(03) After hoursFreelance & side projectsIssue 01 · 2023 — 2024

Afterhours

The fun side of me. Outside product design I draw characters, design launch pages, make share-card templates and the odd logo, mostly for online communities and a few small businesses. It’s looser, louder and faster than my day job, and I love it.Tap any piece to open it ↗

01 — Character · Stickers · Motion — 2023

The Ducker

The Ducker started as a joke and grew into a whole cast: a duck character that riffs on internet meme culture, plus the online community I co-founded around it.

It’s inspired by meme culture rather than wholly original, but the poses, outfits and scenes are mine.

What
Character & brand system
My part
Co-creator · illustration · animation
Context
Freelance side project
The Ducker: Synth Ducker — hat, shades and two keyboards Synth Ducker — hat, shades and two keyboards The Ducker: Social post — sunglasses Ducker and a pixel heart Social post — sunglasses Ducker and a pixel heart

Going from a 512 px chat sticker to a cut vinyl decal.

— the fun part
The Ducker: Cast illustration — boxing, swimming and disguised Duckers (detail) Cast illustration — boxing, swimming and disguised Duckers (detail) The Ducker: Welcome animation — astronaut Ducker floating past the planets Welcome animation — astronaut Ducker floating past the planets The Ducker: Vinyl stickers — the Ducker logo on the cutter Vinyl stickers — the Ducker logo on the cutter
02 — UX/UI · Web — 2024

Launch Landing Pages

A run of one-page launch sites for online communities, often turned around in a day or less. Big mascot, bold type, and one clear thing to do.

On Resistance Dog v2 I did the UX/UI and a development partner built the back-end. The hooded-dog mascot itself isn’t my drawing.

What
UX/UI & web design
My part
UX/UI design
With
A development partner on some pages
Launch Landing Pages: Resistance Dog — v2 desktop hero (UX/UI by me, back-end by a partner) Resistance Dog — v2 desktop hero (UX/UI by me, back-end by a partner) Launch Landing Pages: Resistance Dog — v1 mobile page, teal binary-rain theme Resistance Dog — v1 mobile page, teal binary-rain theme Launch Landing Pages: Rejct’d — animated glitch landing page (copy blurred) Rejct’d — animated glitch landing page (copy blurred) Launch Landing Pages: Pulse Trailer Park — desktop hero Pulse Trailer Park — desktop hero

Designing for a one-day turnaround keeps you honest about what matters.

— the fun part
Launch Landing Pages: Gorilla page — mobile hero with moon and clouds Gorilla page — mobile hero with moon and clouds
03 — UX/UI · Templates — 2024

Share Card Templates

A template system for the result cards a chat-bot app let people share: one layout, four states, built to look good as a tiny preview in a group chat.

Shown here as a rebuild with placeholder data: the originals carried live figures and a third-party character, so I recreated the layout without them.

What
UI template system
My part
Layout & visual design
Context
Freelance
Share Card Templates: Gain state — placeholder data (rebuilt) Gain state — placeholder data (rebuilt) Share Card Templates: Loss state — placeholder data (rebuilt) Loss state — placeholder data (rebuilt)

Tiny canvas, strict hierarchy: one number has to win.

— the fun part
Share Card Templates: Buy variant — placeholder data (rebuilt) Buy variant — placeholder data (rebuilt) Share Card Templates: Sell variant — placeholder data (rebuilt) Sell variant — placeholder data (rebuilt)
04 — Illustration · Social — 2024

MonkeyFi

Hand-drawn graphics for MonkeyFi’s community, built around one grinning monkey mascot. This is the slow-clap portrait.

Shown as posted, with no crop.

What
Mascot illustration
My part
Illustration
Context
Freelance
MonkeyFi: Portrait — the slow clap Portrait — the slow clap

A mascot that reads at thumbnail size and still has attitude.

— the fun part
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