Recently released, El Retro Playing Cards is Pure Imagination Projects‘ homage to the famous El Rancho hotel & casino, the first resort in Las Vegas. Complete with the iconic windmill and flashing light designs, El Retro channels the early days of what became Sin City.
The deck is completely hand-drawn. Founder and CEO of Pure Imagination Projects, Derek McKee, says,
While maintaining a simple aesthetic, we worked hard with Zach Davidson and Olivia Warren to create a stunning back design that brings the nostalgia of old school Vegas to modern times. From pencil sketches to Illustrator vectors, this deck was an experiment in how far we could take hand drawn illustrations — we hope you enjoy ’em as much as we do!
Though the original casino burned down in 1960, El Retro Playing Cards carry on the legacy, lettin’ the good times roll once again at an affordable price of $8! Derek explained,
We at PIP know the feeling — there are so many new decks these days, and prices have increased each year for no real reason other than hype. We wanted to make a deck that was more economical than prior decks in our lineup. Especially in such a stressful time, this is our small way of giving back to the community that has supported us from the beginning.
As always, they are printed on a premium stock and crushed to the perfect thickness, mimicking the feel of past PIP decks as well as those used on the Vegas gaming tables. El Retro Playing Cards are limited to 1500 decks and will never be reprinted, as is PIP tradition.
El Retro Playing Cards are available NOW on Kickstarter. Pledge starts at $16 for two decks.
