Gilas Pilipinas Trading Card Series
Collaboration with Hoop Junkie · March 2025
Following my NBA trading card series with JeffOnSports, I was contacted by Hoop Junkie—an Instagram account with over 175k followers known for its collaborations with FIBA and the NBA. Pat, the account’s founder, commissioned a set of card-style graphics highlighting the Philippines men’s national basketball team ahead of their final FIBA Asia Cup qualifying window.
With just two days to complete the full series—and a 12-hour time zone gap with Pat—I worked through the night to finalize all fifteen cards. Each card was designed with a vintage-inspired template, built in Photoshop using blur, grain, and texture to create a consistent retro tone. I also created a custom “Pilipinas” wordmark in Illustrator, drawing from classical script forms and pairing it with a face family designed by Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli.
The final set dropped right before tip-off and quickly gained traction: over 127,000 views and 6,000 likes & counting.
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