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DWELL — A Coffee Brand, Human by Design
DWELL is a fictional specialty coffee brand I built from scratch in one weekend, using Envato as my entire toolkit: logo, packaging, signage, sound, and a promo reel.
My "Human by Design" moment: I started in Envato's AI video generator asking for a cozy café, and it gave me something technically fine but completely soulless, a generic bar with no point of view. So I rejected it and made the call to build the reel from real Envato stock footage instead. The same judgment shaped everything: I pushed the logo past a generic coffee-cup icon into an arch with a coffee branch that actually means something, and matched every logo colour to its surface for contrast.
Tools used, all Envato: AI Video Generator, Image Generator, Mockup tool, Envato Music, Sound Generator, and stock footage, finished in Canva and CapCut.
AI got me 80% of the way there, fast. The last 20% knowing what to reject, when to change course, and what actually had soul, was human. That's DWELL.
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What's one creative choice you've made that AI couldn't have made for you?
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Two homepage concepts for film production studio - which one do you choose? 🧐
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This was my challenge with Beau Society, a premium wellness membership in Lyon 💆
Instead of justifying the price, I've built a brand that removes the decision entirely: strategy, creative direction and design, all engineered so that 400€ feels OBVIOUS to the target audience, not expensive.
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