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What if stock isn't just a collection of assets? What if it's the memory of our species?
That single thought reshaped every creative decision that followed.
Instead of telling a story about AI, I chose to tell...
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For the Contra x Envato Challenge, 'Human by Design', we built a brand identity and animated a promo video for 'Olo', an accessible crypto-trading platform.
To us, the core of this challenge wasn't about creating more content with AI, but about maintaining one clear creative direction. When drawing from a massive library of separate AI generations, stock footage, fonts, and music, a project can easily turn into a disjointed visual mess. Envato served as our entire toolkit - from AI-generated audio and assets to stock templates and typography.
But every asset still had to answer one crucial question: 'Does this truly feel like Olo'? Guided by the brand promise of making crypto trading accessible for everyone, everywhere, human instinct drove the entire creative process:
1. Curating over generating: Rejecting raw AI outputs that felt flat or out of context and ruthlessly filtering for what actually worked.
2. Building a visual identity: Applying custom effects to transform generic stock footage into a unified aesthetic.
3. Directing the flow: Motion design, precise typography, and timing every single movement to the rhythm of the music in After Effects. Envato Stock and AI tools dramatically accelerate the build process, but it’s the human creator who infuses the soul. It provides the ingredients, but art direction, taste, and instinct define the quality of the final result.
Toolkit: Envato (Envato AI, Stock, Fonts, Audio) + After Effects & Adobe Illustrator.
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Every bottle tells a story. ✨
MOVA is a personal care brand built around one idea — that how you smell is an extension of who you are.
I designed the full visual identity from scratch: brand strategy, hand-drawn pattern, packaging, and 3D motion.
Blender + After Effects 🎬
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a piece of advice from a designer who started at 12 and is still figuring it out at 21:
the work matters. but so does the rest.
take breaks.
go outside.
close the laptop.
stop waiting until the project is done to feel okay. it's never fully done.
charge what you're worth. say no to bad fits.
pick clients you actually want to work with.
learn the idea behind the design.
learn the offer.
learn why it works.
and talk to people. other designers, other freelancers, people doing something completely different.
it helps more than any course.
you don't have to have it all figured out at 21. or 25.
or ever, probably.
just keep showing up and doing good work.