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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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BRAYD Focus Totem
A premium desktop collectible that turns BRAYD into a physical focus ritual object. The same faceted wax body, braided wick, angular flame, stoic expression, and BRAYD wordmark carry the mascot identity into a collectible form.
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Thank you
Nice work as usual! The visual system behind BRAYD is so clean. As a web designer, seeing characters with this much depth instantly makes me want to build a landing page around them. Awesome job!
Thank you that means a lot, especially coming from a web designer. I really wanted BRAYD to feel like a full system, not just a mascot. A landing page around it would actually make so much sense.
Thank you, I really appreciate that. The goal was to make the mascot identity feel simple, but with a clear behavior behind it.
Thats clever and well designed.
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