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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => Diamond Awards Archive => Playing Card Plethora => 2021 Diamond Awards - Nominee Topics => Topic started by: Don Boyer on September 01, 2021, 08:30:27 PM
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Jody Eklund and his Blank Ink Playing Cards have been leaving their mark and raising the bar for years now - frequently a nominee, not yet a winner. Perhaps this is the year he breaks the cycle? His entry this year is the Umbra deck, a sequel to the Luminosity project from 2019, continuing the story taken from the pages of Norse mythology. Even his "standard" editions are anything but - absolutely luxurious in appearance, they more closely resemble works of fine art straight out of a gallery than tools used to play poker and solitaire...
The cards were printed by the Legends Playing Card Company on their Classic stock.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dominion/umbra-playing-cards-inspired-by-norse-mythology
https://blackinkbranded.com/products/umbra-slate-edition
https://blackinkbranded.com/products/umbra-merlot-edition
https://blackinkbranded.com/products/umbra-noir-edition