BRAYD: The Braided Focus Flame 🔥

BRAYD is an original mascot created for BURN THE TASK, a fictional productivity ritual brand built around focus, completion, and quiet discipline.

Rather than designing a cute candle character, I built a full mascot system around one clear visual behavior: focused time burns into completion. BRAYD is a braided wick core inside a faceted wax body. As a task progresses, the wick burns down, the wax form changes through clear stages, and the final braided strand becomes a checkmark.

The mascot was designed to stay recognizable across every touchpoint, from the custom wordmark and hero poster to the sticker system, focus ritual packaging, burn sequence, and consistency board. Every asset uses the same visual DNA: the same braided wick, the same faceted wax body, the same angular flame, and the same final checkmark.

This project explores how a single mascot can become the face of a fictional productivity world by turning an abstract idea, focus, into a visual ritual.

Character Brief

Name: BRAYD

Role: The Braided Focus Flame

Personality: quiet, intense, disciplined, stubborn, focused, and encouraging without being soft.

BRAYD does not rush you and does not distract you. He simply burns with you until the task is done. His braided wick represents focused effort, his faceted wax body represents pressure and progress, and his final checkmark represents completion earned through attention.

Recraft Project

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Applications Included

The BRAYD system includes a custom name logo, hero poster, sticker pack, focus ritual packaging, burn to checkmark sequence, and a final consistency board showing the mascot across multiple moments and touchpoints.

Proof of Consistency

Same wick. Same facets. Same flame. Same final checkmark.

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