Playing Arts: Artistic Playing Cards Inspired by The Future

Imagine this: international artists, designers, and studios have turned playing cards into a crystal ball, showcasing their wild ideas of what the world might look like a century from now. (Spoiler alert: its a mixed bag of brilliance and bizarre!)

Launched on 1 September 2020, a motley crew of illustrators, graphic designers, and visual artists from all corners of the globe banded together to craft what might just be the most eccentric deck of playing cards ever. (No pressure, right?)

Today, when we are living in an era of high, perhaps unprecedented, uncertainty (technology is evolving faster than ever, and the current pandemic proves that we can’t predict what is going to happen even tomorrow), we were curious: how contemporary artists see the world 100 years from now?

Each artist was given a playing card as their blank canvas, and a month later, the