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"Client brought the idea. I brought the polish. 🐉📚 Refined Painted Pages Bookstore's mark into a moodier black-and-gold palette — a sleepy dragon guarding a stack of rare books, now in both circular badge and landscape banner formats, fully editable and print-ready. Warm green or deep charcoal — which would you have picked?"
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Finally get to share this one — been sitting on it for a while and couldn't post until now 🎉
Designed the full landing page (and a bunch of product screens) for XRS, a prop trading platform. The idea: traders pass a funded-account challenge, trade the firm's capital, and keep up to 80% of the profits.
Prop trading is a pretty saturated space and most platforms look the same — dark UI, generic trading stock imagery, nothing that actually sticks. So instead of the usual playbook, I leaned into a black-and-gold identity — including custom, hand-crafted illustrations built specifically for this project (the glowing spheres, gradient icons, all of it) instead of stock assets or generic 3D packs.
Some of what's in there:
— Custom illustrated icons for the 3-rule system and "trader to fund manager" journey
— Floating reward/payout cards as social proof right in the hero
— A plan selector so people can pick account size, currency, challenge type
— Trustpilot ratings + a testimonial section for trust
— Support + FAQ blocks, because people are putting real money on the line
Genuinely proud of how this one came together — every visual element built from scratch for the brand, full case + more screens are up now, finally 👀
This came out great, the black-and-gold direction feels so much more premium than the usual trading platform look.
Brilliant exploration! Love the understated, moody color palette and the subtle atmospheric depth. The texture and grain are handled beautifully, giving it a raw, photographic quality without any jarring visual noise.
Feels so real.
TOO HOT: PosterCam Lens 🔥
For the Contra × Easy Lens challenge, I decided to take a slightly more serious direction.
With heatwaves becoming increasingly common across Europe and the rest of the world, I created a series of movie posters about global warming. Each poster has a face cut-out, so you can become part of it yourself.
Hopefully, a quick selfie can also spark a conversation about climate change.
Easy Lens Link: https://easylens.snapchat.com/lens/06a6f0d8-f7bc-7605-8000-b9e54281e807
Snapchat Lens Link: https://www.snapchat.com/lens/cf139b05f2f34f438acf463fad95c0e9
TOO HOT is such a good title, and the face cutout selfie mechanic turns a static poster into something people will actually screenshot and share. Which poster took the longest to nail, Meltdown Mode or Wildfire Couture, or did one come together almost by accident?