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My submission Nora's Bedtime lantern to book. I Started out with wonder for a challenge, that was a failure, so I took what I had created and re-directed. I used Envato to create the clips, then moved to Adobe Express for final video. Quite a journey.
Hey @Kecia O'Connor I love to see that you're participating in challenges. Just a heads up that for this challenge, you need to show how you used Envato. This could be a screen recording or screenshots added into your video. Feel free to resubmit a valid entry.
Hmmm ok, not sure how to show the clip creation. May need to do a separate clip. I used envato to generate the clips to create the video. Took some time and lots of credits. If I add to the video, it will need to be at the end. Not sure that flows. I'll make some adjustments.
Built this over a weekend as an experiment with AI-assisted design and development.
Duo Case is an absurd concept for turning two iPhones into a very unofficial foldable iPhone. The goal was to see how far AI could accelerate the process while keeping creative direction, design decisions and final execution in human hands.
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.
Over the last few years, I moved across the full spectrum:
• Branding taught me systems how a mark survives across every medium.
• Packaging taught me physical detail real print constraints, paper stock, and dieline tolerance.
• UI/UX taught me structure frictionless navigation and user behavior.
• Web design taught me how to connect the entire journey from shelf to screen.
Instead of keeping these disciplines in silos, I brought them together into a unified personal archive.
I love how you connect branding to packaging and UX—the idea that a mark has to survive every medium is so true. The case-study grid makes that range feel tangible without losing the thread.