EARTHTURN is a ceramics brand I hope to open one day. I'm not a potter. So I used FLORA to help me build the whole branding, from physical product to brand identity mockup around the idea.   FLORA was where I pushed the ideas and a strategy I already had in my head, and tested it until it held. So I'd have more time for the part that actually matters: the brand strategy.   Here's what I kept reminding myself while making the visuals. You create images to sell a product, not just to look good. So every image should have a job.   It might be a logo evolving: a turning wheel, then fire, then a vessel, resolving into the mark. I wanted the logo to show where it comes from, not just sit there finished.   It might be the slow rotation effect for poster or social media posts, you can realise this effect when someone throws on a wheel, the movement the brand is named after. Not a trending effect that looks cool but says nothing about EARTHTURN.    It might be the close-ups images: the material, the pattern, the piece from different angles. A customer buys what they can see clearly. Pretty from a distance doesn't sell, texture you can almost feel does.  It might be the packaging shots that show the foam and wrapping: the piece protected, not a bare pot sitting alone in a cardboard box. You're not just selling a vase. You're selling care, and a product that arrives whole and unchipped.   That's what making images for a brand really means, not grabbing whatever composition looks nice and calling it done. If you can't say why a visual serves the brand, it's decoration, not design.

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Designing a table lamp inspired by Vietnamese “áo dài” and “nón lá” with @Envato (https://contra.com/company/envato) at the centre of my workflow. Starting from a black-and-white sketch, I built the lamp's ceramic base and rice-paper shade using Envato's AI toolkit, tagging reference materials directly so AI wasn't guessing at textures it can't always read from an image alone. AI was great at generating options. It was not great at knowing which option was right; I rejected a full batch that technically worked but lost the silhouette I actually wanted, and hand-retouched a detail (the finial) that AI kept leaving unfinished. The bigger call AI couldn't make: timing this launch to back-to-school season in Vietnam, when áo dài comes back out. That's not a style choice; it's a commercial one. See the full process and the part AI couldn't do in the VIDEO below. 👇 #envatochallenge @envato

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Meet Brand Texture Engine on Flora. Stop wasting hours building textures from scratch. Upload your brand color palette and instantly generate a complete, ready-to-use texture system. Mesh gradients, topographic, stipple. You name it. One click to fast-track your design assets for web, social, and print! Built for designers and agencies who design brand assets across social media, websites, packaging, and OOH advertising. Try it out HERE→ https://app.flora.ai/techniques/brand-texture-engine-n1x848 Built with @floraai #FLORATechnique

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Althea Nguyen

Creative Designer | Brand Designer | Web Designer