New cover, new visual taste test. As a visual director, the hardest choice is choosing between your own creations. Two covers. Two directions. One choice.

Which one gets your vote?

the blue background makes the orange shapes pop

What's your one-rule brand? Tell me.

Most jewelry brands photograph the object. This one photographs the grip.

AQUILIFER — a brand I built around one idea: jewelry as something carried, not worn.

Case study + full site now live.

The name comes from Roman military rank. The aquilifer carried the standard — the one thing the legion couldn't afford to drop.

That single word killed my first direction before I'd finished it.

No polish. No faceted stones. Hand-cast, asymmetric pieces, tool marks left visible.

Photography went extreme macro, unretouched skin, hands gripping the face instead of posing near it.

Color system: two darks instead of one dark + accent. #1E1E1E and #27331A let the brand shift register — campaign world to product world — without ever going light. #D9DED4 stays structural only. Never a fill.

Motion rule on the site: diagonal masks only. No rotation, anywhere. A spinning object reads as being shown off. This brand is about weight, not display.

Same angle, same easing, top to bottom.

One idea, held all the way through — name, object, photography, palette, motion. That's the whole pitch for how I work.

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