About Anyone Worldwide (A1WW)
Noel Heath is an excellent cardist in the community. With the help of two cardists from Dealersgrip: Tobias Levin and Nikolaj Pedersen, the three of them created Anyone Worldwide. A1WW is known for their very simple design featuring repeating patterns or texts or country flags. After years of building the brand together, Noel Heath have to quit the brand so he established his own brand of cardistry deck. Later, Nikolaj followed suit to quit the brand as well. So, as of now, the brand is run by Tobias Levin and Brendan Conner.
Collaborations
A1 collaborated with a few of contemporary artists. Their biggest one is with Dan and Dave to reimagined Smoke and Mirror.
- AS IS NYC: A beer bar in NYC specializes in crafted beer and wine, established in 2016
- B. Thom Stevenson: American contemporary artist whose artworks almost looked like photocopy prints
- Face Oka: Japanese artist whose works have the iconic smiley face
- Dan and Dave: Buck twins cardists (and founder of Art of Play) who produced their signature decks called Smoke and Mirrors. A1WW reimagined that brand within their collab
- Tim Lahan: Contemporary artist and illustrator currently living and working in San Francisco, California. He worked with Apple, Nike, Kenzo, GAP. His fence studies involving various artworks showing different shapes of metal fences and his latest work is the icons on variety of sizes with the creepy smile.
- Benjamin Edgar: "An Object Company" - a designer based in Chicago, Illinois. His project ventures to blend a mix of irreverence, intense attention to detail, and a fascination with exploring the application of materials. Gott balances the useful and useless while allowing himself to continue to learn, develop, and play.
- Sabukaru: Sabukaru is an online-based magazine that covers about anime, manga, culture, videogames, art and design from around the world. Based in Tokyo, yet the contents are global. It is founded by editor-in-chief Adrian Bianco, who comes from Germany. Their logo is a stylized letter S in form of a lightning bolt. The collaboration is made in celebration of itβs recent article talking about Anyone and cardistry - the illustrations are made by Johnny Terror.
Total Decks: 93
Why It's Hated?
- Geometric design all over, repeated with a lot of recolors. Some of the design are really that simple, that even rookie designers can do it very easily. It is so easy that anyone can just do it on a very cheap painting software (like Microsoft's Paint)
- There were claims that some of the releases are very sneaky, that many people were caught offguard, and totally pissed that they missed the decks. This was during the Runaway World releases.
- They were opening preordered on three decks at the end of 2020, and they claimed to have promised for the decks to be fulfilled by March 2021, and the decks haven't been finished. And yet, they produced new decks and fulfilled those first.
- Hype over some minimalistic design, and flippers with scalpers decide to torture people with crazy aftermarket prices.
- The shipping rates are very high, yet becomes a factor of why some people are hesitant of purchasing the decks from A1WW.
- No shipping to UK due to the Brexit event, and the problem hasn't been resolved yet (?)
- The sales of the decks start to lose interests, as there are a few editions that hasn't sold out since it's initial releases
- Some of the latest releases are basically reprints of previous editions, thus making this list sort off inaccurate - listed decks might not be in the correct order according to releases.
- A1WW currently have established Color Archive sales, a shop window featuring older editions of Anyone based on designated colors: i.e. Red Archive = any decks featuring red color like Souvenir Japan and Velvet Red CAP; Black Archive = DnD Mirror, Black CAP Logo. The latest window, the Green Archive, suddenly showed up new releases. These windows are quite complicated, as you will need a password to get in and buy the decks. This is not beneficial for people who got the password late or having bad connections. They think that when they sent out the access, EVERYONE will have it at once - but that is not the case. Connections and servers are the factors of how fast someone received something.
- The recent series of "Hand-Made" Playing Cards - the cards are that off USPCC printed deck, yet with a blank back. The idea is to create the back design by hand and/or gilding the cards by hand. This deck comes with a bespoke leather case with a zipper - sold flat at $275. This raises the question whether A1WW is trying to be like other high-end luxury fashion brand. Also, people questioned whether the back design or the card edges will still be fine after use.
NOTE:
Decks assigned color codes for the patterns they use.
