Work

Everything here is real and ours

Some of our work.
Always looking for more.

A storefront built end to end, a store redesign for AntibodY, a spec ad for Profound, a community site for a Miami Mahjong club, four reels cut for sound-off feeds, a product animation, a show title animation and three interface designs. Everything here was made by us, and nothing on this page is a concept dressed up as a client; the spec piece says it is one. If you have something you want built, tell us about it.

Brands we have built for

Client work. Always looking to add more.

01 · In-house build

CardsRG

cardsrg.com ↗

CardsRG is ours. A collector trading card shop for PSA graded cards, rare inserts and pack rips, built by this studio and still run by it. This is not a case study we were handed. It is the whole job done on ourselves, with our own money on the line.

We built the brand mark, the content engine that grew the audience, the whole storefront, product pages with grade and set detail, cart and checkout. Dark, loud and fast, because that is what the audience responds to. It went live in under two weeks and it sells.

Brand

Mark and palette

Site

Full storefront

Commerce

Cart and checkout

Stack

Next.js on Vercel

CardsRG homepage with the CRG shield logo and the headline Rip. Pull. Collect.
CardsRG product grid showing graded Lionel Messi and Stan Lee cards with prices and cart buttons

Before and after

The channel had the audience. It did not have a door.

The old banner was a poster. The new one is a directory: what they sell, where to buy it, and the shop address, on the first screen anybody lands on.

The old CardsRG channel banner: the CRG shield on a white lightning background with a subscribe button
BeforeA logo on lightning. Nothing to do next.
The new CardsRG channel banner in shop pink, listing Pokemon, One Piece, sports, slabs and sealed, with Instagram, eBay, cardsrg.com and email
AfterWhat they sell, and four ways to buy it.

What the brand did in 90 days

Instagram Insights · Jul 10 to Oct 7

407,555

Views

103,707

Viewers

13,741

Interactions

+1,162

Net new followers

Daily views

Peak · 37K in one day

Jul 10Aug 23Oct 7

Reels

330K views

Posts

46K views

Stories

31K views

Screenshot of the CardsRG Instagram Insights overview for the last 90 days: 407,555 views, 1,162 net followers, 13,741 interactions, 103,707 viewers, with reels at 330K views, posts at 46K and stories at 31K
The real screenshot, straight from Instagram

This audience was built post by post, by the same studio that then built the place it points at. Brand, content and storefront are one loop, and these numbers are what the loop produced. That is the argument for hiring us instead of a logo guy and a web guy.

02 · Client store

A store that asks
you a question.

AntibodY is built on one question: what gets you through the hard days? So the whole store reads like a text thread. The brand asks, the shopper answers, and every shirt is somebody's answer.

DesktopThe full walkthrough, at 1.5x.
PhoneSame store, built thumb first.

Client work · Store redesign

AntibodY

@whatisyourantibody ↗

AntibodY makes tees like “Laughing is my AntibodY”, made with love by healthcare and creative pros in Miami. Their old store was a template. The redesign keeps their logo exactly as it is, goes black and white, and uses only their own photos from the site and Instagram.

It opens on a smiley that draws itself into the spinning AY mark. The shirts pop up when you hover, every button presses like a key, and the bag checks out through their existing Shopify, so all 48 real products and sizes work on day one.

Pieces

Store and brand kit

Catalog

48 products

Checkout

Their Shopify cart

Status

Redesign, in review

03 · Spec ad

A hard problem,
explained in 31 seconds.

Getting AI to produce something is easy. Getting it to do work a marketing team can trust is the hard part, and that is the whole pitch. The ad opens on the easy version, names the hard one, then shows the platform that closes the gap.

Spec piece, made for Profound

Profound

tryprofound.com

Made on our own for Profound, the platform for marketing in AI search. It was not commissioned. It stays inside their look, black with one blue, and lets the type carry the argument: research, planning, creation and measurement snapping into one platform, your judgment on one end and trusted action on the other. It ends where a recruiting ad should, on the careers link.

