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An earlier portfolio, built while the design side of the practice was taking shape.
Before this "room," there was this — a more traditional two-track portfolio split between a Portfolio section (magazine layouts, brand guides, packaging design, and other studio work) and a Digital Art section built around texture, color palettes, blend modes, and object transformation experiments. It's the throughline between the design-school work and the site you're looking at now.
Keeping it live and linked here is a bit of a "how it started" marker — worth seeing next to the newer work rather than replaced by it.