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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => Diamond Awards Archive => Playing Card Plethora => 2022 Diamond Awards - Nominee Topics => Topic started by: Don Boyer on August 04, 2022, 03:42:54 PM
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Conceived by magician Kellar O'Neil and designed by Chris Tipton, working together as Marvelous Decks, Hummingbird Feathers is an impressive sophomore creation.
The cards and tuck boxes have an iridescent shine to them, meant to emulate the way light is reflected and refracted by actual feathers from a hummingbird. The effect even carries over from the card's backs to select details in the court cards, through the use of textured paintwork and holographic foil. Speaking of the courts, they're real throwbacks to the classic deck designs of the first half of the 20th century, done in an elegant style - the holographic details make them pop.
The decks are manufactured in three colors, red, blue and purple, and in two versions of each, regular and gilded. Printing was performed by Cartamundi, using their popular B9 Slimline stock.
Marvelous Decks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marvelousdecks/?hl=en
Kardify interview with Kellar O'Neil: https://kardify.com/2020/10/the-marvelous-hummingbird-feathers.html
Three deck reviews from YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE7aqDbMDYQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ho8Rnze544&t=411s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgH8BojywBg
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Late breaking news!
I have some photos provided to me by Kellar O'Neil - he mentioned that the ones seen here previously were renders while these images are the genuine article; photographs of the actual deck.
Photos by Frank Cuvin, Sherman Tsao & Matt Fujiwara.
Enjoy and happy voting!
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...and just a few more photos!