I’ve always loved the illustration and patterns featured on playing cards and it’s obvious that other designers and illustrators do too, there’s some really inspiring takes on the classic deck of cards. In this post I’ve collected a showcase of over 25 amazing custom playing card designs featuring unique artwork. There’s some really awesome intricate illustrations of the four suits as well as some pretty clever modern design concepts.
Lincoln Playing Cards by BlkSmith Design
Diamondback Cards by Aaron von Freter
Archangels by Ginger Monkey
Medieval Manuscript by Blosyak
Altruism Playing Cards by Joshua M. Smith
Robocycle by Luke Bott
Playing Cards Concept by Filippo Marongiu
Casino Playing Cards by Catia Rodrigues
Ahoy Playing Cards by Lisa Nemetz
Ellusionist Arcane by Kenzii
Ellusionist Artifice by Kenzii
Artisan Playing Cards by Simon Frouws
Playing Card Exploration by Hydro74
Lee Terbosic Playing Cards by Joel Felix
Deck of Playing Cards by Pedale Design
The Type Deck by Chris Cavill
Empire Playing Cards by Lee McKenzie
IOTA by Joe Doucet
Minimal Playing Cards by Sam Dallyn
Illustrated Cards by Genevieve Douglass
Modern Playing Cards by Ryan Bugden
Playing Cards by Catherine Isaacs
Animal Kingdom Playing Cards by Theory11
Steampunk Playing Cards by Theory11
Love Me Playing Cards by Curtis Kulig
Monarchs Playing Cards by Theory11
great stuff!!! so many variations.
Some neat ideas in these decks. Playing cards can be so regimented in some ways yet they also offer near so many design possibilities. Kind of why I love design.
Artisan and Steampunk are pretty nice to look at, but I also like the simple design of the Iota cards!
What an amazing collection.
So much detail and skill in these creations.
Really Good stuff ………..the collection is antique type.
Wow! Amazing collections of deck card designs very attractive and shows new perspective, yet retaining the classy nature of the game.
Great stuff, thanks for sharing.
These are all wonderfully designed. There is so much detail, Thanks for sharing!
These are fantastic! Thanks for sharing such an array! Doing a deck is on my list of things to be done!
Fantastic stuff! :) I should give this a shot!
superb card design inspirations and this is my first experience to see cool playing cards to be more exciting if designers did like this. great ideas!
Great post about to playing cards, and your Playing cards collection is also beautiful. Thanks for sharing..
You should check out Dan & Dave Buck’s “Smoke & Mirrors” playing cards by Si Scott. They’re beautiful!
http://shop.dananddave.com/smoke-and-mirror-playing-cards.html
well done chris spooner
You are magnificient
I love you
Thanks a lot chris
super designs especially kurtis culıg’s
Hi Chris , Thanks for lovely blog and thanks for sharing
They are süper fantastic. Well done
These playing cards are really illustrated well – now to figure a way to incorporate similar designs into my web designs!
Very Inspiring