This one is for all the overthinkers out there. Meet Notto A small creature made entirely outThis one is for all the overthinkers out there. Meet Notto A small creature made entirely out
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Mahdis Karimi
• Jul 3
This one is for all the overthinkers out there.
Meet Notto
A small creature made entirely out of thought.
Every mind leaves things behind: unfinished ideas, buried memories, questions we never answered. Notto is what happens to those traces.
Its personality lives entirely in its head, because that's where the thinking happens.
Calm, curious, overwhelmed, or inspired, it's always shifting, never twice the same.
The body stays constant underneath it all: quiet, grounded, unmoved. That contrast is the whole character. One part of Notto never changes. The other part never stops.
The process:
It started with just a silhouette. Every mascot you actually remember, you remember as a shape first. Before color, before detail, before anything else.
If the outline alone can't carry the identity, nothing else will save it. So that's where the exploration began: stripping the character down until the silhouette could stand on its own.
From there, the system built itself around one rule: the body stays constant, the head doesn't. The head is a living visualization of thought: every line is a memory, an idea, a question, a curiosity. Calm settles into smooth, rounded orbits. Curiosity pulls the lines outward. Overwhelm tightens them into sharp angles. Inspiration lets them glow and wander into color.
Every thought leaves a shape. Explore the full project here: https://www.recraft.ai/project/ebf1d1f9-f0f0-4c53-bf0d-90d6ce1b05a7
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Mahdis Karimi
• Jul 3
Same body. Different mind. Every time. 🧵
Notto's whole design rule: the body is fixed, the head is alive. This batch shows the system holding up across formats, merch, logo, collectible render, full spec sheet. Same character, same rules, zero identity crisis.
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Mahdis Karimi
• Jul 3
Same body. Same rules. Completely different headspace.
From left to right: calm and dreaming, scattered and overthinking, wired and overstimulated, quietly content, anxious and closed off, alert and searching. The body never moves. The head never lies.
This is the whole system in...
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Mahdis Karimi
• Jul 3
Notto has been overthinking since the beginning of time.
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Nicolette .
• Jul 4
he's so real omg. love this design, what a great way to make people feel they can identify without ever dipping into glamorizing what's definitely more of a drag in day-to-day life. SO smart, kudos to you for thinking this little dude up!
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Mahdis Karimi
• Jul 6
Ahh, thank you Nicolette! That was exactly the intention, I wanted him to feel relatable and a little imperfect. I'm happy that came across.
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Mahdis Karimi
• Jul 6
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