Hi Contra Community, Dropping in my recent work for a Development agency, Need Insights on the design but I'm already Starting to work on the improvements. Your comments can be helpful.
Another day of prioritising the visuals and imagining a company that doesn't exist. I promise the next one is a tech brief with barely any imagery at all, I've leaned hard on beautiful photography for twelve days straight.
Concept: a mycelium materials company producing leather, packaging and foam grown from fungal networks. The design deliberately inverts the category's defaults; biotech branding tends toward dark, clinical and electric blue, so this one goes warm and botanical, with a subtle looping video of spores drifting and mushrooms emerging. The copy pulls hard the other way: plain, technical, B2B-direct, anchored by two concrete numbers instead of sustainability adjectives.
Twelve briefs across travel, food retail, personal branding, events, landscape architecture, pet services, hospitality, coffee, lighting, wellness, restaurants and now biomaterials.
12 down, 18 to go.
Built on the Viper template by Westhill Studio, adapted and customised by me.
Ferré is an agency template designed for creative studios, design firms, and independent practices looking to present their work with clarity and confidence.
Built around an editorial visual language, this template combines bold typography, subtle interactions, and an immersive layout to create a sophisticated digital presence. Showcase your work, introduce your studio, share ideas through a journal, and give potential clients a clear sense of what you do.
When we work with founders, companies who sell to bigger companies, the same thing comes up.
The product or service is good. But the deck looks like one company, the site looks like another, and the copy says the same sentence every AI company says.
With a startup client that doesn't cost you much. One founder tries it and decides.
Inside a bigger company it's five people, and most of them never speak to you. Someone in procurement, someone in security, a VP who hasn't heard your name. They pass your deck and your site around and decide without you in the room.
So we start with the brand and build the site on top of it, so both say the same thing.
The Volition wordmark on that painted landscape makes the infrastructure feel grounded instead of abstract. The custom mark in the i stays quiet enough that the building still leads.