit of our upcoming Black Book Manifesto Kickstarter, we thought it would be fun to share a development piece of the Queen of Hearts.  When tackling the court cards, we envision it almost like it’s a block of clay where we mold the design - continuously refining, adjusting, and shaping to form each face.

One interesting fact about the Manifesto deck is that all of the face cards are based on the Arrco standard court card faces☺.

Outside of card design, do you have any other design projects that you are involved in currently or would like to explore in the future?
We have a host of other design projects we’re currently pursuing but there is one that we’re particularly excited about which, even though it does have a big card design aspect, reaches far beyond.
As we stated earlier, we have plans for a series of decks which will be based on the concept behind the BBoC. 
Since the Black Book Collection is about treating each card as its own piece of artwork based on the notion that we all hold a card within the deck, we wanted to expand on this concept by teaming up with different talent artist to create the art for each and every card.  (A concept that I’m really excited about as I find myself checking every deck I buy for the two of diamonds to see if it’s something I want to put on my wall.) 
This series will not only provide a nice addition to card collections but reaches far beyond into the tangible space.  Imagine walking into an art gallery and seeing 54 paintings from different artist all with cohesive elements representing different cards in the deck.  It’s a way we can help take this medium we have all come to love so much and re-introduce it to others in a new way. 
The feedback we have heard from different artist has been so positive that we could not wait to get backers involvement to help make this series one of a kind.

This is where the Black Book Manifesto comes in.  The Black Book Manifesto deck, which will be launching on Kickstarter July 9th at Noon EST, will be the foundation for this Artist deck series to follow.  How?  To see more about the Manifesto deck and what’s to come…check out the feature page we developed to explain further:  The Black Book Collection: Manifesto

Any final thoughts or comments?
We realize that you’re typically the interviewer but we would like to take a second to ask you a question…a little lazy Susan interview action if you will :). This is completely off the wall and completely goofy but that’s how we roll….☺
If you had to describe your personality as a tuckbox, what would your tuck box be like?  Covered in bling foil, minimalistic, etc…

Well, usually at this point I’m thanking people for collaborating on the piece, but I wouldn’t want to be rude to Scott and Sara and just brush off their question. So, how would I describe my personality as a tuck box, hmmmm, well I would be a dark rich matte brown or other earth tone, with a bold design and intricate line work that would be embossed and gold foiled……..ya, that’s it.  Oh who am I kidding, look up the Bicycle Brosmind deck……..I’m a little goofy and always looking at the lighter side of life ☺

Anyway………I really want to thank both Scott and Sara for taking the time out of their busy schedules to share a little of their background and future plans. The Black Book of Cards is one of my favorites, I love the concept and the tuck on its own is just beautiful, but more so, it was my very first Kickstarter deck, so it holds a special place in my collection, and Scott and Sara were one of the first designers I reached out to, just to make conversation about the product and they’ve been nothing but pleasant and fun to deal with over the last year. That being said, I’m very excited about Manifesto and I encourage everyone to visit the web site for more insight into the project.



You can find out more about Manifesto and all of UnCommon Beats projects, past and present by visiting their web sites UnCommon Beat , The Black Book of Cards ,  as well as follow them on Facebook to keep up to date on all the newest happenings.


This exclusive 1-on-1 is written by Anthony Ingrassia for kardify. No part of this article can be reproduced without written permission from the author. You can check out Anthony's awesome collection at sparkzcollector or follow him on Facebook-SparkzCollector