Zetaw
ArtMX Artist
Zetaw
Custom cards, made like artworks
Zetaw is a French artist, born in 1982. He grew up on 80s and 90s pop culture: music, manga, comics, TV and streetwear. He started with tags and graffiti. In the mid-90s he taught himself Photoshop. In the 2000s he made flyers and mixtape covers for local artists, in the loud, shiny Pen & Pixel style.
He studied visual arts and art history and did two years of art school. Then he kept a day job and made art on the side. In 2018, he found his old Dragon Ball card binders from childhood, and he started making his own cards: manga and anime first, then sports cards.
Since 2020 he has tried every custom-card method he could find. He works from his studio in Lyon, called the STUDIAW, with a small crew. He calls his work “100% gangcrafted”. He is also a collector himself.
On ArtMX
His series SITH AIN'T NUTHIN' TO F_WIT dresses Darth Maul in the costumes of other famous characters. Each card is on Metal Chrome, and each costume is made only once.