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Spent most of my Sunday experimenting with poster design.
What makes this piece special to me is that I didn't start with a concept, a sketch, or even a clear idea of what I wanted to create.
It began with a blank canvas.
Throughout the day, I kept collecting and combining different elements – typography, textures, images, shapes, and small details. Slowly, the direction started to reveal itself, and this poster became what it is now.
I love how it evolved into something dark, dramatic, and a little mysterious. The kind of atmosphere that wasn't planned from the beginning but emerged naturally through the process.
Projects like this remind me that design isn't just my profession or a way to earn a living. It's also something I genuinely enjoy. Sometimes the best part is simply exploring, experimenting, and seeing where an idea takes you.
Here's the result of today's creative session. ✨
Amazing design! 😍😍😍
This is absolutely stunning! The textures, dark typography, and that dramatic lighting create such a powerful, cinematic atmosphere. An incredible result for a blank-canvas session! 🖤❤️✨
The dark, dramatic, and mysterious atmosphere you captured is incredible 🖤🤍 Sunday sessions like this are so healing 😊
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Every brand, product, and creative idea carries a feeling behind it. Yet translating emotion into visual expression remains one of the most intuitive and subjective parts of the creative process.
Emotion Lab is an interactive creative playground that explores how emotions can become visual systems for creation.
Built around six emotional states, each experience unlocks its own curated visual language, featuring color palettes, gradient behaviors, and emotion-driven creative mechanics. Users can experiment, remix, and generate unique visual outcomes while staying true to the emotional character of the selected state.
Emotion Lab explores emotion not as inspiration, but as a creative framework.
Project Link:
https://untie-unit-65592182.figma.site
Community Link:
https://www.figma.com/community/file/1648425635877147408
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Found Type - A living alphabet, found in the wild
Found Type is a collaborative web app where people photograph letters of the alphabet found in the real world - on walls, signs, buildings, packaging, pavements - and together build a living typeface made entirely by the world.
The premise is simple: letters are everywhere. Every one of them is a design decision made by someone, somewhere. Found Type turns that into a collective archive.
Try it here: https://slogan-noise-47844386.figma.site/
✨ The experience
- A pannable, zoomable canvas of every submitted letter - alive and growing in real time
- Browse the full alphabet: each letter a mosaic of real-world finds from around the world
- Type any word and see it spelled out in found letters
- Submit your own: photograph, crop, tag, and your letter is live in seconds
⭐ What makes it different:
No accounts. No friction. One flow, one purpose. The more people contribute, the more beautiful it becomes.
📍 How it was built:
- The entire front-end was built in Figma Make, prompt by prompt, iterated screen by screen.
- The submission flow uses the Anthropic Vision API to validate every photo: confirming it shows a real letter, checking the tag matches, and generating a plain-English description stored in Supabase for moderation - meaning the collection stays clean without user accounts or manual review of every submission.
- Image processing happens entirely client-side via the Browser Canvas API: crop, resize to 800×800, compress - before anything reaches Supabase storage.
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- Browser Canvas API - client-side image processing
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- A downloadable font made entirely from submitted photos.
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- Contributor profiles.
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