Photo taken at Thingvellir National Park, Iceland. Part of the “Desktop Wallpaper Calendar 2012: May“. All resolutions with and without a calendar are available at Smashing Magazine.

• Smashing Magazine Desktop Wallpaper May 2012
• Direct Download (2560x1440px)

I also ordered this as a 1,60m x 1,20m print on canvas for our living room.

This is how the actual card will look like:

The next update will include some photos of the actual prints :)

I updated the “Queen” card once again and revised the templates for numbers 2-10 and Aces. Read on for a closer look …

Numbers have been slightly modified for better reading (bigger numbers and signs), so recognizing the cards on a larger table and / or with weak light should be no problem now. Next step will be to finish the numbers for all four suits and then get everything ready for printing.

Here’s a closer look at the new Queen:

There are two different versions, one with a calendar for March 2012 and one – you guessed it – without.

With Calendar:

• 1920×1200
• 1680×1050
• 1440×900
• 1280×800

Without Calendar:

• 1920×1200
• 1680×1050
• 1440×900
• 1280×800

Some more resolutions are available on Smashing Magazine.

I really don’t know if this will be the final layouts. Unfortunately I tend to revise everything over and over again until I’m really satisfied. Anyway, at least for now I’m quite confident that these cards are getting close to the final layouts.

As always, here’s a closer look:

Some of the new character sketches:

I’ll keep you up-to-date.

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Meanwhile I also continued working on my Card Deck, finalized the “King” (more details, some color changes) and started working on the “Queen”-card, which will hopefully be finished by the end of the week.

I’ll keep you up-to-date and post an updated preview soon.

Beside of that, Jack, Queen and King will be completely revised:

This is a preview of the current versions of the new Jack und King cards. While “Jack” is final by now, the “King” ist still a work in progress and will get some more details here and there. Here’s a closerlook:

Some character sketches:

I will try to finish the card deck within the next weeks, but there’s still much that has to be done and time is rare.

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So here’s a first look at the card deck I’m currently working on.

Until now, I’m almost finished with the first 13 cards including the numbers 2-10 and Jack, Queen, King and Ace.

Numbers 2 to 10 are actually kept quite simple, as it’s very important to me that you can actually play with these cards without any difficulties in recognizing them. So in general they look like the cards in every other poker or skat set you are used to. Nevertheless, there are some small details that still makes every card unique.

Therefore the other ones, especially Jack, Queen and King are quite different from normal game-cards:

[Jack]

[Queen]

[King]

More details soon.