Atomic Playing Cards

Design Brief With this brief we were tasked to research graphic design eras and pick three to inspire some playing card designs, then to pick our favourite concept and to then progress it into multiple playing card designs.

My Approach For my design era, I picked The Atomic Age. The aspects of the style era have always inspired me, and I love coming up with ideas and sketches surrounding it. When going into this I instantly knew that I would be doing the clubs card, as it was the easiest to turn into an atomic explosion. The mad scientist being the Joker also seemed to fit just right when designing.

Technique For the creation of the Joker and Explosion cards, I sketched it out on some paper before moving it over to Adobe Illustrator where I brought them to life with the pen tool and the paint tool, using some gradients for the explosion. The back of the card design, I experimented in Illustrator, knowing I wanted to do something to do with an atom, which is the heart of The Atomic Age. I eventually got to the design we have now, drawing inspiration from the old atomic age movie posters.