Pirate themed Playing Cards, utilizing artwork by Don Maitz (creator of Captain Morgan Spiced Rum logo).

The overarching idea for this deck design was to create a direct comparison between all the different permutations of glyph combinations, and the endless amount of possibilities a deck of cards offers us. This design was born from a deep interest in typography and the search for unconventional typefaces that push the boundaries of form, with the goal of creating a deck design that challenges the preconceptions of what a deck of cards can look like. The typeface used as building blocks for this deck was designed by my friend, and talented French type designer, Charles Quirouard. From there, I adjusted its curves, proportions, and specific dimension to properly fit my vision for this design. The moment I began experimenting with his typeface I realized it would look great as a back design. This quite abstract typeface has many beautiful moments that I wanted to highlight, but I couldn't include all 26 letters of the alphabet in one back without it feeling cluttered and chaotic. That's when the fitting decision of making a deck with 56 different back designs surfaced.

Dragonlord is a playing card full of Chinese style, the Dragon is the main totem of Chinese Culture, in the eyes of the Chinese people, it is changing thousands, omnipotent, it symbolizes freedom and perfection. TCC and Sam's original design is based on the Chinese tradition culture: Dragon. Take this as the theme, supplemented by modern stlye of carefully design, which is embodies incisively and vividly in the card box. The card is dominated by mottled black and white, representing the long history and the precipitation of wind and frost, as well as the meaning of blessing. Each card is taking a long time to deliberate and delicate grinding, especially the Ace of Spade, the special designing is expressing the time change of the dragon, vernal equinox, the cloud to spilt fog, autumnal equinox latent deep, the allusions of hidden into the mustard. Dragonlord is not our creation, but the ancestors left us. And what we can do, is to do everything we can to discover the legacy that ancestors have left for us, and try to get USPCC and Sam to join us in presenting this incredible and mysterious treasure in the form of playing card, trying to get them to carry our unique beliefs, artistic ideas and dedication, Return to the top of the world art!

Unique steampunk artwork can be found throughout this deck. The court cards and pips are all custom drawn to highlight the gears and steam of the Victorian Era. The original campaign, funded in Kickstarter, was launched and funded in 2015 by the artist Nathanael Mortensen (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1657065264/steampunk-beginnings). Nevertheless, the creator couldn't fulfill his promises and Albino Dragon rescued the designs and was able to print the deck in 2017 (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1460165270/albino-dragon-playing-cards-0).