I just joined the Contra Labs Network as a Web Designer.
It sits right at the intersection of design, creativity, and AI. I'm curious to see how much influence designers will have on the way these systems evolve over the next few years.
Designing the physical hangtag for Sillanwali — a 300-year-old naqshi lacquer woodcraft brand from Punjab. Two directions, same hand-vectored rosette motif, opposite instincts. Which one would make you flip the tag over to read the story?
Most heritage crafts get sold through a product grid and a paragraph about "tradition."
Sillanwali has been making naqshi lacquer woodcraft since 1710 — a craft carried across the 1947 Partition and kept alive by artisan families ever since. That story deserved better than a grid.
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