GiliLabs Festival Sneakers

This edit focused on giving the sneakers a stronger visual presence while keeping their original shape, details, materials, and overall identity intact.

The main challenge was refining the product without making it look artificial—especially around the edges, textures, shadows, and small surface details. I carefully balanced the lighting, contrast, color, and background to make the sneakers look clean, realistic, and visually sharp.

The final result is a polished product-focused visual that feels naturally photographed rather than heavily edited.

Balancing product editing to look this natural without losing the realism of textures and lighting is a serious challenge. The final result feels so authentic and grounded.

A little visual experiment inspired by the nostalgia of Hindi film posters -mixing typography, texture, colour, and a few of my favourite things. 🎧✨

Setting डिज़ाइनर at the same weight as the Latin is what keeps it reading as one masthead instead of a translation parked underneath. The hand-painted posters this nods to had to carry across a street at night, which is where those brutal colour separations came from — are you...