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Pharmacy Playing Cards brings together pharmacy related suits and illustrations that you’ve never seen before to enliven your favourite card games.

If you are inspired and want to know more about medicines speak to your local pharmacist. They are the medicines’ experts.

Postage and packaging

Postage and packaging | Delivery details | £2.50 UK | £10.00 Overseas

How to play

Pharmacy Playing Cards contain the usual set of 52 playing cards comprising four suits of 13 cards each and two lovable jokers (in the guise of skeletons to remind us of what we are made and that life is short – play more). You can play any game that you could with a standard set of playing cards so it’s up to you really. Whatever you play you’ll be reminded of the amazing systems that make up our bodies and the medicines that we use to help keep them ship shape and shine.

About the designer

Gavin Birchall is a pharmacist, designer and marketer who has worked in pharmacy for 20 years, at the bench, in hospital pharmacy, primary care, representation, academia and was Operations and Marketing Director and Superintendent Pharmacist for an award winning pharmacy group before setting up DOSE Design and Marketing in 2015 and DOSE Publishing in 2018. He now works with pharmacy people helping them to develop robust marketing strategy and world class brand identity. Gavin completed the first global research into the brand of pharmacy as part of Masters in Graphic Design and studied marketing with Professor Mark Ritson. Learn more about Gavin.

First published: April 2022.

Language: English

Dimensions: 62mm x 100mm

Scale: 56 cards

Colour-way: Black and white

Artwork

4 B&W body system illustrations

4 B&W suit illustrations

Paper & print detail

Printed by Ivory Graphics Ltd. Playing cards on 305gsm Heretic black cored playing card board and tuck box on laminated 350gsm Zanta Box Board.