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A portrait can hold more than a likeness.
For this private birthday commission, I built an Art Nouveau–inspired visual system from a couple’s own symbols: a bird and a fish, Virgo and Taurus, morning glory and hawthorn, rings, and a blue-green palette.
The challenge was to keep every symbol specific to them without letting the ornament overwhelm the sitter—and later to revise the profile for a closer likeness without disturbing the surrounding structure.
The full case study follows how an open brief became one cohesive keepsake.
When likeness, atmosphere and personal meaning pull in different directions, which should lead?
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eally ambitious, well done.
Extra Olives needed a pixel-accurate, fully responsive Framer site built from their existing Figma designs.
The goal: translate their brand identity into a fast, polished, and visually consistent website, without compromising a single detail from the design vision.
Figma + Framer
How close did the final build end up matching the Figma file pixel for pixel? With that footer row of client logos I'd guess something always needs to flex a little between design and a live responsive build, curious if that held true here.
Amazing!
