These rare print samples are priceless! You shouldn't be able to purchase them. Instead they should be in the collection of a Miami graphic design museum – if there was one. In the 1980s-90s Haff-Daugherty Graphics (H&D) was unquestionably THE printer in Miami as far as all the top-notch graphic design firms were concerned. H&D courted graphic designers by supporting local AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) events and engaging these same designers and design firms to design promotional packages, like these cards, that H&D fabricated and distributed to showcase their production abilities.

The concept for these Playing Cards as well as the design and art direction were by the Image Factory. Lindgren & Smith were the artist representatives for the four illustrators, Susan Leoboldis, Yan Nascimbone, Cynthia von Buhlell and Bruno Paciull. Each artist illustrated a different suit.

Copy on the various items

As the changing of seasons, we at H&D Graphics have taken a new direction. The gift you hold in your hands represents a small token of our esteem and the essence of this direction. Its design is symbolic and will hopefully serve as your introduction to a host of positive changes at H&D.

As you know, we have serviced South Florida for over 28 years. During this time, we have aspired to meet the challenges of the commercial print industry while remaining steadfast in our commitment to provide our clients with quality printing and innovative solutions.

PRODUCTION NOTES:

Yupo Corporation: stock supplier

(flysheet - 51 Ib. translucent text)

(box & cards - 86 lb, cover)

Susan Leoboldis an artist/Illustrator living in Toronto. Leopold's degrees include a B.F.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an M.A. in Medical and Biological Illustration from the University of California, San Francisco. She has won numerous gold, silver and bronze medals, as well as awards from the Society of Illustrators New York, Society of Illustrators Los Angeles, Communication Arts and Print. Her work was on the cover and featured in Step-By-Step magazine and will be profiled in an upcoming issue of Fiberarts magazine.

Leopold's clients include AT&T, Adidas, Bloomberg, BMG Sony, Citibank, The Daily Telegraph - London, Lucent, New York Times, New York University, Proctor & Gamble, Sprint, Simon & Schuster, St. Martins Press, Screen Actors Guild and The Wall Street Journal. 

Diamonds mean many things - luck, wealth, power. They reflect light and are beautiful objects but are mined in harsh conditions where lives are risked. I found the face cards interesting because they also have a duality to their images as icons both light & dark and this fit in nicely with the graphic structure of a card that has to read from both directions.

The cards developed in a kind of Liberace/Vegas direction because of the icons and the materials that seemed to work with them. The number cards are done in metal and scratched out, because diamonds can be harsh, sharp and kind of ugly too.

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Yan Nascimbone spent most of his young life between suburbs in the South of France and Northern Italy. He attended the University of California at Davis where he met Joan, who he married in 1972. The couple have an adopted daughter, Noémie Naoual and a son, Amanzio. Yan has over 30 books to his credit and his illustrations have graced over 300 book-covers for publishers in the U.S., France, Italy and Japan. In 1991, while still collaborating with French and Italian publishers, Yan began working on editorial and commercial assignments for clients throughout the United States.

His illustrations have appeared in numerous publications worldwide, including Time, News-week, The Wall Street Journal and Scientific American. His commercial clients include British Airways, Continental Airlines, IBM, Apple, J. Crew, Ford and Estée Lauder. His work has also been widely exhibited in the United States, France, Japan, England, Switzerland and Italy.

As an illustrator, | often hide important information (behind a door, in the dark of night, in the distance... or off-frame) while add ing unnecessary detail to the image, my purpose being to ignite the viewer's imagination: Here I tried to suggest an interaction between the King, Queen and Jack of Clubs; it is then up to the viewer to imag ine the nature of this interaction - a story - and possibly a connection with the elements that are on the number cards.

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Cynthia Von Buhlell resides and paints at her home, Castle von Buhler, in Boston.

Her antique style began innocently enough by painting climbing vines on the interior Castle walls, which later blossomed into portraits and still-lifes for magazines, albums, and book covers for companies such as The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Sony Records, Penguin Putnam, Viking, and Houghton Mifflin. Articles about Cynthia's work have been featured in The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Step-by-Step, How and Print. Cynthia has shown her work repeatedly at The Museum for American Illustration, and has garnered accolades from American Illustration, The Society of Illustrators, and Communication Arts. Cynthia studied art at The Art Institute of Boston and Richmond College at Kensington in London.

Cynthia also illustrates and writes children's books. Currently she is illustrating a story by Martha Stewart as part of a benefit project by Steven Spielberg.

Being the Countess of Castle von Buhler, I thought that I should make myself the Queen of Hearts and my husband Adam, the King. The Jack is my good friend and art partner, Xavier, Like many Countesses, our castle is in a bit of disrepair. Cracked walls and a few leaks here and there. I recreated pieces of our walls for the number cards. The Queen of Sicants cures all types of heart ailments; the most important of which are broken hearts. She says that if you take a heart milagro, made in Peru, and cry broken heart tears upon it, it will rust. You then take the milagro and nail it into the home of the heart breaker. Within two months you will be healed and the heart breaker's heart will be broken,

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Bruno Paciull earned a Bachelor of Arts in Illustration from Carnegie Mellon University and subsequently worked as an art director in prominent advertising firms in Milan and Bologna, Italy. He now freelances full-time as a conceptual illustrator in the United States repre sented by Lindgren & Smith. He has performed illustrations and directed marketing campaigns for both national and international corporations including Bluecross/Blueshield, Citibank, FILA, General Motors, MicroFridge, and Stefanel. His spot drawings and oil paintings have been featured in brochures and alumni magazines of educational institutions such as Brown University, Fordham University, and Johns Hopkins University as well as a variety of other publications:

Bloomberg Magazine, Business Week, The Chicago Tribune, and Tennis Magazine. He has won several awards, most recently a Best in Baltimore Addy Award. Bruno lives in Baltimore with his wife and three children.

Given the suit of Spades with the suicide King and the one-eyed Jack, I created a story revolving around the Queen of Spades. The king, frustrated in his attempts to please the Queen with gifts, is on the brink of committing suicide. The Jack is left powerless by his naive envy of the king and his love for the Queen, who spurns them both. The Queen is insatiable, and despite the efforts of the lower spades to please her, she nevertheless eats them in a bowl of soup.

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