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Seoul, South Korea
I help lifestyle brands look like real brands — not just graphics. With 6+ years of experience in fashion and design studios, I’ve worked on branding, social content, and graphic design for various brands. My focus is not just creating visuals, but building a consistent brand presence. Here’s how I can help: 🔹 Brand Starter Package -Logo design -Color & typography system -Basic brand direction 🔹 Social Visual System -Instagram feed design -Post templates -Visual consistency guide 🔹 Graphic & Apparel Design -T-shirt graphics -Campaign visuals -Print-ready artwork I specialize in translating brand ideas into visuals that actually feel consistent across platforms — not just isolated designs. If you’re looking to build a strong, cohesive brand — feel free to reach out.
- Illustration
- Adobe Illustrator
- Print Design
- Graphic Design
- Adobe Photoshop
- CLO 3D
- Digital Design
- Social Media Imagery
- T-Shirt Design
- Logo Design
- Merchandise Graphic Design
- Banner Ad Design
- Instagram
- Brand Identity & Guidelines
- Social Media Design
Daejeon, South Korea
Brand Designer | Visual Storyteller | Branding Expert Hi, I’m Zhanerke, a creative and passionate brand designer with over 3 years of experience helping brands stand out through impactful design. Currently based in Nice, France, I work globally with US, European, and Asian brands, bringing a unique, cross-cultural perspective to every project. My expertise includes: - Brand Identity Creation: Crafting thoughtful and strategic brand identities that reflect the soul of your business. I’ve worked with a European noodle brand, a US coffee roastery, and designed the visual identity for luxury products like candles. - Naming & Visual Storytelling: I specialize in connecting brands with their audience through meaningful, visual narratives that inspire trust and loyalty. - Luxury Branding: With a strong interest in the luxury sphere, I excel at delivering sophisticated, high-end designs that leave a lasting impression. In addition to my professional experience, I currently work as a marketing designer for UMMA, a beauty wholesaler in South Korea, and offer free branding consultations to help businesses discover their full potential. If you're looking for a designer who can elevate your brand’s story and connect with your audience on a deeper level, let's collaborate. I look forward to helping you make your vision a reality!
- Adobe Illustrator
- Logo Design
- Adobe Photoshop
- Brand Identity & Guidelines
- Brand Identity Design
- Branding
- Social Media Design
- Brand Identity
- Brand Design
- Brand Style Guide
- Brand Book Design
- Brand Guidelines
- Corporate Brand Identity
- Brand Naming
- Adobe Creative Suite
Seoul, South Korea
As the Founder and Principal Designer of a specialized e-commerce design agency, I bring 10 years of combined corporate and independent experience focused strictly on conversion-optimized visual strategy. My background as an Industrial Designer, combined with deep market experience in FMCG, cosmetics, and health sectors, allows me to view design not just as aesthetics, but as a systematic solution for market positioning and sales growth. I partner with mid-to-high-tier clients seeking to minimize risk and maximize ROI on their visual assets. My unique value proposition is the ability to deliver agency-level stability and on-time execution without the bureaucratic overhead. My Core Expertise (Focus on High-Conversion Systems): Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) Design: Designing product detail pages and landing pages with clear, psychologically-driven user flow to maximize immediate sales. Systematic Brand Development: Establishing a unified visual identity (packaging, web, editorial) that ensures brand consistency across all consumer touchpoints. Risk-Free Delivery: Utilizing a refined design system (THIS IS DESIGN) that guarantees clean execution, on-time delivery, and reduces the need for constant revision cycles. Packaging & Product Visuals: Expertise in translating product features into high-impact, market-ready packaging and key visuals that stand out in crowded e-commerce environments.
