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I'm in the US for a couple of weeks and I keep spotting these neon signs. So I designed my own, Desert Rest, as a flat still, then asked ChatGPT to bring it to life with the new GIFs
What still of yours would you bring to life with a GIF? Show me 🙌
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From Spotify to Spookify! 😂🦇 Such a creative twist on a familiar brand. Love this! 👏❤️
What would Spotify wear for Halloween? 🦇
I don’t usually like to design using well-known brands, but this one was too fun to skip hahaha
Concept: Spotify → Spookify 👻
- Went with a gothic stained glass window + with bats on the frame
- The original 3 sound waves are now claw...
I design Framer websites for B2B brands for a living... then a video player challenge showed up and I lost all self-control 😮💨
Most players on the web look the same: a black box, a thin bar, a play icon you've seen a thousand times. And when a team asks "can the player feel like OUR brand?", the answer is usually "sure, we'll change the colour".
So for the Video.js Skins Design Challenge I built Afterglow 98. A late-90s player window that drives a 3D computer sitting in a dark room. Press play and the camera pushes into the tube while the window tucks away (move the mouse and it comes back). View flips between the screen and the whole room 📺
The look was the fun part. The real work was making it behave like a proper player: Space or K plays, the arrows seek and change volume, F goes full screen, C turns on captions. Chapters, hover thumbnails, a phone layout, and calmer motion for anyone whose device asks for less of it.
To be fair, nobody needs a CRT in their player (I'm aware 🤡). But a skin is the first thing people feel before the first frame... and a grey box never made anyone feel much.
It streams from Mux and it's live on my site's lab page, so you can play it right now 👇
Which one would you ship on your own website, the safe skin or the weird one? 👀
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Sometimes one tiny detail is enough to build an entire brand identity.
Koto just redesigned Giffgaff, and my favourite part is how they've turned the final “f” in the logo into a small arrow.
That simple shape becomes the foundation of the whole visual system, appearing across the website, app, packaging, and marketing materials.
They've also introduced a bold acid-green palette, a custom typeface called Giffsans, and a more natural approach to photography.
What I like most is that the identity doesn't feel like a completely different brand. It's still recognizably Giffgaff, just more confident and expressive.
A good reminder that strong branding doesn't always require reinventing everything.
My favourite use is the arrow turning into the "Next" button in the app, so the logo literally becomes UI. I do something similar in presentation templates, where one shape from the logo ends up as the section divider.