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Designers, we can finally move past building sections and layouts. Threejs is getting easier to make, and we can focus on becoming creative directors.
Using ThreeJS & AI & PeachWeb Builder. I made 3 visual remixes in 1 hour. Just focusing on the brand identity and creative direction. Does that sound like fun?
amazing work done 🔥.
Day 2 of rebuilding my portfolio.
Not just a redesign — a full rethink of how a multidisciplinary designer should present work.
Exploring new ways to structure projects, simplify navigation, and make the experience clearer for both clients and designers.
Design, prototype, iterate.
Love the build-in-public approach. Looking forward to seeing how the portfolio evolves.
Nobody's going to frame your brand guidelines on their wall. And that's the point.
Every year there's a new wave of "design trends" adaptive identity, modular components, flexible color palettes. And every year companies spend months making guidelines that look incredible as a Behance case study and then collect dust in a shared drive.
You know what actually works? a system your marketing team can use without calling a designer. Rules that are clear enough that someone on your growth team can build a landing page that still looks like your brand.
The identity work I'm proudest of isn't the stuff that gets the most likes. It's the stuff where a client's ops team is shipping brand-consistent assets six months later without asking me for help.
That's the job. Making it look good AND functional.
I always have mixed feelings when delivering traditional brand guidelines - more now that brands move so fast. I totally agree with the foundational rules that anyone can pick up later and execute, but that can be, for example, a software that has all the rules built in to...
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