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Brand Designer + Shopify Developer — Wonderwild Experiences
Wonderwild is a premium, playful family-events brand launching in Toronto. We need one exceptional designer/developer to turn our existing creative direction into a cohesive brand and custom Shopify website.
Scope: refine brand identity (logo polish, colour/type system, icons and templates); design a polished brand/pitch deck; and design/build a responsive Shopify site. It needs event pages with Ticket Tailor embedding/linking, birthday-package sales, merchandise, email capture, and a rich past-events image/video section.
You have strong visual taste, experience building elevated Shopify sites, and can make a family brand feel magical, modern and premium—not generic or childish. You work in Figma, communicate clearly, and deliver editable source files plus a hand-off-ready Shopify build.
Please share 3 relevant brand/Shopify examples, your exact role on each, expected timeline and fixed-price proposal.
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Now the honest caveat. These aren't hard rules. A content operation at massive scale, or one that needs a specific plugin ecosystem, might lean WordPress instead of Webflow. A startup with heavy custom needs might justify a fully custom Webflow build over Framer. The point isn't the exact mapping.
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Pick the platform for the outcome you want.
Not the one you're most comfortable defending.
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For VELTRIX, I explored:
1: Bold, technical, performance-first
2: Minimal, editorial, luxury-first
The goal wasn’t just to make both look good. It was to see how design changes the way a Shopify brand is perceived.
Which direction works better: 1 or 2?
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