Enikő Katalin Eged already has three designs in the Paperwallet lineup. Tokyo Lights was a Passport Wallet. Fish Market in the Dawn Glow was available as both a Micro Wallet and a Slim Wallet. Peaks was her first Micro Wallet release. On April 7, she added a forth: Cat Bingo, a new Micro Wallet that goes in a completely different direction from her previous work.
From Cityscapes to Cats
Eged's first three Paperwallet designs were atmospheric. Tokyo Lights captured the glow of Japanese city streets at night. Fish Market in the Dawn Glow zoomed in on the organized chaos of an early-morning market, with stacked crates and hanging lights. Peaks set a landscape with simplicity but purpose. All three were moody, and grounded in real places.
Cat Bingo isn't any of that. It's a checkerboard grid of cat faces on alternating black and cream squares. Twelve cats, each one different. The name comes from the bingo-card layout, not cats actually playing bingo. It's simple, graphic, and immediately readable.
What We See in This Design
Every cat in the grid has its own personality. There's an orange tabby with narrow eyes. A black cat that's all silhouette. One wearing a blue bonnet. Another in a red hood. Some look suspicious, some look annoyed, a couple look like they're plotting something. The expressions are all hand-drawn with bold black outlines, and no two faces repeat.
The color palette is tighter than you'd expect. Mostly black, orange, and cream, with small hits of blue and red on the hooded cats. It's not a rainbow. The limited palette is what makes it work. The contrast between the black squares and cream squares gives each cat its own frame, like a grid of tiny portraits.
What stood out to us during production: this design reads well at wallet scale. Some illustrations lose their charm when you shrink them down, but Eged's cat faces are drawn with enough weight in the linework that every expression stays clear even on a Micro Wallet. You can tell all twelve cats apart. That matters when you're looking at this thing up close every day.
A Returning Collaborator
Paperwallet has worked with hundreds of artists over the years, and many of them come back for multiple collaborations. Eged is one of those returning artists. When someone's work translates well to the wallet format, the relationship tends to keep going.
What makes Eged's contributions interesting is the range. Tokyo Lights, Fish Market in the Dawn Glow, and Cat Bingo are so different from each other that they could be by three different artists. But they share something: density. Eged fills every available inch of the design surface. There's always something to notice, whether it's the reflection of neon lights on wet pavement or a cat in a blue bonnet giving you side-eye.
A Different Audience
Eged's previous Paperwallet designs appeal to a specific crowd. People who like Japanese urban aesthetics, people who collect travel-themed accessories. Cat Bingo opens a different door. Cat lovers are everywhere, and they tend to buy things with cats on them. That's not a knock on the design. It's an observation about reach. This wallet will land with people who might never have looked at Tokyo Lights or Fish Market.
For us, that's part of why we're excited about it. It brings a new audience to an artist whose other work they might then discover.
The Micro Wallet Format
Cat Bingo is a Micro Wallet, Paperwallet's compact format. It holds 6 to 8 cards and folded cash. About credit-card-sized when closed, roughly 1.3mm thin. Made from Tyvek, so it handles water, sweat, and daily pocket wear without showing damage.
If you already own one of Eged's other designs and want Cat Bingo in a different format, the Micro is the only option for this one. But if you haven't tried the Passport Wallet format yet, Tokyo Lights is still available in the Passport Wallet collection.
April 7
Cat Bingo launched April 7 in the Micro Wallet collection. Limited edition. When it sells out, it's gone.
Fish Market in the Dawn Glow moved through its initial run faster than most new releases. Cat Bingo has broader appeal, so we expect similar demand. Browse the full collection to see all of Eged's work alongside other artist designs.
