Carles Dalmau - January 2022

Carles Dalmau x Magpie Playing Cards - January, 2022 

Born in the costal town of Tossa de Mar, 24-year-old Carles Dalmau is based in Girona Spain. When he was younger, his goal was to win the lottery and become part of the Illuminati. But since that hasn't worked out so far, he instead attended university to study Audiovisual and Multimedia Communication.

We asked Carles to tell us a bit more about himself, here's what he had to say:

What do you hope to do with design in the next 5 years? "I hope I can pitch a cartoon show or a videogame and have it released! That has been one of my dreams since I was little."

What is an interesting fact about you? "Hmmm, I don't know if it's an interesting fact, but I'm autistic. Being like this is an absolute mess for me socially speaking, but I think it helped me a lot to be able to focus this much on my work!"

Why did you agree to this collaboration? "I think it's a fun idea to have a card deck with my drawings! I never played cards and I don't know how to do it, but I remember when I was in elementary school I collected joker cards. I still have a ton of them at home. I really think a card deck is a fun item to have, even if you don't know how to play it!"

Carles is an incredibly popular and busy artist and designer, so we feel extremely fortunate to have him on board as our first artist-collaboration designer!