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This project focused on creating a clean and modern Substack publication for a lifestyle creator sharing personal stories, creative inspiration, and everyday experiences. The publication combines minimal design with editorial structure to create an inviting and highly readable environment.
The homepage highlights featured articles while maintaining an organized archive that allows readers to easily browse past content. Careful attention was given to typography, whitespace, image placement, and navigation to create a premium reading experience.
The final design helps reinforce the creator's unique voice while encouraging audience engagement, subscriber growth, and long-term reader retention through a polished and professional publication.
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Fractured Signals is an ongoing editorial print project exploring underground music culture, analogue media and independent publishing.
For this challenge, I used Envato AI as a creative collaborator throughout my design process.
I began by researching visual references and building mood boards before using AI to explore textures, imagery, and composition. Rather than generating a finished design, I used these outputs as raw creative material, selecting, refining and combining them into a final poster in Photoshop using assets from the Envato library, including typography.
To test whether the design worked beyond the screen, I developed a series of physical print applications, including fly-posted street posters, a zine cover and record shop flyers. Seeing the work placed into realistic environments helped me evaluate the design as an editorial print system rather than a single digital artwork.
This project explores how AI can accelerate creative exploration, while human judgement, editing and creative direction shape the outcome.
Ultimately, I wanted to answer a simple question: Could an AI-assisted design exist as a genuine piece of print culture?
For me, the final stage wasn't generating an image. It was testing whether the work could exist in the physical world. By developing a street campaign of posters, publications and flyers, I explored how AI-assisted design becomes tangible through human editorial decisions, print thinking and real-world context.
🎥 Watch the full creative process here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_VFHQtZ5ZU
Thank you to Envato and Contra for creating a brief that encouraged experimentation, exploration, and creative dialogue.
This is a really strong take on the brief. I like that you didn’t treat AI as the final designer, but as part of the exploration process, and then tested the work through real print applications. That shift from screen-based experimentation to physical editorial context makes...
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Just added a new build to my portfolio: OMNI, a dark editorial template for creative studios and agencies.
The brief I set for myself: make a portfolio site where the case studies do the selling, not the copywriting. So every project page pulls from a structured CMS (gallery, stats, client quote) instead of hardcoded content, which means it's genuinely easy for a studio to keep updated without a developer.
It's live and free to grab for now (may become a paid template later). If you're a studio, agency, or freelancer who wants a premium, no-fuss portfolio, or if you just want to see how I structure CMS-driven builds, check it out here: https://www.framer.com/community/marketplace/templates/omni-studio/
Open to project inquiries if you want something custom-worked.
