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Afton & Sebastian • Branding & Web Design

maxToronto, Canada

Cofounders & Creatives at Regent Park Studio

$250k+: Earned

29x: Hired

5.0: Rating

1.1K: Followers

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Cofounders & Creatives at Regent Park Studio

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English At The Ready

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Kin & Co | Branding + Framer Website Design

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Parallasse Hotel | Hospitality Brand Design

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Kajabi Concept Website for Its New Era

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proToronto, Canada

Building memorable identities through strategic design.

$1k+: Earned

1x: Hired

5.0: Rating

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Building memorable identities through strategic design.

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Helping a youth tech education organization in Rwanda build the visual credibility to match their ambition - through strategic brand identity and guidelines. WithIn Tech runs coding bootcamps for young people aged 13–20 in Kigali, Rwanda, with a philosophy rooted in doing, not just studying. As they prepared to grow - attracting donors, partners, and institutional support - their existing brand couldn't carry the weight of where they were heading. I rebuilt the full visual identity system from the ground up: logo, typography, colour palette, pixel-art graphic language, and comprehensive brand guidelines. The strategic challenge was balancing tensions - tech-forward without being cold, youth-focused without being childish, rooted in Rwanda while speaking to broader ambition.

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Made to Be Felt Event Design & Creative Direction | Girl Effect / Nike Foundation Role: In-house Designer | 5 Years Background Ni Nyampinga — meaning "a girl who is beautiful inside and out and makes good decisions" in Kinyarwanda — was a youth brand created by Girl Effect, backed by the Nike Foundation. While the magazine was the heart of the brand, events were how Ni Nyampinga showed up in the world — how girls and their communities experienced it in three dimensions, together. Over five years on the in-house creative team, I worked on several events alongside my editorial work. These were some of the most ambitious productions the brand ever did. Turamurika — The Hero Campaign Turamurika was the largest campaign Ni Nyampinga had ever undertaken. The word itself carries the spirit of the event — a celebration of what girls can achieve when the people around them show up in support. The campaign ran across all four provinces of Rwanda and reached more than 2 million young people. The creative challenge was scale without losing intimacy. Turamurika had to feel like a celebration no matter where it landed — in a major city or a rural community — and it had to feel unmistakably like Ni Nyampinga. Our team provided the artistic direction, produced all the physical materials, and executed the project on the ground across every province. The visual language was bold and joyful — saturated colour, playful signage, flags and wayfinding that turned event grounds into Ni Nyampinga space. On the ground, it looked like a brand showing up at full volume for the people it was built for. This was team work in the truest sense. I was part of a creative team of 4–10 people depending on the production phase, working alongside freelancers, producers, and Ni Nyampinga's wider staff. What I'm most proud of is the contribution I made to a project that genuinely belonged to everyone who touched it. 5th Anniversary Celebration For Ni Nyampinga's 5th anniversary, I led the design and production of a more intimate celebration marking five years of the brand. I created the event theme, designed the physical materials, worked with printers, and oversaw the installation on site. The event became a moment for the team, partners, and community to reflect on what the brand had built — and to set the tone for what came next. High-Level Stakeholder Event A separate event was designed specifically for high-level decision makers in Rwanda — a very different audience from the young people who read the magazine. The tone needed to shift without losing the brand. I worked on the design, execution, post-production, and installation, creating an environment that felt elevated and serious while still unmistakably Ni Nyampinga. It was a useful exercise in understanding how a brand flexes across audiences without fragmenting. What Events Taught Me Editorial design asks you to guide someone through a page. Event design asks you to build a space they walk into — and trust that the brand still does its job when it's not in their hands but all around them. Working on Turamurika and the other events under the Ni Nyampinga umbrella taught me how a brand holds together across wildly different moments: an intimate magazine spread, a stakeholder dinner, a 2-million-person campaign. The same brand, made to be felt differently each time.

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15 Issues, One Brand Editorial Design & Creative Direction | Girl Effect / Nike Foundation Role: In-house Designer → Creative Lead | 5 Years Background Ni Nyampinga — which translates from Kinyarwanda as "a girl who is beautiful inside and out and makes good decisions" — was more than a magazine. It was a cultural identity, created by and for Rwandan teenage girls, backed by Girl Effect and the Nike Foundation. At its peak it was the most widely distributed publication in Rwanda, reaching over 15,000 villages through a network of 30 Girl Ambassadors across every district in the country. Every issue was an event in itself — ambassadors would hold community gatherings each time a new issue was published, bringing girls together around the stories inside. I joined the creative team as a junior designer and spent five years growing into a creative lead role, with the magazine at the center of that journey. Where I Started I came in as a junior designer, learning the publication inside out — page layouts, print production, working within the brand system, hitting deadlines. The magazine had a strong visual identity and a clear editorial voice, and my job early on was to serve both faithfully. What I didn't expect was how quickly the work would start asking more of me. Each issue was built around a strategic theme, and the more issues I worked on, the more I understood how design decisions — a photograph chosen, a typeface weighted differently, a colour used with more or less restraint — could shift the emotional register of an entire spread. Growing Into Creative Direction Over time my responsibilities expanded. I began writing photography and illustration briefs, working with photographers and illustrators to shape the visual language of each issue before a single page was laid out. I contributed to creative direction decisions alongside the broader team, helping translate the strategic theme of each issue into a cohesive visual approach. And I took on the role of brand guardian — making sure Ni Nyampinga's identity stayed consistent and recognizable across every issue, even as the content evolved. The creative team fluctuated between 4 and 10 people depending on the project, often bringing in freelancers for specific issues. It was genuinely collaborative work, and the quality of each issue reflected the whole team's effort. Issue 20 — A Moment That Stayed With Me Of everything I worked on across those five years, Issue 20 stands out most. For that issue, our team traveled across Rwanda — visiting rural communities, cities, and schools — to gather stories directly from girls whose lives had been shaped by Ni Nyampinga. They shared how the brand had changed them, what it meant to see themselves reflected in it, and what it had given them permission to become. Sitting with those stories and then finding ways to bring them to life on the page reminded me why design matters. It wasn't about aesthetics. It was about giving people a way to see themselves. That issue is a big part of why I love what I do. What 15 Issues Taught Me Sustaining a brand across 15+ issues — each with its own theme, its own creative challenges, its own production pressures — teaches you things that no single project can. You learn the difference between a design decision that serves the moment and one that serves the brand. You learn how to push creatively within constraints without losing the thread that makes the publication recognizable. And you learn that consistency isn't about repetition — it's about trust.

