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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => Diamond Awards Archive => Playing Card Plethora => 2019 Diamond Awards - Nominee Topics => Topic started by: Don Boyer on August 11, 2019, 05:15:59 AM
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This year could be a big one for Jody Eklund of design studio Black Ink Playing Cards - he's a double nominee in the Diamond Awards. In addition to being selected for Deck of the Year for his work on Top Aces of World War II (a sequel project to last year's Top Aces of World War I), he's been nominated for Artist of the Year for that deck as well as his Devastation Silver Edition (a new edition of the Devastation series, a deck release dedicated to the people who create massively-destructive weapons of war) and Golden Spike 150th Anniversary Edition (a revision of his 2014 project, Golden Spike/Bicycle Golden Spike, timed for the sesquicentennial of the epic project which connected the Western and Eastern United States via railroad, paving the way for greater emigration and settlement in the West).
Kickstarter page for Top Aces of World War II (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/910678389/top-aces-of-wwii-playing-cards)
Kickstarter page for Devastation Silver Edition (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/910678389/devastation-the-silver-edition-playing-cards)
Kickstarter page for Golden Spike 150th Anniversary (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/910678389/golden-spike-150th-anniversary-edition-printed-by)
Interview with the artist by EndersGame conducted December 2018 (https://playingcarddecks.com/blogs/all-in/q-a-with-playing-card-designer-jody-eklund-black-ink-playing-cards)
Black Ink Playing Cards home page (https://blackinkplayingcards.com)
Jody Eklund's artist home page (https://jodyeklund.com)