Hey everyone 👋 New here! Excited to finally start sharing my work and meeting other creatives on Contra. Starting with KIZEN, a Japanese-inspired editorial poster exploring bold typography, texture, and simplicity. I’d love to connect with designers, developers, and creatives here.

What are you currently working on? 👀

The restraint works because KIZEN takes all the weight and everything else sits at one small size, so the vertical Japanese column ends up doing a lot of quiet work holding the right edge. Currently deep in packaging identity, where that same simplicity always has to negotiate with mandatory copy.

Hello! Sincerely wanting to be a part of a design community for a while now, and I found Contra. I work in-house on a design team in marketing. However, Here, I will be posting my creative passion projects! Connect with designers who share the same passion in making every project better than the last. Designing since 18, I am now 32, and in that period, learning Blender, Adobe, and now Claude has helped me enjoy my work even more than usual! This is a fictional refreshment brand, and the images you see are mostly Pinterest-driven lifestyle photoshoots passed through image generation software. The packaging was used to teach the model how to apply materials and design, the images were mainly pinterest inspos some slightly altered to fit the colors of the cans. You can check the full case study here https://www.lazarstanisic.com/projects/cochaa-blaast Looking forward to connecting!

Rendering the cans instead of dropping them into flat mockups buys you something people underrate: you can throw the same can into six lighting setups and find out which of those colourways still reads on a cold fridge shelf. Does the in-house marketing work feed these at all, or do you keep the two deliberately apart?