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Rebel Yell
A born rebel with no respect for rules. One of my favorite original characters, inspired by the raw energy of Dope and the visual language of underground comics.
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Meet Leva
Leva is an original character created for an animated story - from the first visual concept and character design to a complete animated film. His world, personality and visual language were developed as one consistent story.
Adorbs! Reminds me of Merida's brothers!
I made an app.
A slightly different project for me.
For years, I’ve tracked my daily habits using an orange Post-it note. Write down what I want to get done, tick it off, start again tomorrow.
I’d tried habit tracking apps, but always ended up back with the Post-it. I didn’t need dashboards, streaks, graphs or endless features. I just wanted something simple.
So I decided to build it myself.
Takto is my first iOS app — designed and built from scratch, taking it from an idea and some early Figma designs through to a real product on the App Store.
As a UX designer rather than a developer, a big part of the project was seeing how far I could push myself outside my usual role, using AI to help me actually build and ship the thing rather than stopping at a prototype.
The result is deliberately small. Add your habits. Do them. Tick them off. Your progress gradually fills the screen throughout the day.
No grand startup plan behind it. I wanted to make something I’d genuinely use, learn how to build a real product, and actually get it out into the world.
Quite nice seeing something that started as an orange Post-it sitting on my desk become an actual app.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/takto/id6796480445
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Clean design👍
I put together a quick visual identity exploration for @Elis Cole after seeing their brief and spending time thinking about how the artist’s sound and personality could translate into a cohesive visual world.
Instead of making it overly literal, I explored two distinct directions:
Cool and moody A darker, more atmospheric direction with a restrained and cinematic tone.
Warm and energetic A brighter, more vibrant system with more movement, warmth and immediacy.
The goal was to show how one artist identity can hold different emotional expressions while still feeling cohesive and recognizable.
This is the kind of work I love: translating sound, feeling and personality into a visual language that can live across cover art, social media, promotional material and future creative direction.
Would love to know which direction feels stronger for Elis Cole: Cool and moody or Warm and energetic?
Cool and moody feels stronger to me. It gives Ellis Cole a more distinctive, memorable identity, while the warm direction could work really well as a secondary visual language for specific releases or campaigns.