Eames "The Little Toy" Playing Cards
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Inspired by the works of Charles and Ray Eames
A tribute to one of America’s most influential design team.
Overview
Eames "The Little Toy" Playing Cards
Originally released in 1952, The Little Toy was designed to inspire creative construction through a series of colorful panels, wireframes and connectors. For playing cards, the components were used to create a minimal numbering system where the small connectors act as edge markings for quick reference.
Eames Playing Cards come in a letterpress-printed tuck case printed on sustainable paper using vegetable-based dyes. The design of the box references the famous home built by Charles and Ray, a creative base where they lived for many years. Made in the USA.
Dan and Dave
Art of Play, Eames Office
United States
Design Inspriation
The Eameses created The Little Toy as a small variation of The Toy (Pictured). In contrast to its larger predecessor, which was made for people to play “in,” Charles and Ray made this design for children and adults to play “with.”
Using the primary shapes and colors from The Little Toy we were able to bring new life to the Eames classic composed within the constraints of small rectangular pasteboards.
Toys are not really as innocent as they look. Toys and games are precursors to serious ideas.
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Charles & Ray Eames
Charles Ormand Eames Jr., a nearly-licensed architect born in St. Louis in 1907, and Bearnice Alexandra “Ray” Kaiser, an abstract painter born in Sacramento in 1912, are cemented into the canon of 20th-century design. Since uniting in 1940, these partners in life and work have been internationally recognized at the forefront of the design, architecture, filmmaking, and furniture communities.
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