The Deck by AIGA Wichita

[Räpylätassu]

The Deck is a collaborative community project where designers each show off their skills by designing the front of a playing card. The 52 card deck celebrates the uniqueness and diversity of Wichita's Design Community. Participants joined us back in January at Harvester Arts where we all played a game to determine who is designing which card. With their suit selected, everyone stuck around to socialize with fellow designers and started off a brainstroming sesh to gain inspiration.

Here you can see every single card in this deck

You can buy one from here for 15 USD.

A pretty cool looking art deck, a lot of decks have been made by different people using the same concept of several designers each designing one card but I do like this one more than some of the other ones I have seen.

[Decknowledgy]

Actually looks more unique than the Playing Art series!
The faces if compare to the Playing Art series has more freedom like simple tinkering with pips to full-bleed art. The PA series tend to lock the artists' designs into one unified frame with the same blank background.

[hsbc]

ART DECK ART DECK YESSSSS

[Harvonsgard]

Back design is kind of a letdown compared to the faces.

[Entaro]

This is great, to be honest I didn't know art decks was a thing. I have a pair of ultimate decks but I thought it was a one of a kind idea. Love a lot of the designs on these but yea I wish the back was up to the same level, it's pretty much just OK.

[Strag]

Out of stock. That said, back design is one way and disappointing. Shame as I do like the art.

[hsbc]

Knew I should have ordered ASAP If anyone happened to grab two of these and wants to sell one please let me know

[rorschach]

Knew I should have ordered ASAP If anyone happened to grab two of these and wants to sell one please let me know

And if anyone grabbed three, i'm right in line here too.

[Entaro]

Out of stock.

Glad I grabbed it when I did I wonder how many they made because I wouldn't have guessed this was the type of thing to sell out or I would have bought more lol

[rorschach]

After some research it looks like this site also sells them and has 30 left in stock: https://shop.theworkroomict.com/the-deck.html. Hoping someone who is still interested in this deck can help me get my hands on one as they only seem to be shipping in the US.

[hsbc]

Hoping someone who is still interested in this deck can help me get my hands on one as they only seem to be shipping in the US.

YES great find, thanks! Where do you live rorschach? I grabbed an extra

[traaaf]

Nice. Ordered a deck. The 10 of Diamonds is awesome.

[rorschach]

Hoping someone who is still interested in this deck can help me get my hands on one as they only seem to be shipping in the US.

YES great find, thanks! Where do you live rorschach? I grabbed an extra

I'm up in Canada. If you are willing to part with that second deck, you can send me a PM. Thanks.

[hsbc]

I'm up in Canada. If you are willing to part with that second deck, you can send me a PM. Thanks.

That's why I got two Canada's easy, consider it yours! I'll PM you once I actually have the deck if that's okay

[rorschach]

I'm up in Canada. If you are willing to part with that second deck, you can send me a PM. Thanks.

That's why I got two Canada's easy, consider it yours! I'll PM you once I actually have the deck if that's okay

Thanks!

[brownsl]

I received my decks today. I really love the cards, I think they look great! However, I am disappointed in that the cards are sealed but the decks are not and all my tuck boxes are in what I consider to be poor shape. If they were sealed, I think they would not be so worn. BTW, I ordered them from the Workroom. I am curious if those that ordered from Vortex Solitaire, will receive decks with worn tucks.

[traaaf]

Yeah, got mine today as well and the tuck box had torn tabs and really roughed up. Cards were sealed in cellophane inside the tuck box. Mine were from the workroom. Bad enough shape that i'll be asking for a refund.

[Entaro]

Got mine today, ordered from vortex and they were in good shape though I understand how they can get easily damaged they were wrapped in paper lol no celo no seal and a price sticker on the back right on the tuck lol afraid to try and remove it since the quality leads me to believe it won't go ez lol

[hsbc]

Yikes a price tag stuck to the tuck??

I ordered from the Workroom and was worried after seeing these comments! But my mail carrier showed mercy and my decks were fine It could have been a lot worse, they just put the two unsealed tucks into a padded envelope

Honestly I’d be happy even if the tuck were shredded, the cards are awesome












Best card

[brownsl]

I agree, even though my tucks aren't in the greatest condition, I am keeping them as I think the cards are awesome.

[Entaro]

Yikes a price tag stuck to the tuck??

Yea that's what I mean I'm worried trying to peel it won't go well lol guess I can Yolo one

[Entaro]

for anyone who liked/bought this I had reached out to AIGA Witchita's president to ask about who had printed the deck (USPCC) and she mentioned they are planning on coming out with another one around August

[Entaro]

for anyone who liked/bought this I had reached out to AIGA Witchita's president to ask about who had printed the deck (USPCC) and she mentioned they are planning on coming out with another one around August

It was also asked if people could provide some of their favorite card backs so maybe they can get some ideas to improve it in the future

[Harvonsgard]

That's some very interesting news. Thanks for going an extra mile Entaro.
Card back recomamdations are hard though without knowing the faces. E.g. the Oath Standard back design is hands down one of my favorite all time, but it wouldn't fit an art deck like this the slightest.
Stranger & Stranger did a very nice job on their Ultimate deck with the back design.

[traaaf]

After buying the deck and looking through it more in person, there are definitely some cards that are much more interesting than the others. My top 5 favorite cards are

Q Clubs
10 Diamonds (probably my single favorite)
3 Hearts
2 Spades
6 Spades (2nd fav)

[GandalfPC]

The second edition is back in stock now….

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[balrog326]

They have more I just purchased one earlier after reading your post and then it said sold out again however after checkin again now an hour later shows another in stock so I guess they are just selling 1 at a time?

[GandalfPC]

Yes, I see they are in stock again - perhaps they are trying to keep anyone from grabbing up a bunch of them and have no way to limit it in the store otherwise…

11 in stock at the moment - so I guess they are putting up a brick at a time

[AIGA Prez]

Hi there!

Hope this little note finds you all well! My name is Josh, I'm the current AIGA President of the Wichita Chapter. I'll be sure to make an introduction post but wanted to happily share our new deck with you all on this thread, too!

We've made a new Deck at the end of last year with 50+ artists and designers contributing artwork to each of the cards! I'll attach a few promo shots we made to share it. There are more images of the deck on our sales website here: https://www.thedeckbyaigawichita.com/ We have a limited print run that includes metallic ink on fine linen paper for our 2nd press edition that's still available.

We are, of course, using this to help raise funds for our small organization as well as get all our awesome artists and designers names out there! Many of them shared their work on their socials, which we linked on this page of the site: https://www.thedeckbyaigawichita.com/artists

Anyway, I'm off to pick up my kiddo, but I'll be back later to make the introduction post. I do hope it's ok for me to post here; if a new formal post would be best, I'm happy to do that, too! Thanks all, I hope you have a fun-card-full day!

[ALBERTO68]

Do you ship to Italy?