Visual studies
PIXIE · The Playing Deck
Familiar cards. A guardian at the threshold.
PIXIE / Creative Experience DecksThe collection · 11 deck entries
Every deck
has a world.
Cards for play, stories for the table, and guides who belong to their worlds. Follow the thread from a familiar suit to a different way of playing.
With PIXIE as your guide. Artwork, written designs and prototypes are identified throughout.
01 / The collection
Choose a deck.
Enter its story.
Each entry brings its card system, visual direction, game relationship and companion into one place. Text specimens show recorded designs where finished illustrations are still open.
PIXIE
Two companion decks, one nonhuman guardian.
Design proposal
PIXIE · The Reflection Deck
Observe. Understand. Choose.
PIXIE / Creative Experience DecksThe Sealed Deck
One four-suit structure, five documented interpretations.
Rules & court documented
The Sealed Deck
Four suits. Four ways to hold power.
Veiled Dominion / Daddy’s Little MortisCourt & visual brief
The Kemetic Dynasty
A court written in lapis and gold.
Veiled Dominion / Sealed DeckCourt & visual brief
The Shinbi Tactics
The court, recast in woodblock ink.
Veiled Dominion / Sealed DeckCourt & visual brief
The Fifth Sun
Obsidian, jade and the architecture of a world.
Veiled Dominion / Sealed DeckAt the game table
Three distinct card systems and the worlds they serve.
Engine source · service retired
Float Cards
Two hidden choices. One reveal.
Sewers & Shadows / Violet’s card tablePaper-playtest module
Break the Grid
Change the response. Or change the system.
Break the Grid / Inpatient CorridorsThe narrative arc
Original hero-card research, with its historical tarot archive preserved.
Original direction · prototype proposed
Return to the Void
Original heroes. Choices with consequences.
Return to the Void / original hero-card researchA thread worth following
Her deck. His system.
A kingdom still to be designed.
The Sufi Tariqah and Systems Quartet meet in the Weaver’s open design problem: how two different ways of understanding power can learn to work together.
Explore the Dueling Systems