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Matthew Dix
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Johannesburg, South Africa
Systems and Storytelling | Design Scientist
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Systems and Storytelling | Design Scientist
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I created what turned out to be a very late entry into last month's "Runway — Pitch Contest for Shows That Don't Exist Yet". I wasn't selected, but that's not really what stayed with me. The process reminded me how important it is to keep making things, even when the odds aren't in your favour, the deadline is tight, or the outcome is uncertain. Sometimes the real win is showing up, following the idea, and putting something into the world that didn't exist before. This project became a small reminder that creative growth rarely happens by waiting for permission. It happens by chasing the vision anyway. Here's my submission: #TheFifthFrequency Curious to hear what resonates with you. 📻
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Obsidian Veil: Luxury Fragrance Brand Framework
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Brand Tarot: Interactive Brand Discovery Tool
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Home & Flow Scalable Report Design System
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Vezubuhle Khumalo
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Johannesburg, South Africa
Brand & Visual Identity Designer with 8+ years of experience
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Brand & Visual Identity Designer with 8+ years of experience
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Hey Contra 👋🏽 Many of the challenges I participated in here pushed me to start experimenting with building tools and platforms. One of those experiments slowly turned into something bigger. I’ve been building a social platform called Spaxis for creatives, and it’s now about 90% ready. I realized something… as creators, our work often gets mixed in with everything else on traditional platforms,and as tools improve and creators level up, the quality of what we create is only getting better, but the platforms we use haven’t really evolved to support that. Everything still gets mixed, lost, or disconnected. Spaxis is built for where creators are heading, a space where their work can live and connect, putting creators and their work at the center, so what we create can actually stay connected and grow. Building it has been challenging, but now comes the interesting part, seeing how people interact with it. The platform is currently optimized for web not mobile, and since Contra is full of curious creators who like trying new things, I figured this would be the best place to share it. Huge thanks to Contra and YouWare for creating environments that push creators to explore, experiment, and build. This wouldn’t exist without that. If you enjoy testing new things before they’re polished: Explore Spaxis here: https://www.spaxis.co/ It’s early, so your feedback really matters here😊
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IronSigil — Brand Identity & Website A concept project exploring how Digital Risk Protection training can be translated into a bold, forged, and trustworthy visual system for cybersecurity professionals.
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Rolling dice, deploying tools, and turning projects into battlegrounds 🎮⚡ For Creative Crash, I built a neon strategy game on YouWare where design tools compete like players. You roll, move, block, and race to complete projects — blending strategy, luck, and that unpredictable creative chaos every designer knows too well. Click to play: Creative Clash (https://vbrxkqf8jk.youware.app/) #YouWareChallenge
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IronSigil Brand Identity and Website Design
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Fred Wanders
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Johannesburg, South Africa
CRO Landing pages, websites, apps
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CRO Landing pages, websites, apps
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Website for dental clinic network
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Design studio website
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Casino tech website
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Landing page for AI ranking service
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Nomthandazo Masilela
Johannesburg, South Africa
Translating ideas into captivating designs
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A comprehensive branding and social media identity concept for Noula, a specialized midwifery and pregnancy care center focusing on complex medical and neonatological offerings. The design direction rejects cold, clinical healthcare aesthetics in favor of a warm, human-centric, and premium visual ecosystem. By pairing raw, editorial photography with an elegant typographic hierarchy, the brand identity establishes a deeply comforting and professional presence across digital platforms. Key Design & Branding Elements The Typography Strategy: Built around a soft, fluid, lowercase logotype with custom rounded geometry, capturing the natural themes of maternity and care. It features a subtle, floating circular emblem to signify a supportive environment. Color Palette Architecture: An intentional balance of organic warmth and medical trust. The primary hex tones include: #F1D3BB: A soft, nourishing peach/cream background skin tone to represent intimacy and comfort. #C3D5E8: A calming, modern powder blue to inject fresh, reliable medical credibility without looking sterile. Deep plum/wine tones for high-contrast body copy and secondary iconography layout. Editorial Art Direction: Utilizes authentic, documentary-style imagery (water births, maternal stretch marks, skin-to-skin touch) treated with soft film grain and desaturated tones. This approach builds instant emotional connection and transparency with expectant mothers. Multi-Channel Digital Framework Social Layout Mockups: Designed dynamic mobile frames showing how curated carousel posts bridge the gap between human storytelling and informative pregnancy resources. Asset Versatility: Developed the "nl" sub-brand monogram system, engineered to scale perfectly down to a smartphone app icon or profile picture while maintaining legible high-end presence. Brand Presentation Sheets: Asymmetric landscape layouts created to pitch the corporate identity alongside its clinical positioning statement smoothly.