- Adobe Illustrator
- Conversion Rate Optimization
- Landing Page Design
- Branding
- Content Strategy
- UX & UI Design
- Graphic Design
- Merchandise Graphic Design
- Label & Packaging Design
- Adobe Photoshop
- Data Visualization
- WordPress e-Commerce
- Web Content Strategy
Seoul, South Korea
Most product renders look polished. Very few actually sell. My 3D visuals have been exhibited at Milan Design Week and used in award-winning projects — including the iF Design Award, DIA Award — not because they look good, but because they communicate a product with precision and intent. I'm a product CGI artist with studio experience across Milan and Seoul, specializing in photorealistic rendering and visualization for brands that need visuals at a commercial and award-submission level. What separates my work is Material Fidelity. Because I come from industrial design, I understand how light actually behaves on specific materials — the subtle sheen of powder-coated metal, the depth of soft-touch rubber, the edge of brushed aluminum. The result is renders that read as real photography, not CGI. Planning a product launch, award submission, or brand refresh? Send me a message with your product type and deadline — I'll tell you exactly what's possible and what it takes to get there ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Best fit for ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Product launches & hero campaign visuals ✦ International design award submissions (iF, Red Dot, DIA) ✦ E-commerce detail pages (Amazon, Shopify) ✦ Investor decks and product presentations ✦ Social media and paid ad creative assets ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 What I deliver ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Studio Renders — clean background, listing-ready ✦ Lifestyle & Interior Scenes — product in context, atmosphere-first ✦ Hero & Campaign Visuals — web, ads, and brand storytelling ✦ Detail & Close-up Shots — material and feature highlights ✦ Product Animations — 360° turntable, feature reveal, exploded view ✦ E-commerce Page Design — renders integrated with layout ✦ 3D Modeling — Rhino3D NURBS, DfM-aware surface builds ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Why my renders look different ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ My background is in industrial design — not just visualization. That means when I set up a scene, I'm asking: "What would a buyer notice first?" "What needs to read clearly at thumbnail size?" "Where does the eye need to go?" Most rendering artists optimize for beauty. I optimize for communication — which is what actually sells products and wins awards. This is why clients who come to me for renders often end up asking about the design itself.If your product is still in development, I'm happy to discuss the design stage as well. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Tools & Software ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Rhino3D · KeyShot · Adobe Photoshop · Lightroom · Illustrator · Figma
- Adobe Illustrator
- 3D Modeling
- 3D Rendering
- Product Design
- Industrial Design
- Photorealistic Rendering
- CGI
- Rhinoceros 3D
- KeyShot
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Lightroom
- Adobe InDesign
- Figma
Seoul, South Korea
I'm a senior womenswear designer with 7+ years developing commercial collections for major US and Australian mass market retailers (including Target, Walmart, Kohl's, and Kmart AU), multi million dollar DTC E-commerce brands, and private label accounts. ✔️On the FASHION DESIGN side: I lead design from concept through buy review, present seasonal collections in buyer meetings, and build assortments through trend research and line planning - work that has always been about understanding what a specific customer will choose and why. ✔️On the CREATIVE STRATEGY side: I develop ad concepts, UGC briefs, and content frameworks for DTC brands using consumer psychology: including emotional mapping, funnel stage targeting, and hook strategy. My spec portfolio includes teardowns and redesigns of live ads for real DTC brands. If you're looking for someone who understands both what makes a product commercially viable and what makes a person stop scrolling, that's the overlap I work in!
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Fashion Design
- Tech Pack
- CLO 3D
- Creative Strategy
- Ad Copy
- Paid Social
- Social Media Marketing
- Copywriting
- Content Strategy
- Advertising Strategy
- Fashion Consultation
- Mass Market Fashion Design
- Fashion Pre-Production
- Fashion & Apparel
- Canva
- CapCut
- Fashion Illustration
- AI Image Generator
Seoul, South Korea
ABOUT ME: Hi! I’m ILHO KIM, a South Korean illustrator and concept artist with over a decade of experience creating immersive visual worlds for graphic novels, comics, games, movies and more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WHAT I DO: Graphic Novels & Comics: Pencils, inks, digital painting, and full-color illustrations. Concept Art: Game assets, character designs, environments, creature and movie concepts. World Building: From lore development, storytelling, to visual systems for books, games, or films. Book Covers & Children’s Books: Eye-catching designs that capture your story’s essence. Storyboarding & Game/Movie Design: Visual narratives and asset pipelines for interactive media. Product Design: Custom illustrations for wearable art and merchandise. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WHY WORK WITH ME? Versatile Styles: Adapt to your vision—whether it’s hyper-realistic, manga-inspired, or stylized. End-to-End Projects: From sketches to final art, I handle all stages of the creative process. Fast Turnaround: Reliable delivery without compromising quality. English-Fluent Communication: Clear collaboration for international clients. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PORTFOLIO HIGHLIGHTS: Fantasy & Sci-Fi Character Design (View in Portfolio) Post-Apocalyptic World Building (View in Portfolio) Children’s Book Illustrations (View in Portfolio) Game Asset Concepts (View in Portfolio) Let’s Create Something Amazing Together! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you’re looking for an artist who can bring your story, game, or brand to life, I’d love to hear from you. Message me for a free consultation or to discuss your project!
- Illustration
- Adobe Photoshop
- Concept Artistry
- Sketch
- Storyboarding
- Game Development
- Art Direction
- Comic Art
- Digital Painting
- Manga
- Comics
- Graphic Design
- Game Art
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