Baraja Digital
Baraja Digital by Naipes De La Cigüeña, 1990.
Baraja Digital by Naipes De La Cigüeña, Madrid (Spain) 1990
A limited edition of 55 packs, featuring original designs by Antonio García Rúa. Different colours and backgrounds differentiate the four suits and no traditional suit symbols are to be seen.
Above: Baraja Digital by Naipes De La Cigüeña, 1990. Printed by offset. The reverse is white, the cards have rounded corners
By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
Founder and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.
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