While also in the first college year in ESAD (College of Arts and Design) in the Communication Design course, in the scope of Digital Laboratory subject, I created my own deck of Tarot cards.

The work proposal was to make 8 illustrations to elaborate a Tarot deck of 8 cards and their verse, common to all.

The professor gave us a long list of Tarot name cards and in the first place we should choose 8 of them. After choosing we should elaborate a moodboard as soon as we choose the aesthetics of our cards and in what media we whould work, photography, illustration, collage etc. the expression was free.

The cards should be presented in print. As a complement, we should develop a piece to store the set of 8 cards (a ribbon, box, envelope, or other), with a graphic record consistent with the cards.

In the final we should develop a proper presentation and talk about the whole process and justify our choices.

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My work

As the Tarot has a mysterious ambience around it, I decided that my cards would have that ambience too, but in a more original way. As I usually take a lot of photos and love photography, I decided to do my work based in photography and then illustrate some details in the cards.

I resorted to some abandoned places I usually go to do the photos to each card.

After this firt phase and after doing some adjustements to the photos, I started illustrating in photoshop and illustrator some other important details to the cards, as the tittles of them.

After this long process I printed them several times and finally got them as I wanted. I cut them and rounded the corners.

Before I do my final presentation I also developed and painted a wooden box in a similar style to the cards, after this, the cards were placed inside the box.

In this work everything was made with a purpose, as each card as specific elements that accentuate the meaning of each card.

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Here you have the 8 cards and the last one is the verse, common to all the cards.

The last pictures are the cards already printed and together with the wooden box.