AREA is a fictional creative technology studio exploring how AI-native workflows can shape modern digital identity design.
I used Google Stitch to explore and refine the brand direction through typography studies, interaction concepts, motion systems, colour exploration, and in-place AI edits before rebuilding the final experience in Next.js with Framer Motion and deploying it on Vercel.
The final site focuses on cinematic pacing, editorial restraint, atmospheric motion, and immersive interaction design inspired by modern creative studio websites.
Live Site:
https://area-snowy.vercel.app
Stitch was strongest as a rapid creative direction and identity exploration tool. The in-place editing workflow made it easy to iteratively refine layouts, spacing, typography, and atmosphere while maintaining creative momentum.
The workflow became most powerful when paired with production tooling, using Stitch to establish the creative system first, then translating the final direction into code for deeper interaction and motion refinement.
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Repeat client work, this time the brief was a bit more specific. Client's original site had done it's work, but his body of work has grown to an extent now that the site needed a refresh. This time the client wanted a more obvious theme, and as their books are based around a flooded world then the theme was a no brainer. Getting the precise palette for the above sea elements was difficult and we went through a good number of iterations to get it right. It's amazing how if you make the sky too deep or add too much purple then the sea with these colours starts taking on a Disney look and feel! Definitely not what was wanted.
Gently animated water to give undulating rhythm to the page without making it memory intensive or overly distracting.
augustmae.co.uk (https://augustmae.co.uk)
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Hey folks,
After Cabana, I built something different.
Cabana was about helping designers work faster. Arkiv is about helping them protect what they make.
It's a tool that generates a cryptographic proof of your design work, timestamped and anchored permanently on the blockchain. Think of it as an unforgeable receipt that proves you created something first. We all need that more than ever now right? 👍
With AI scraping everything and design theft getting worse, having verifiable proof of creation has never mattered more. The EU AI Act is already in force. More legislation is coming. Arkiv gives you a record that holds up.
It takes about 60 seconds. Your file never leaves your device.
Drop your file → get your proof → download your certificate. That's it.
Free to try - no card required for your first few certifications.
Would love to hear what the Contra community thinks. Happy to answer any questions below. 👇
https://www.arkived.io/
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My Way Hospitality — an interactive course for first-time UK café founders
A learning portal for people opening their first pâtisserie-café, coffee shop or restaurant in the UK. I turned 15+ years of running hospitality businesses into a product.
You pick your format and the whole course adapts: three full courses, 214 pages, real UK figures. Every module has a diagnostic, cases with real numbers, a calculator and a mistake check (760 in total). It also includes a 223-term plain-English glossary, a London directory of 176 suppliers, and a project hub that turns your answers into a one-page summary for a bank or investor.
Built with Claude, live on Vercel, tested on desktop and phone with automated and accessibility checks. A Ukrainian version is in progress.
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🚀 Had an idea over the weekend. Spent the next 4 days building it. Meet CraftTun.
I’ve wanted a clean, reliable way to run Craft CMS locally, without fighting Docker, juggling databases. CraftTun, a cross-platform app that handles the entire Craft CMS local dev stack for you.
It’s not released yet, but the core is solid: containers spin up cleanly, Craft installs instantly, one-click admin login works. It takes inspiration from Local and the retired Craft Nitro, but is built specifically for modern Craft workflows.
What works today:
• Create new Craft sites
• Auto container setup
• phpMyAdmin access
• Craft CMS v3–v5 support
• One-click admin login
Built in 4 days through focused iteration and prompt-driven development, showing how quickly high-quality tooling can be delivered with the right workflow.
https://www.crafttun.com/
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