Honestly, I came to Contra just looking for work. But somewhere along the way, I realizedHonestly, I came to Contra just looking for work. But somewhere along the way, I realized
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But somewhere along the way, I realized — that's not the whole picture.
I've been in UI/UX for 10+ years, and at some point, you stop just doing the work and start craving something more. The competition. The community. The friction of being around people who are just as serious about craft as you are.
So here I am. Not only to land projects, but to:
— compete in challenges and see how my work holds up against the best designers in the world
— connect with people in my field who actually get what this work is about
— pick up new perspectives from colleagues I haven't met yet
— and give back where I can, because that's how this whole thing works
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Another day of prioritising the visuals and imagining a company that doesn't exist. I promise the next one is a tech brief with barely any imagery at all, I've leaned hard on beautiful photography for twelve days straight.
Concept: a mycelium materials company producing leather, packaging and foam grown from fungal networks. The design deliberately inverts the category's defaults; biotech branding tends toward dark, clinical and electric blue, so this one goes warm and botanical, with a subtle looping video of spores drifting and mushrooms emerging. The copy pulls hard the other way: plain, technical, B2B-direct, anchored by two concrete numbers instead of sustainability adjectives.
Twelve briefs across travel, food retail, personal branding, events, landscape architecture, pet services, hospitality, coffee, lighting, wellness, restaurants and now biomaterials.
12 down, 18 to go.
Built on the Viper template by Westhill Studio, adapted and customised by me.
Designed the website for Dovora — an agency that builds businesses for creators, not brand deals. "We don't represent brands, we don't split focus" is basically the whole pitch, and I wanted the site to feel just as uncompromising.
So no polished stock creator-economy visuals. The hero is a wall of real streamer/podcast footage arranged in overlapping diamonds and rounded frames — actual creators, mid-stream, mid-laugh — with a glowing gradient orb behind bold "WE BUILD CREATOR BUSINESSES" type. It reads more like a highlight reel than a landing page, which felt right for an audience that lives on camera.
The second section flips the energy completely — dark, minimal, almost aggressive typography ("BUILT EXCLUSIVELY FOR CREATORS. FULL STOP.") paired with huge chrome-and-neon 3D letterforms spelling out CREATORS. It's loud in a completely different way than the hero, and that contrast is intentional — this isn't a buttoned-up agency deck, it's built for people who make content for a living.