This is our completion of a set of cards prefigured by El Lissitzky (1890-1941) in a series of collage paintings from the 1920s:...

We have created some cards based on Henri Meunier's Jeu de Cartes Estétique Nº1 of 1900, a Piquet deck commissioned as advertising for...

There is a long tradition of recreating outdoor games with parlour game analogues, partly because people want to recreate the experience...

Artists have always painted cards, and sometimes they have made complete sets of cards as a design project, even if they never became...

It's New Year's Eve, and everyone is talking fireworks, so here, for your enjoyment, is our Hanabi deck. It is a variant of a standard...

On the 24th of January, 1928, Ototaro N. Yamamoto of San Gabriel CA, a flower raiser by profession, patented a new version of Hanafuda,...

A century ago, Western Electric (then the biggest manufacturer of telephones in the world) commissioned Thomas de la Rue to create a...

My brother was recently on East Falkland, and so this seemed an auspicious reason to begin our blog with a game that was actually...