Crowned with blossoms and citrus, Queen of Nectar embodies the harmony between nature, transformation, and the sacred feminine. Her butterfly eyes perceive the world through dual lenses—clarity and mystery—while bees serve as symbols of community, devotion, and the intelligence woven throughout the natural world.
Encased in honeycomb-like armor, she wears sweetness not as fragility, but as strength. Surrounded by fertile landscapes and golden skies, the figure emerges as a guardian of abundance, intuition, and renewal, honoring the cyclical rhythms that connect growth, decay, and rebirth.
Created through an intuitive digital collage process, the work developed organically through the layering of symbolic imagery, allowing its narrative to emerge gradually through composition and atmosphere.
I’ve been razzmatazzing and flibbertigibbeting with Claude Code and somehow ended up with a new yels.dev.
It finally feels like me: simple on the surface, slightly complicated underneath, and very much alive.
You can see who I am, what I do, the work behind Herodot, RaptorLabs, CyberLink Security and Solmint, plus a selection of projects I’ve built across AI, cybersecurity, Web3, product systems, education, archives, and experimental digital spaces.
The simple-on-the-surface, layered-underneath idea comes through so clearly in the presentation. I especially like how the project archive turns the site into something to explore rather than just a résumé of links.
From my notebook's sketch to a brand's actual logo working on the brand identity for Lovi till playing around with the branding for Lovi ( fun ,cozy little candle brand), but I kind of loved how the logo turned out. Lovi is a cozy, artisanal candle brand characterized by a warm, dreamy aesthetic and a deeply personal touch. Its visual identity centers around a fluid, hand-lettered script logo featuring organic, sweeping curves .
Interesting that the final kept the sketch's looseness but tightened the one thing that mattered: the L now loops back under the word instead of dangling off the left edge, which is what makes it sit on a label. Did the pen version ever go through a fully clean vector pass, or...