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Nicholas Cheung

Toronto, Canada

SaaS SEO & AEO Specialist to Boost Your Revenue Growth

$5k+: Earned

2x: Hired

5.0: Rating

22: Followers

SaaS SEO & AEO Specialist to Boost Your Revenue Growth

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Helped an online education platform to drive +167% TOFU keywords

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Helped an course marketplace to have +94% pages indexed

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How I Grew a Healthcare Pricing Platform from 0 to 219K Clicks

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Helped a crypto startup to gain +289% growth on page 1 keywords

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proToronto, Canada

Senior UX & UI Designer | SAAS

$25k+: Earned

7x: Hired

5.0: Rating

27: Followers

Senior UX & UI Designer | SAAS

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UX/UI Enhancement for ResidencyWorks Web App

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Reducing user errors by 49% for General Motors DealerSource

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UI Design for Toyota Dealer Direct

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SuddenlySpaces - an MVP worth $20 million

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proToronto, Canada

Ai native product designer 🚀

$5k+: Earned

1x: Hired

5.0: Rating

10: Followers

Ai native product designer 🚀

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MUKnow - Learn Piano with AI

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Bell Curve Generator

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Passage Landing Page

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proMississauga, Canada

#1 AI Engineer on Upwork | LLM Agents & React/Node

New to Contra

#1 AI Engineer on Upwork | LLM Agents & React/Node

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Pupilfirst – Open-Source LMS

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Lalechet — Kosher Travel & Concierge Booking Platform Category: Travel Booking Platform / Tour Operator Suite Tech Stack: Ruby on Rails 7, PostgreSQL, Sprockets, Devise, Delayed Job, Paperclip, Savon (SOAP), Amadeus GDS, Gimmonix, Travel Guard, Duffel, Google Maps + Places, Dynalink PBX, QuickBooks Online, OpenAI, Pusher, Sendgrid, Twilio, Stripe, AWS S3 Our Contributions: Full Stack Lalechet is a full-service travel concierge platform built for the Jewish travel market, handling everything from custom itineraries and mekomos hakedoshim (holy sites) tours to group getaways, charter flights, and private jet bookings. We built the platform end-to-end — a Rails 7 application integrating live GDS inventory through Amadeus and Gimmonix, real-time flight booking via Duffel, and travel insurance through Travel Guard, all wrapped in a secure Devise-powered authentication layer. 🔗 https://lalechet.com/website

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Coloc Housing – Coliving Platform

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Pluto TV (Video Streaming Platform) Contributed to the development of Pluto TV by building and optimizing React-based features, managing application state with Redux, integrating binge-watching functionality, and supporting CI/CD and cloud deployments for a seamless streaming experience. Tech Stack: React.js, Redux, CircleCI, AWS, Binge Watch Integration

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Toronto, Canada

your digital wingwoman for all things content

$5k+: Earned

1x: Hired

24: Followers

your digital wingwoman for all things content

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Social Media Management

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Growth and Content Marketing

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Content Creation for a Fintech Start-up

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Toronto, Canada

Designer blending creativity, technology & customer insight.

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Designer blending creativity, technology & customer insight.

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Canti: Music-Based Language Learning App Design

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Tiny Universe Lab: Interactive Astronomy Sandbox

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Really happy to share that my portfolio won the Best Marketing / Slide Deck category in Replit’s latest Buildathon, along with $2,000 in Replit credits to continue building. Check it out here: fareedkilani.replit.app (https://fareedkilani.replit.app)

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Just submitted ANGLE / 01 to the Replit Buildathon on Contra. ANGLE / 01 is a complete product launch template built around a fictional modular task lamp. I used Replit Design and Canvas to plan the experience, explore the product presentation, and create a reusable design system before turning it into a fully functioning app. It includes an interactive product story, configurator, reservation flow, confirmations, and an analytics dashboard. The goal was to create something visually distinctive while still being genuinely useful and easy to remix for another product launch. Built from canvas to published app entirely in Replit. I’d love to hear what you think. Try it out here: angle01.replit.app (https://angle01.replit.app)

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