Cybersecurity is often visualized through familiar clichés: dark hackers, warning signs, locks an...

Cybersecurity is often visualized through familiar clichés: dark hackers, warning signs, locks an...Cybersecurity is often visualized through familiar clichés: dark hackers, warning signs, locks an...

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Ricardo Gantschnigg

• 13h

Cybersecurity is often visualized through familiar clichés: dark hackers, warning signs, locks and shields. For this edition of Salzburg University of Applied Sciences’ digital “warum!” magazine, the challenge was to communicate security differently—as something positive, trustworthy and connected.

The concept centers on a familiar safety buckle whose strap is woven from flowing streams of data. As the data comes together and locks into place, an abstract digital process becomes a clear and relatable moment of protection.

The project combined concept development, art direction and CGI to create a distinctive editorial cover that communicates a complex technological topic without relying on fear or threat-based imagery. Developed for both static and animated use, the visual introduces the magazine’s central theme while translating digital security into a simple, memorable metaphor.

Creative Direction Digital illustration Illustration Adobe After Effects Cinema 4D

Dina Yeghiazaryan

• Jul 21

Designed 3 posters for a local bar's Sunday jam nights, with Envato as my toolkit. 🎸🎤 Envato gave me hero images, background texture, and animated video. But none of it works on its own. Someone still has to make the calls. Human by Design: AI got me fast raw material. Making it feel like this bar took real decisions - recoloring and chroma-keying a stock video before animating, chasing a grimy texture over a clean AI render, picking one generated scene out of several for its energy - then building the composition and type myself. Toolkit: @Envato Elements, Envato AI, After Effects, Illustrator.

envatochallenge Adobe After Effects posterdesign Graphic Design Motion Design Adobe Illustrator Envato

Isabel Feuerstein

pro

• Jul 21

this is awesome dina!! love the designs

Dario⚡️ Ferrando

max

• Jul 21

You can fix your brain in Brainrot! Turning on Focus mode lets you heal your brain and bring him back to top shape!

Completed work

Figma Mascot Design Mobile Design Illustration

Sandaruwani D

• Jul 21

This looks cool.

Sierra Cook

• Jul 21

Growing up, I've always had what my family and friend/relatives call jokingly "vivid imaginations". Meaning I tend to think otherworldly on a whole other scale that not many people would've thought about, because some of my thoughts may be considered a bit far-fetched or outrageous.

I would always imagine different ideas and scenarios, thinking to myself, "What would it be like if my idea actually became a pure reality with the right tools?" This project is based on a very unusual thought that came across my mind not long ago- whenever I hear the word cabbage, I think of marriage. I basically had an Alice in Wonderland moment and decided to share my vision with the right tools at my disposal for this submission.

I imagined The Cabbage Marriage Wedding as a company-made animated short by an agricultural organization Happy Green Co, expressing an innocent, humorous take on the importance of pure, healthy agriculture.

Direction-wise, this leans towards advertising, a product promo video. To give a glimpse of Happy Green Co's personality and what they can contribute to society through business collaborations and connecting with viewers on a common goal--clean agriculture.

While making this brand and short film, I wanted it to feel personal. I wanted to create something that would put smiles on viewers' faces, so I was careful with selecting the right images to reference (characters/scenery), the font type, color palette, voice acting, sound, music, and animation style based on what I wanted the viewers to see. I imagined myself as the audience.

AI could not think the way I do, nor feel what I feel. To know exactly what I want and reach out to people on an emotional scale. To trigger the right emotions, I wanted the viewers to feel. This is something more than just working with data. It's personal.

Doing this project required me to take control and direct the course of action myself. I was the pilot, whereas Envato was the plane. I made this video and brand into reality, something AI could not do on its own since human interactivity is required.

My presentation of the Happy Green Co's animated short and a thorough behind-the-scenes process- from start to finish- is proof that my human judgment has directed prompt engineering, asset creation, and some finishing touches.

Human by Design