Artisan Playing Cards | Eames "The Little Toy"

Toys are not really as innocent as they look. Toys and games are precursors to serious ideas. - Charles Eames. Artisan Playing Cards | Eames "The Little Toy" pays homage ----- Description ----- Toys are not really as innocent as they look. Toys and games are precursors to serious ideas. - Charles Eames. Artisan Playing Cards | Eames "The Little Toy" pays homage to The Little Toy, a small variation of The Toy. 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.”  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. Artisan Playing Cards | Eames "The Little Toy" comes in a letterpress-printed tuck case printed on sustainable paper using vegetab