Awesome Cards

Why buy a bunch of greeting cards for birthdays, anniversaries, graduations and other holidays, when you could buy just one? These handy cards let you express your wishes, no matter the occasion.

A hilarious greeting card from Sycamore Street Press. It can be a silly but sincere show of love between bros, or used sarcastically. Be sure to get one for yourself as well for buying a great card.

While the time away or gamble with the high rollers of hip hop. Each card has hand drawn art by Japanese artist Sayori Wada, featuring legendary artists or groups of rap and hip hop.

Artist Mark Crilley starts out with a torn playing card, and challenges himself to draw a photorealistic rendition of the King of Clubs that’s nearly indistinguishable from the real deal.

Jim Tuckwell is working on a deck of playing cards based on Game of Thrones, particularly the Starks, Lannisters, Targaryens and Baratheons. Here are the first 3 cards. We can’t wait to see the rest.

These playing cards have a set of steampunk-inspired gears on their backs, which are designed to animate and rotate as you shuffle the cards. We’re also digging the tune.

Designed by Maria Herrera Vicálvaro and Jamie Vicente, Pixel Cards are a Spanish deck of playing cards with pixelated graphics. Add this deck to your pixel art playing card collection.

A birthday card with a special present inside. Part of the card is a punch-out piece that you can fold to turn it into a shot glass. Available as a bottle hanger or as a normal A2 card.

It was this epic poster for a Mastodon show that first drew us to designer/illustrator John Vogl’s work. Truth is that his great style and clever touch make it hard to find a print of his we don’t like.

A card game in which you play a young velociraptor, and “must eat delicious, adorable prey, survive disaster, mutate and steal the body parts of other Raptors.” Fun for the whole family!

Lisa Krowinski turned the entries from Jared Wunsch’s now defunct website into stationery. Some of the pick-up lines won’t be as effective as they are funny, but there are good ones in the mix.

These flashy playing cards come from Japan’s IDEA International, and are made from spill-resistant plastic. Don’t share this with Donald Trump or he might buy out the entire inventory for his casinos.

Spread the power and good fortune that’s coming around the poker table in 2012 with Fulton’s Chinatown Playing Cards; festively packaged and illustrated, they honor The Year of The Dragon.

Dark Horse Deluxe’s playing cards feature doodles from the master of darkness himself. Keep in mind that only face cards feature his images. Still, a creepy treat for Burton fans.

Cross The Onion with Hallmark and you get Old Tom Foolery. Founders Joel Gryniewski and Lauren Weinblatt makes greeting cards that are letterpressed, sturdy and most importantly, funny.

While this was shot as a promo for a Samsung camcorder, it’s does a better job showing off the precision card-throwing skills of its subject than the quality of the camera. Ad fail. Performance win.

Your Sunday afternoon games of Go Fish and Bridge will never quite be the same with this dramatic deck of cards with inverted white on black details, red hearts and diamonds optional.

Make your greetings stand out from the Hallmark-infested deluge that your loved ones will receive this season with these pop-up cards by Alessandra Mondolfi. There’s even a card for your enemies.

How’s this for a card trick? Pop open a bottle a cold bottle of brew (or Coca-Cola) with Kikkerland’s wallet-sized stainless steel opener, which looks just like the best card in the deck.

You’ve spent days assembling an intricate structure out of tens of thousands of cards. What ever do you do with it when you’re done? You could walk into the middle of it, we suppose.

Saxton Hale would approve of these versatile thank you cards. Just in time for the coming gift-receiving – okay, and giving – season. Show people just how grateful you are, i.e. not so much.

They may look like ordinary Bicycle cards at first, but each deck of fragment design’s new irregular playing cards features slightly-askew card face prints, along with a bright neon green back.

Tang Yau Hoong plays around with the elements of playing cards, changing and adding suits and ranks, as with the Stegosaurus of Diamonds. Can you figure out the name of the other cards?