Where curiosity leads the way

This is my creative playground — a space for experiments, visual ideas, and works-in-progress that keep me learning, playing, and pushing forward.

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Inflatable palm trees line a sandy beach with pastel-colored beach houses, under a partly cloudy sky at sunset.

A Creative Playground

The Playground is where I let curiosity take the lead. It’s a space to explore ideas that don’t need a brief…just a spark. Whether I’m learning a new tool, testing visual styles, or chasing a half-formed thought, this is where I experiment without overthinking.

A lot of what you’ll see here connects to my newsletter, Not in the Brief : a behind-the-scenes look at how I work, play, and stay creatively unstuck.

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Building Sandbox

This is where I learn by building.

Sometimes that means vibe coding a cat checkers game in Figma Make. Sometimes it’s testing new tools like Replit or Lovable to create small, strange, satisfying things.

There’s no roadmap here, just curiosity and the urge to see what happens.

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My first vibe coding experiment: Cat Checkers. Inspired by the folded cat papers I created of my two cats in 2015.

The best way to experiment is to make it personal.

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Design Sandbox

I believe in playing more, creating more and leading with curiosity. These 3 are my perfect combination in staying motivated, inspired, and pushing through these ever changing times.

This section collects visual explorations where AI meets storytelling, motion, and mood. Think: surreal hotels inspired by national dishes, Jitter-made animations from MidJourney images, or short visual tests that push how I use new tools.

It’s meant to be quick to browse, but many of these link out to deeper process breakdowns or my newsletter, Not in the Brief.

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Worldly Hotel Series

Tools Used: ChatGPT
Goal: Learning more about prompting, specifically how to generate images that are in my mind!

A house shaped like a bunch of grapes with small balconies, set in a vineyard.
A hotel named 'Schokolade Hotel' designed to look like a giant chocolate bar with five rows of balconies. The hotel is set in a mountainous landscape with snow-capped peaks, green hills, and cows grazing.
A hotel building designed to look like a block of Swiss cheese, with circular holes of various sizes, balconies with flower boxes, in a rural landscape with cows, a fence, and mountains.
A whimsical building resembling stacked macarons with small balconies, in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, with a bicycle parked nearby.
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Day dreaming in class In the early 2000's

What would early 2000s me be dreaming about in class?

Probably something weird like this image.

This was a fun one: I used GPT to help refine my prompt, generated a younger version of myself in MidJourney (based on the Oref reference) and styled it like a Lizzie McGuire poster. I used Photoshop to add the floating fish then harmonized it with their new feature, then re-uploaded it to MidJourney to animate the final version.

Tools used:
🔹 ChatGPT — for prompting
🔹 Human Imagination — for generating ideas
🔹 MidJourney — for image + video generation
🔹 Photoshop — for adding the fish & harmonizing the final look!

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