They finally tweaked the design of the fontaines Slightly
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/864244699/air-playing-cards?ref=card

Not playing card related but I had to share this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLazRt8s8Wc

Received my triplicates and sherlock decks. Thank you!

Funded in 4 hours. That'd a bit of an improvement on last time!

Wow, this is going to cause my first public rant on PCF! Here goes...


I made the mistake of joining black club this year, mainly for the decks but the downloads were cool too.

The membership is $150 and you get a free gift (a artifice black and some bracelet thing), they shipped the free gift and labelled it with a value of $150 which I had to pay customs on the full amount of. That in itself is ridiculous because the $150 was supposedly for the membership.

Now they've released their first deck since I joined (more on that in a moment) I almost guarantee that I'll be paying more customs duty if I choose to take it for 'free' as per the black club member deal. So after paying $150 to get all the decks for free I have paid a massive import duty on a black artifice deck and will end up paying effectively double on any of the 'free' decks I get. They will probably cost more in this way that if I just bought them outright.

To top that off, the first deck released since I joined is this? What the hell is this thing? The chainlink fence deck? Barrels have been scraped.

I'm just going to order up the additional 2 black artifices that I can buy as a BC member and stick them on ebay to try and minimise some of the damage. Lesson learnt!

Update: From what I gather this one isn't included in the 'free' decks for BC members anyway. It's a limited release (of 5000)

Are you looking for sealed decks or are open ok? You might struggle to find a sealed blue blood for $40

Yep it took me ages to get hold of a curator deck!

I caught up with Emmanuel this week for a chat about his work. If anyone is interested please follow the link below.

http://www.magasaki.com/#!Four-years-on-Emmanuel-Jose/c16ty/55099b000cf292acc4a9f52e

There's a week left on this project now and it's way over it' funding goal. Not sure if they'll manage to unlock the 2nd deck though.

I caught up with Michael and Perle to find about a bit more about who they are and what brought about this project. You can read the discussion here:

http://www.magasaki.com/#!France-California-and-Japan-as-the-bird-flies/c16ty/550945400cf2393ebb299af5

JP are great they pretty much always use boxes. Never had a damaged deck from them and have bought a lot from there.

This deck has some awesome artwork. I was going to back the book as well so I could get a print but only if they unlock different options on the prints.

I'm not sure that having your friends as the courts will excite all that many backers? I'm also not all that convinced about the strength of the link between architecture, the compass and the vitruvian man? This one isn't for me I don't think but all the best with the campaign.

Also, what collector said!