- Checks
- OG Logo ["anyone" with small letters, double way]
- Souvenir [country flags]
- Dot
- CAP Logo ["ANYONE" with capital letters, one way]
- 6006 [four shapes of dissected eggs/sushi]
- Houndstooth
- ANYONE [large '6006' logo, one way, slightly curved borders]
- Hand-Made [blank backs with hand-made pattern/gilding]
- Ready-Made [replica of the Hand-Made decks, printed in China]
Double Starred entries shows the collaboration decks
2017
Checks - Black w/ red square
Dot - Red
OG Logo - Black
2018
OG Logo - Purple
Checks - Red
Souvenir - EUROPEAN UNION
Souvenir - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [USA]
Checks - FOREVER Blue R.01 (King of Hearts)
[*][*] AS IS Bombs
OG Logo - Red
[*][*] Dan & Dave Mirror
[*][*] Dan & Dave Mirror Holographic
[*][*] Dan & Dave Mirror Holographic GILDED
2019
[*][*] B. Thom Stevenson Headlong Into Eternity
[*][*] B. Thom Stevenson Headlong Into Eternity - V1 Gallery
6006
OG Logo - Blue
Checks - Black w/ yellow square
Dot - Black
CAP Logo - Green/Purple
CAP Logo - Blue/Gold
CAP Logo - Black
Houndstooth - Black/Yellow
Souvenir - CHINA
Souvenir - RUSSIA
[*][*] Face Oka Kind Time
2020
Houndstooth - Green/Blue
Houndstooth - Red
Houndstooth - Black
Souvenir - AUSTRALIA
Checks - Grey
Souvenir - JAPAN
CAP Logo - Purple
[*][*] Dan & Dave Smoke
[*][*] Dan & Dave Smoke Holographic GILDED
SPLIT - Black CAP Logo/Red Dot
Checks - FOREVER Blue R.02 (Five of Clubs)
[*][*] B. Thom Stevenson Runaway World
[*][*] B. Thom Stevenson Runaway World - SHOWROOM
[*][*] B. Thom Stevenson Runaway World - Miracle Seltzer
[*][*] B. Thom Stevenson Runaway World - V1 Gallery
2021
6006 - Purple
Checks - Purple
Dot - Purple
Houndstooth - Purple
6006 - Purple SHOWROOM
Checks - Purple SHOWROOM
Dot - Purple SHOWROOM
Houndstooth - Purple SHOWROOM
Dot - Grey
CAP Logo - Red Velvet
Checks - Multi Color
[*][*] Dan & Dave Checks Smoke & Mirror v4
GREEN
[*][*] Dan & Dave Checks Smoke & Mirror v5
BLUE
[*][*] Dan & Dave Checks Smoke & Mirror v6
RED
[*][*] AS IS Bombs v2 (5th Anniversary of AS IS)
Checks - FOREVER Blue R.03 (Jack of Diamonds)
CAP Logo - INSANE Neon Yellow
Checks - ROCKSTAR Metallic Silver
CAP Logo - ROCKSTAR Metallic Silver
CAP Logo - IDENTICAL Tan/Green
CAP Logo - SANE Blue Navy
CAP Logo - CRUDE Purple/Red
2022
Dot - MIDNIGHT Crescent Moon on Black
Checks - MIDNIGHT Black Tiles with White Lines
[*][*] Tim Lahan Defenceless
[*][*] Tim Lahan Last Laugh
Checks - XL Black w/ red square
Dot - XL Red
Dot - Green
6006 - XL
Checks - Black w/ blue square
ANYONE - Green
ANYONE - Red
[*][*] Dan & Dave Mirror Foil
[*][*] Dan & Dave Smoke Edge Print Foil
Souvenir - SOUTH KOREA
In Cardistry Con 2022, Anyone did an event where people participated in a run of 5000 miles. The rewards for participation is an exclusive Checks deck. Anyone Worldwide held up a Pop-Up store in Korea, which they released a new edition of Souvenir Deck and the introduction to the line-up of back design pattern. The collaboration deck of A1 with Dan and Dave Smoke and Mirror (White and Black) has an extra two variants that were available during Black Friday sales. The Mirror will have a silver foil on the tuckbox, while The Smoke with have an edge-printed cards with metallic foil along with metallic foil on the tuckbox
2023
Hand-Made - Red Dots Polka
Ready-Made - Red Dots Polka
Hand-Made - Green Houndstooth
Ready-Made - Green Houndstooth
Hand-Made - Black Dots Polka
Ready-Made - Black Dots Polka
Hand-Made - Black Houndstooth
Ready-Made - Black Houndstooth
Souvenir - FRANCE
Hand-Made Playing Cards is basically 'bespoke' playing cards - Blanks made by USPCC, hand-painted in Anyone Studio in Copenhagen, tucked inside a box with repeating pattern of respective design and an embossed A1 logo on the flap stored inside a custom leather box with zipper. Ready-Made Playing Cards is the replica version, an exact imitation of the "Hand-Made" editions, made in China - black tuckbox with custom seal that mirrors the back design. There is a disclaimer note that claims any imperfections on the deck are uniqueness of every deck.
[*][*] Benjamin Edgar A Fifty-Two Card Company
Souvenir - UNITED KINGDOM
ANYONE - Black
ANYONE - Black w/ Holo Logo
Hand-Made - Kisses
Ready-Made - Kisses
[*][*] Sabukaru β2032β
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