Architectural playing cards

Archicards

Architectural playing card designs by Italian architect Federico Babina.

Alvar Aalto

Walter Gropius

Card back

Frank Lloyd-Wright

Oscar Niemeyer

Zaha Hadid

Le Corbusier

Charlotte Perriand

“When I was young, I used to build a house with cards: why not use architecture to design cards?”

(via The Guardian)

See also

• Chess set architecture — Designing chess pieces seems to be a little like designing typefaces, but there are, perhaps, stronger architectural connections.
• Black & White: A ’70s board game about race, housing, and privilege — This satirical Monopoly-esque board game was made to underscore the socioeconomic disparities between Blacks & Whites.
• A game designed to be played in the distant future — Inspired by ancient board games like Mancala.
• An attempt to draw All the buildings in New York