Length

31 seconds

Format

16:9 landscape

Made for

Recruiting and social

Status

Spec, not commissioned

04 · Client site

Two colors,
one very good table.

A community site has to feel like the room before you walk in. The site is built from the logo alone, its red and its blush and nothing else, so everything the brand puts out looks like the same brand.

The siteOne page, top to bottom.

Client work

Mahj & Coffee

@mahjandcoffee ↗

Mahj & Coffee teaches American Mahjong in Miami, beginner lessons, guided play, game nights and coffee meetups, the purist way. The site takes the two colors off the logo and refuses a third. The founder's welcome is in her own voice, the buttons carry a coffee cup, the girl with the mug gets a whole band, and the practice sheet from the Etsy shop gets its own room.

Piece

Community site

Palette

Two, from the logo

Site

Single HTML file

City

Miami

05 · Motion

Reels built for
sound-off feeds.

Short vertical pieces that make the whole pitch on screen, in seconds, with no audio needed. They ship alongside a brand or storefront build so the launch does not go out silent.

Client work

Shutters Depot

shutters-depot.com ↗

Cut for a hurricane protection company in Hialeah. Twenty-five seconds that walk the product line, accordion shutters, panels and impact windows, with the urgency Miami actually feels every June.

Length

25 seconds

Made for

Instagram and TikTok

Client work

ABC Capital Group

abccapitalgroupusa.com ↗

A cash home buyer working Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. Calm and editorial on purpose, because the audience is somebody under pressure to sell and loud would have read as a scam.

Length

21 seconds

Made for

Instagram and TikTok

Studio sample

Vice City Property Runs

A sample cut in the studio for a South Florida property appointment service. The whole pitch in fourteen seconds: the problem, the coverage, the hours, the handle.

Length

14 seconds

Made for

Instagram and TikTok

Client work

RINGSHIFT

A launch ad for a one-tap mobile ring game coming to the App Store. Real gameplay under big captions that read in a glance: the challenge, the rule, the speed, then the download.

Length

17 seconds

Made for

App install ads

06 · Product animation

Explaining the thing
the screenshot cannot.

Some products only make sense in motion. Twelve seconds showing the actual mechanic beats a paragraph trying to describe it, and it works on a landing page, in an ad and in a pitch deck without being recut.

Client work

SlipFolio

slip-folio.com ↗

SlipFolio turns a bet slip into an investment: a slice of every stake goes into a portfolio, win or lose. That is one sentence to read and a hard idea to picture, so the animation shows it happening on the slip itself, then lands the line.

Length

12 seconds

Format

16:9 landscape

Made for

Site and ads

Audio

None needed

07 · Title animation

The first few seconds
set the whole tone.

A show open has one job: make the name land before the host says a word. This one types itself in letter by letter over a live waveform, so the format is clear before the title finishes.

Studio sample

Powered by People

An intro built in the studio for a talk format about the people behind the work. Sans for the power, italic serif for the people, and a waveform that keeps moving so the card never sits still. Then the tagline types in under it, so viewers know what the show is about before anyone speaks. It drops in front of any episode, podcast or video, without a recut.

Length

14 seconds

Format

16:9 landscape

Made for

Podcast and video opens

Audio

Add the theme

08 · Interface design

The screen doing
all of the selling.

A landing page and a first app screen have the same job. Say what the thing is, say why it is worth a minute, and leave one obvious next move. These three are studio design work, drawn to be handed to a build and shipped without a second pass.

Kalender landing page: a black pill navigation, the headline You are not busy, your meetings are just broken, an email sign-up beside it, a trusted-by logo row and a dark week calendar sitting over a field of daisies

Studio design

Kalender

A scheduling tool sells on one promise, so the page leads with the objection instead of the feature list. The headline names the problem, the sign-up sits at eye level next to it, and the product itself carries the rest of the screen. The calendar is shown running, not described.

