The Mucha Playing Cards is a new project by TCC Playing Cards inspired by the work of a master artist- Alphonse Mucha. He is a well-known Czech painter well-known for his gorgeous Art Nouveau style and the designer of the first Czech postage stamps and early banknotes.
Even if you do not know the story behind the artwork, just the charming appearance of the artwork itself would cause one to be mesmerized. This personal style is known in Japan as “ミュシャ style”, which combines style elements of the East and West. The elegant depiction of silhouettes and contours in Japanese prints. The rich colors and geometric decorative effects of Byzantine-style art. The delicate and sensual depictions of Baroque-style art.
In terms of the playing cards themselves, TCC has crafted a luxurious deck to match. The artwork on the face cards reflects Alphonse Mucha’s strong personal style and can be described to be a combination of Eastern and Western art. Influenced by Japanese Ukiyo-e, with sensual moldings, brief silhouettes, and crisp watercolor effects. The rich colors and geometric decorative effects of Byzantine-style art. The art is pure, direct, undisguised, and beautiful!
The one-way back design features stunning foil added to certain parts of the design in colors corresponding to the tone of the card.
The decks are kept packaged in a tuck case printed on high-quality pearlescent paper. The fine pearlescent particles give it an excellent texture. The embossing outlines the beautiful characters and enhances the illustrations on the tuck box.
There will be five editions available during the Kickstarter campaign:
Two Standard Edition (Gismonda Standard Gold and Princess Hyacinth Standard Silver). Both decks feature full illustrations on the card face, index with no pips, gorgeous pearl paper tuck box with foil, luxurious metallic ink, and redesigned custom tuck seal.
Two Limited Holo Editions (Job Holo Blue and Reverie Holo Green). The decks are only available as boxed sets and showcase full laser HOLO illustrations on the face cards, index with no pips, gorgeous pearl paper tuck box with foil, stunning metallic ink, and custom numbered tuck seals (limited to 500 each).
One Special Edition (Zodiac). The deck comes with full illustrations on the card face, index with no pips, a gorgeous pearl paper tuck box with foil, and redesigned custom tuck seal.
All 5 editions share the same illustrations on the face cards. Only the box and back designs are different. Pledge starts at $15 on Kickstarter (scheduled to launch on the 13th of April).
