Designing a table lamp inspired by  Vietnamese “áo dài” and “nón lá” with @Envato at the centre of my workflow.

Starting from a black-and-white sketch, I built the lamp's ceramic base and rice-paper shade using Envato's AI toolkit, tagging reference materials directly so AI wasn't guessing at textures it can't always read from an image alone.

AI was great at generating options. It was not great at knowing which option was right; I rejected a full batch that technically worked but lost the silhouette I actually wanted, and hand-retouched a detail (the finial) that AI kept leaving unfinished.

The bigger call AI couldn't make: timing this launch to back-to-school season in Vietnam, when áo dài comes back out. That's not a style choice; it's a commercial one.

See the full process and the part AI couldn't do in the VIDEO below. 👇

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Building a high end brand used to require an entire agency, a massive budget, and weeks of studio time. In seven days, I used Envato as my end to end toolkit to build Fronno Pizza from absolute scratch. Developing the complete visual identity, packaging mockups, interior branding, and a broadcast-ready commercial. But raw generation is just noise until a human steps in to direct it.

My primary "Human by Design" moment happened when AI broke down on narrative logic. When generating the commercial, the AI repeatedly rendered the gorillas standing upright in a neat queue, politely waiting for a table. Left to itself, AI gives you a literal, lifeless output. It took human instinct to recognize that a gorilla standing in line isn't just absurd, it's boring. I rejected the raw outputs, constructed character sheets to force visual consistency, established strict edit rules for the cuts, and built the chaotic story energy the campaign actually needed.

The technical execution required the same refusal to compromise. Prompting the Fronno logo as a single unit caused the generated cheese pull to swallow the text every single time. Instead of settling for a flawed output, I used Envato fonts for the base typography, generated the cheese pull element separately, and composited the final vector artwork cleanly inside Adobe Illustrator.

Across the project, I pulled from almost every layer of the Envato ecosystem: stock photos for the 20-pass mascot illustration, Envato Gen AI for texture and scene generation, Envato fonts for the brand design, mockup tools for the physical box, and Envato sound effects to drive the commercial's pacing. AI gave me the speed, but taste, technical intervention, and stubborn direction built the brand.

A machine and a stubborn human in one week.😊 Here is Fronno Pizza.

Your process is just as impressive as the visuals.