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I'm a designer from Illinois who has been working as a professional artist in one capacity or another since 1988, but l am relatively new to the playing card design world. A few weeks ago, a friend and colleague of mine introduced me to the concept of designing playing cards. At first I was a little skeptical, but it would be fair to say that has given way to full blown enthusiasm! I spent a good 4 days alone just reading about card history and I'm still reeling about how much there is to learn about playing cards.

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I've already joined http://www.playingcardforum.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; but thought I would do what I could to make the rounds and announce that I'm currently working on designing my first deck with crazy enthusiasm! I'll post more about the deck I'm working on tomorrow in the appropriate forum category.

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in the meantime heres a peek at where I am in the process...

Hi Christian,

Welcome to UC!

Plenty of great folks over at the PlayingCardForum, and actually a lot of overlap in membership here and there. Hope you enjoy spending time with us as well.

Do i see a little bit of celtic influence in the card back image you posted?

Looks nice, hope you show us some more.

I love those card backs. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the deck.

Welcome Christian...

Happy to see a new designer here !