Bicycle Robocycle
Bicycle Robocycle playing cards with quirky robotic illustrations by Duct Tape & Glitter for Theory 11.
Designed by Duct Tape & Glitter for Theory11, and printed by the United States Playing Card Company in 2011, this Robocycle pack is full of whimsical details and quirky robotic illustrations. See the box►
The pack was produced in two alternative colour combinations - black and cloud-blue. The court cards are robot-inspired and are clad in circuit boards and geometric motifs; the jokers look like robotic jesters, and the back of the cards is designed to appear like a chip board and circuitry (note the screw in each corner). There is a specially designed Robocycle ace of spades, but otherwise the pip cards are standard – though the black suits are a cloud-blue colour rather than the traditional black.
Above: Bicycle Robocycle playing cards designed by Duct Tape & Glitter for Theory11, printed by the United States Playing Card Company, 2011.
By Peter Burnett
Member since July 27, 2022
I graduated in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University in 1969. It was as an undergraduate in Moscow in 1968 that I stumbled upon my first 3 packs of “unusual” playing cards which fired my curiosity and thence my life-long interest. I began researching and collecting cards in the early 1970s, since when I’ve acquired over 3,330 packs of non-standard cards, mainly from North America, UK and Western Europe, and of course from Russia and the former communist countries.
Following my retirement from the Bodleian Library in Dec. 2007 I took up a new role as Head of Library Development at the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to support library development in low-income countries. This work necessitated regular training visits to many sub-Saharan African countries and also further afield, to Vietnam, Nepal and Bangladesh – all of which provided rich opportunities to further expand my playing card collection.
Since 2019 I’ve been working part-time in the Bodleian Library where I’ve been cataloguing the bequest of the late Donald Welsh, founder of the English Playing Card Society.
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