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UI/UX Designer • No-code Builder • AI Architect
Nocturnes of 2126✨
What if Van Gogh and Whistler had painted the night of 2126? 🌙 Nine nocturnes of a future city (robot hounds, rainy delivery bots, air ferries, a tree wired with light), painted with a custom Recraft style built from public-domain paintings at The Met and the Smithsonian.
I went digging through the open-access collections of The Met and the Smithsonian looking for the night. I found Vincent van Gogh’s 1889 Saint-Rémy paintings (Cypresses, Wheat Field with Cypresses, Olive Trees, Irises) for their swirling impasto, and James McNeill Whistler’s Nocturnes (Bognor, Valparaiso) for their deep blue darkness lit by small points of gold. I blended the two into a Recraft style, then chained a second style from its results to lock in a cobalt-and-amber night palette. Nocturnes of 2126 uses that 1889 brush to paint a future neither artist could imagine: robot hounds, delivery bots in the rain, silent air ferries, AR lenses and glass houses with solar roofs, all at blue hour.
The style is public, so try it yourself 👇 KAGE 🍁 (影, “shadow”) is an immersive web experience built from a single painting: a ronin on a cliff above a sea of clouds, under a red sun that never quite sets.
The site opens like a film. A short launch sequence plays in reverse, pulling the blade’s crimson arc back into stillness, then dissolves into the painting itself, which comes alive. From there, the visitor moves through a prologue on washi paper, the seven virtues of bushidō in red kanji, and a gallery of quiet details from the scene, before ending under the red sun.
What went into it:
• Depth from a single image: the artwork is separated into layers, so the samurai moves against the cloud sea as you scroll and move the cursor
• A launch film that hands off into the live painting with no visible cut, with the interface revealed only once it ends
• Falling sakura petals, drifting mist and a breathing sun glow, all as custom code components
• Japanese editorial typography pairing Shippori Mincho with Zen Kaku Gothic, plus a red hanko seal and kanji chapter navigation
• Text that surfaces from blur, chapters revealed on scroll, and subtle hover motion throughout
• Fully responsive, with layouts tuned for desktop, tablet and mobile and a reduced-motion fallback
Visit: KAGE (https://bewildered-company-286451.framer.app/) 🍁
Built in Framer, with custom React components. Northbound🚀: Studio Autopilot
An AI-powered client pipeline for creative studios, wrapped in a hand-built 3D world. A brief comes in, gets scored and routed, becomes a priced proposal, is accepted online and turns into a running project, with no one chasing emails.
Every studio knows the feeling: a new brief lands and the clock starts. Then come hours of reading, qualifying, writing proposals, chasing replies and setting up the project. Northbound turns that whole journey into one automated flow, so a small studio can respond like a big one.
The problem: Creative studios lose their best hours to admin. Strong leads wait days for a proposal, weak ones eat the same time as good ones, and follow-ups slip through the cracks. The work that wins clients is the work nobody has time for.
The solution:
- AI brief scoring and routing. Every brief is read for budget, timeline, goals and fit, then routed one of three ways: fast track, a quick human review, or an honest, helpful decline with pointers.
- Tailored proposals in about a minute. Strong fits get a scoped proposal with workstreams, a realistic timeline and three priced packages.
- Online acceptance and kickoff booking. Clients pick a package, accept online and book their kickoff call on the spot.
- A project that runs itself. Milestones are planned on acceptance, and follow-ups and reminders go out automatically.
- A morning digest. Every day at 08:00 the studio owner gets a summary of new briefs, proposals awaiting review, clients who haven’t replied, and what’s due.
- An owner dashboard showing pipeline, win rate and hours saved, plus a review queue to approve held proposals in one click.
- A live demo console where anyone can send a sample brief through the real pipeline and watch each step happen. Vesper — A Cinematic Art Experience
It is an immersive, video-led website where six paintings and one film come together as a single story about the hour when the light begins to leave.
The aim was to make a website feel like a film rather than a page. The experience opens with a looping cinematic sequence framed in letterbox, then moves through six full-screen chapters that stack over one another as you scroll. Typography is part of the motion too: titles rise out of a soft blur, and lines of text come into focus word by word.
What went into it:
• Art direction built from a single palette of dusk violet, coral and deep navy
• A full-bleed opening film, encoded for smooth web playback, with a separate crop for mobile
• Sticky “curtain” chapter transitions and scroll-triggered text reveals
• Editorial typography pairing Boska and General Sans
• Fully responsive layouts for desktop, tablet and mobile
• A subtle film-grain overlay and cinematic shading to keep every scene consistent
Built in Framer. The walkthrough above is a 30-second capture of the live site, with original motion graphics and score.