{"id":13613,"date":"2026-06-09T07:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=13613"},"modified":"2026-06-09T07:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:49:08","slug":"the-night-time-is-the-right-time-for-these-magician-designed-playing-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=13613","title":{"rendered":"The Night Time is the Right Time For These Magician-Designed Playing Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s not that playing cards haven\u2019t always had sophisticated illustrations, but I don\u2019t think they\u2019ve always been respected as such by the masses. Magician and designer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bydestino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Destino<\/a>\u2018s two decks for Bicycle are two fabulous examples of what the space is capable of.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nocturnal is built around an owl emerging from an impossibly dense Victorian naturalist illustration. On the other hand, Serenity takes the opposite emotional stance but with the same design discipline, placing four white doves in symmetry at the center of a churning cosmic field of navy, hot magenta, and electric blue. It\u2019s all about the contrast between absolute stillness and surrounding chaos. What makes both decks exceptional as design objects is that the visual language doesn\u2019t stop at the box. There are botanicals, reillustrated court cards, and hidden starfields inside the flap that all carry the world of each deck into every single card in the hand. Destino builds complete systems where the box is just the intro to the beautiful world within.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<button id=\"expand-paywall-button\" class=\"expand-paywall-button\">Subscribe to Read More<\/button><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/the-night-time-is-the-right-time-for-these-magician-designed-playing-cards\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not that playing cards haven\u2019t always had sophisticated illustrations, but I don\u2019t think they\u2019ve always been respected as such by the masses. Magician and designer Destino\u2018s two decks for Bicycle are two fabulous examples of what the space is capable of.\u00a0 Nocturnal is built around an owl emerging from an impossibly dense Victorian naturalist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[6900,6668,6901,6902,6903,6904,6905,6522,6906,4149,6907,6908,6909,6676,6910,6911,6912,6913,6914,6915,6916,6917,6918,6919,6920],"class_list":["post-13613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news","tag-bicycle-playing-cards","tag-botanical-illustration","tag-botanical-pip-design","tag-card-back-design","tag-card-deck-design","tag-collectible-playing-cards","tag-collector-deck","tag-collector-packaging","tag-cosmic-design","tag-cpg-design","tag-destino","tag-dove-illustration","tag-emilysleights52","tag-illustrated-packaging","tag-illustration-system-design","tag-kickstarter-design","tag-limited-edition-cards","tag-mandala-design","tag-nocturnal-playing-cards","tag-owl-illustration","tag-playing-card-design","tag-serenity-playing-cards","tag-tuck-box-design","tag-united-states-playing-card-company","tag-victorian-naturalist-illustration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}