Piece

Landing page

Screens

One, above the fold

Type

Serif headline, grotesk UI

Made for

Sign-ups

Mantel app welcome screen on a phone: a cluster of gold framed family photos, the Mantel wordmark, the line Rescue your memories, make them physical, and a Get Started button

Studio design

Mantel

The first screen of an app has one job, and it is not onboarding. The framed photos say what the product makes before the wordmark says its name, so the line underneath only has to confirm it. One button, no account wall.

Piece

Mobile app screen

Format

Phone, first run

Actions

One

Made for

The App Store shot

NOVA landing page: the headline Your mind, upgraded in black and blue over a portrait lit from below, with glass feature cards for Ideas, Organize and Focus orbiting the figure, a Get started free button and a trusted-by row

Studio design

NOVA

Every AI product page opens the same way, with a gradient and a promise about productivity. This one puts a person at the center and lets the features orbit them, so the thing being upgraded is obvious before a word is read. The headline splits across two weights to do the same job in three words.

Dark, but not heavy. The glow sits behind the subject rather than on the type, which keeps the copy legible and stops the page looking like every other launch in the category.

Piece

Landing page

Screens

One, above the fold

Type

Grotesk, two weights

Made for

Product launch

Walk through one decision at a time

Anyone can show you
a finished logo.

The finished thing tells you almost nothing. What decided it is the part worth reading, so here is the CRG mark taken apart, one choice at a time, including the ones we got wrong first.

The CRG shield mark in place on the CardsRG storefront

The mark in the place it actually has to work: small, in a corner, next to a menu, on top of a photograph. That is the real test, not a presentation slide.

01

A shield, because the category already speaks it

Trading cards live inside sports crests, team badges and holo foil. A shield is not a clever idea, it is the shape the audience already reads as authority, and using the language your buyer already speaks beats being original at them.

02

Two accents, not five

Teal and magenta, and nothing else fighting them. Card culture is visually loud, so the mark had to hold its own against a photo of forty foil packs without joining the noise. Two colors far apart on the wheel do that. Five would have turned into mush at the size it actually gets used.

03

The crown earns its place

It is not decoration. The business is built on grails, the one card everyone is chasing, so the crown is the promise restated at the top of the mark. Every element should be answering a question about the business. If it is only there because it looked good, it comes out.

04

Chrome that survives being shrunk

The bevel and the inner glow read as premium at full size, but the mark spends its life at forty pixels in a browser tab. So the silhouette had to work in one flat color first, and the shine got added on top. Build it the other way around and you get a logo that dies the moment it is small.

05

The subline does the explaining

RIPS and GRAILS sits under the shield so the mark never has to explain itself. Three letters cannot tell a first-time visitor what the business does. Two words can, and they can be dropped when the audience knows you.

And the one we got wrong first

The thumbnail that did not work.

Version one: two people behind a pile of packs against a bright sky. It looked fine and it performed badly, which is the most useful kind of failure because it is specific.

What was wrong

Half the frame was empty sky. On a phone, at the size a thumbnail is actually seen, the faces were smaller than a fingernail and the product was an unreadable smear along the bottom.

What changed

Faces scaled up until they carry the frame, product pushed into every remaining gap so the density itself is the message, sky deleted entirely. Same two people, same packs, same shoot. Only the decisions changed.

The rule underneath it

Design for the size it gets viewed at, not the size you are working at. Almost every weak thumbnail, logo and hero image is a thing that was judged on a big screen and lives on a small one.

This is the level every decision gets, on every build, whether or not anybody ever asks. You are welcome to ask.

The Honest Bit

New studio.
Not a new obsession.

FlowZone is new. The thing it is built on is not. Brand, design and the way a company sounds have been the obsession for years, long before any of it had a name or an invoice attached. This page is short because the studio is at the beginning, not because the work is a side interest we picked up recently.

It also means everything here is real. No concepts dressed up as clients, no logos we had nothing to do with. And what you get for arriving early is the version of a studio everyone says they want later: the person who answers your email is the person who builds the thing, and the pricing reflects where we are rather than where we intend to be.

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