Speculative Design Course

Project Type
Brand Identity
Contribution
Art Direction, 3D & Motion Design
Year
2025

Project info

Speculative Design Course is a three-hour online course that teaches designers, strategists and innovators to use speculative design in their day-to-day work: to question assumptions, imagine alternative futures and turn them into tangible artefacts and scenarios. Its starting point is that the future isn’t a straight line but a fractal.

I made the illustrations for the course’s identity and did their art direction, 3D and motion design. They’re three animated worlds that grow from simple rules into complex systems: a flock of particles that keeps changing shape, a burst of crystals branching out from a single point, and a grid of blocks that builds into structures. In pale sage and warm orange, they carry the identity from the website’s hero to the course’s free tools, as loops and stills cut for every format.

Credits

Agency
Hi Shine

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Contact

santeri@hishine.co

Helsinki, Finland