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Excited to join Contra University. As a brand designer, I've been exploring how AI tools fit into a process that still needs a strong creative point of view , using them to speed up research, moodboarding, and iteration, while keeping the strategic and visual decisions firmly human-led.
Would love to hear how other designers here are balancing AI-assisted efficiency with maintaining a distinct creative voice. What's worked well for you, and where do you still draw the line?
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9 years of design. First Contra Labs project. Here's what happened.
A week ago I got accepted into Contra Labs as a Brand Designer. This week I completed my first paid project through it.
What's changed since my last post:
Discovery score is now 122, top 5% of creatives overall
Completed my first paid, on-platform project through Contra
What I've learned this round:
Reviews and a complete profile get you seen, but an actual completed project on the platform is a different kind of proof. That was the piece genuinely missing before this.
What I do:
Still a one-person studio. Brand identity, packaging design with production-ready files and 3D mockups, and full website builds, handled end to end so nothing gets lost between design and execution.
Based in Karachi, working with clients globally. Genuinely happy to give back here too, if you're working on your Contra profile and want a second pair of eyes on it, case studies, services, positioning, whatever's not landing, send it over and I'll help however I can.
Congratulations on this achievement. So I would like to take up your offer on getting a second pair of eyes on my Contra profile. Can you check it and give me an honest feedback? Thanks
📡 Get Found. Get Noticed. Grow.
No padding. No politeness. Just a marketing agency that looks like it actually knows how to market. 🖤
Strong work.
There's a $50,000 design challenge running on Contra right now, and most people are misreading the brief. Let me fix that with my own entry.
The Envato challenge isn't about make something with stock and post it, It's a workflow challenge. They want to watch you take Envato's library into a real project, in whatever tool you work in, and show the decisions you made along the way. The walkthrough is the entry. The final asset is just the evidence.
So here's mine: Marigold°, a brand identity for a summer general store that doesn't exist. Nighty and Swash Daisy for the type, Elements photography setting the visual standard, paper, grain and Envato Audio in the final work.
I curated stock into a standard before generating a single image, then rejected every AI generation that didn't belong and put it together.
I mean, $12K first prize, five more $5K categories, and joining gets you a free month of Envato's Plus plan with unlimited downloads and 100 AI generations. Entries close Saturday night PDT.
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