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Design & Strategy (Figma) Color Block Architecture: Uses high-contrast transitions (cobalt blue, lime green, powder pink, and cream) to naturally guide the user's eye and separate sections without relying on rigid border lines. Typography Hierarchy: Strategic use of condensed, heavy sans-serif headers paired with structured body copy to maximize text readability and visual impact. Responsive Asset Framing: Image containers engineered to scale cleanly, supporting mixed media from editorial studio imagery to clean graphic mockups. Development Capabilities While designed pixel-perfect in Figma, this framework is engineered to be fully responsive and optimized for seamless development. I am fully equipped to translate this exact layout into production-ready builds across multiple environments: Custom Development: Clean, semantic, and accessible HTML/CSS. No-Code / Low-Code: Fully responsive and animated setups in Webflow or highly customizable, client-friendly architectures in WordPress.
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High-Fashion Visual Identity & Editorial Layout: Lilli Collins Engineered a minimalist, editorial-grade visual identity system and promotional portfolio framework for a personal wardrobe stylist and creative consultant. Leveraged high-contrast layouts, avant-garde typography, and texturized product presentation frames to cultivate an elite, publication-quality brand footprint. Core Responsibilities Avant-Garde Typography Engineering: Designed a high-impact, custom typographic logomark combining interlocking geometric letters with an integrated copyright emblem to establish premium ownership and luxury positioning. Editorial Layout Architecture: Formulated a minimalist grid template that maximizes whitespace, positioning subtle business metadata alongside focal imagery to evoke the feeling of a premium physical fashion lookbook. Textural Asset Layering: Conceptualized and executed a distinct visual style that drops sharp, dark fashion objects (like the glossy pointed-toe boot) inside crinkled cellophane textures to give flat digital portfolios a tactile, physical dimension. Cross-Industry Brand Integration: Harmoniously integrated operational micro-copy (such as studio links and contact fields) into the margins, ensuring the design remains functional for client acquisition without sacrificing high-fashion aesthetics. Key Deliverables Primary typographic logomark and brand signature stamp assets. Scalable digital lookbook layouts and promotional portfolio templates. Standardized editorial layout guidelines (whitespace distribution, margin text scales, and contrast filters).
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Social Media Campaign Success: Engaging Content Strategy
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Natalie Walsh
Johannesburg, South Africa
Web Design Specialist
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Framer Website Development for Best Byte
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Framer Web Design for Complete Athlete
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Framer Website Design for Breakthrough MG
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Framer Website Design for Feed Me Content
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Michelle Dežulović
Johannesburg, South Africa
Video editor creating captivating videos that generate leads
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Video editor creating captivating videos that generate leads
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Centinarians
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Doccie series - 4 Foundation Doctors
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Brand Manifesto - Africa Day
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Product Advert - Vitality Drive Impact Alert
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Gideon Phillip
Johannesburg, South Africa
Brand Partner for Premium Architecture Firms & Startups.
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Brand Partner for Premium Architecture Firms & Startups.
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Excited to share another Best of 🔵 Behance Featured Project! This time: our most recent work for 'More Travel'. More is not a travel agency. It's an invitation — to explore with intention, connect with curiosity, and experience the world the way it was meant to be felt. The verbal and visual identity was built around a single truth: travel should transform, not just transport. Every touchpoint — from the name itself to the brand language and visual system — was crafted to feel personal, insightful, and alive. This is the kind of work we rarely post. Really proud of this one. → View the full case study: https://tr.ee/moretravel
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Excited to announce that our last project Sous Forme® has been featured as Best of Behance — a recognition that means a great deal to us, and a reflection of the intention behind every detail. Sous Forme® is a Zürich-based architecture studio founded by Velden — where human logic isn't an afterthought, it's the founding principle. Spaces designed around the people inside them, not the other way around. Buildings that don't perform. They shelter.
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KæK / Brand Identity
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Laila M
Johannesburg, South Africa
Building high-performing websites with code and no-code
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Why I built Pixelus I’ve been thinking a lot about the friction between "showing" work and "running" a business. For a long time, my portfolio was just a static gallery. But as I started taking on more client work and selling digital products, I realized I was spending more time managing fragmented tools than actually creating. I wanted a single ecosystem. I built Pixelus to bridge that gap. It’s a Framer template, but I approached it as business infrastructure, a way to remove maintenance overhead so your site acts as an engine, not a chore. How do you handle the balance between maintaining your portfolio and managing your business operations? X/Twitter Post (https://x.com/snoweirdo/status/2067888482232549574?s=20)
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Just released Pixelus A premium @framer (https://x.com/framer) template for: • Creative agencies • Freelancers • Design studios • Personal brands • Digital creators Wanted it to feel minimal, fast, and premium without looking generic. 😊 Check it out (https://contra.com/products/91ud1RtP-pixelus-premium-portfolio-template-for-creators)
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Strategize is a Framer template for SaaS marketing agencies that value speed and value.
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AI founders don't struggle to build. They struggle to launch. You've got the product. The features work. But the website? → Screams "I made this in a weekend" → You keep tweaking instead of shipping → Every day you don't launch, someone else does It's about product trust. Built Veroah's to do one thing: Make people know that the product is as good as it actually is. Fast, intentional, zero fluff → Get it here (https://framer.com/marketplace/templates/veroah/?via=plankdesigns)
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