Live examples

Architectural Blueprint

technical / cut score 8/10

Construction document for a personal AI practice. Every page is a numbered sheet (A-001/12) with title block, dimension lines, isometric drawing, materials schedule.

Bloomberg Brutalist

editorial / cut score 9/10

Treat 27 side projects as a financial holdings book — every shipped repo is a position, every WIP is open volume, every category is a sector.

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upneja-ai through Cinema Letterbox

Cinema Letterbox

photographic / cut score 8/10

A portfolio presented like an A24 feature film. Title cards in 2.39:1 letterbox, Trajan caps for titles, monospace Courier for runtime captions.

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upneja-ai through Frutiger Aero Revival

Frutiger Aero Revival

y2k-revival / cut score 7/10

Windows Vista welcome screen circa 2007 — wallpaper meets brand site. Earnest, tropical, glossy, full of light. Portfolio as a sunny pond with bubbles drifting up.

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upneja-ai through Liquid Glass

Liquid Glass

glass / cut score 7/10

iOS 26 / Vision Pro spatial UI ported to a personal portfolio. Every surface is a refractive lens floating over a colored, alive background — the portfolio feels like a desk in zero-g.

Maximalist Collage

maximalist / cut score 8/10

A physical scrapbook of 27 projects assembled at a kitchen table at 2am. Polaroids, washi tape, marker scribbles, ransom-note type-pairings. Restraint is the enemy.

Notebook Sketch

hand-drawn / cut score 7/10

A FigJam board printed out and pinned to a real wall. Sticky notes, taped corners, wobbly hand-drawn arrows, casual lowercase voice. The portfolio as a thinking-out-loud space.

Sports Almanac

data-dense / cut score 8/10

Baseball-Reference for one person's side-project career. Ayush is the player, each project is a roster entry, each category is a position, every status is a stat line.

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upneja-ai through Surveillance Dossier

Surveillance Dossier

ornamental / cut score 9/10

Ayush's portfolio leaked from a manila folder. Every project is a case file, every category is a sector, every CTA is a typed-out instruction. Memos with redaction bars do the work.

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upneja-ai through Tactile Brutalism

Tactile Brutalism

brutalist / cut score 8/10

A wood-and-iron workshop catalogue. Ayush isn't a 'tech bro' — he's a craftsman with 27 tools laid out on a workbench, each labeled, each functional.

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reels (Creator OS) through Acid Graphics

Acid Graphics

maximalist / cut score 9/10

Creator OS as the cover of a Pangram type-foundry zine in 1997 on acid: chrome-melt italics, op-art swirls, single yellow smiley, lime + magenta on near-black.

Bloomberg Brutalist

editorial / cut score 9/10

A financial terminal pretending to be a Sunday magazine — Creator OS as a content trading desk where every brief, claim, and metric is a market signal.

CRT Terminal

technical / cut score 10/10

Creator OS as a 1986 phosphor-green dial-up BBS — creator-os@upneja:~$ — every command emits a build log, every brief is a man page.

Geocities Formal

archaeological / cut score 9/10

Creator OS as a hand-coded 1998 personal homepage on Geocities — Times New Roman, default-blue underlined links, tiled background, MARQUEE tags, GIFs of construction signs.

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reels (Creator OS) through Pixel Art

Pixel Art

pixel / cut score 9/10

Creator OS as a PICO-8 cart — 16-color palette, 8x8 sprites, integer pixel grid. Each project tile is a sprite, each brief is a quest, each 'ship' is a level-up.

Risograph Zine

print / cut score 9/10

Creator OS as a hand-collated indie zine: cream paper, two-pass ink misregistration, halftone dots — like It's Nice That bound a folio of Ayush's filming briefs.

Sports Almanac

data-dense / cut score 8/10

Creator OS as a Baseball-Reference page for Ayush's content career: stat tables, career splits, OPS+ for posts, team color header bars per franchise.

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reels (Creator OS) through Surveillance Dossier

Surveillance Dossier

ornamental / cut score 9/10

Creator OS as a Cold War FOIA file: manila folders, typewriter carbons, red CLASSIFIED stamps over the day's filming brief — every claim gets a redaction bar until verified.

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jiyajale through Acid Graphics

Acid Graphics

maximalist / cut score 9/10

Y2K rave flyer crashed into a 2024 Pangram type-foundry site: Fraunces italic 900 melts into chrome-mercury gradients, every headline skews and warps.

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jiyajale through Bauhaus Geometric

Bauhaus Geometric

geometric / cut score 8/10

Karaoke as a Kandinsky composition: three primitives (red circle = vocal, blue square = instrumental, yellow triangle = action) carry every meaning.

CRT Terminal

technical / cut score 10/10

Jiyajale reframed as a single-purpose VT220 utility from 1986: green-on-black, ASCII boxes drawn with + and |, every action a typed command. Admits it's a Unix process.

Geocities Formal

archaeological / cut score 9/10

Jiyajale reframed as a 1999 GeoCities homepage built by an Indian aunty with affectionate cringe — Times New Roman, table layouts, marquee banners, animated stars, blink-text.

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jiyajale through Pixel Art

Pixel Art

pixel / cut score 9/10

A kids' karaoke arcade booth from 1993: Jiyajale rebuilt as an NES cartridge ripper, where mom's song becomes the boss fight and the vocals are the loot.

Risograph Zine

print / cut score 9/10

Jiyajale becomes a hand-printed audio zine — every page is a scanned spread from a fluorescent-pink-and-cyan riso pressing on cream stock.

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jiyajale through Skeuomorphic Revival

Skeuomorphic Revival

tactile / cut score 6/10

A 2009 GarageBand / Logic Pro X tape deck imagined as a personal karaoke factory — brushed-steel chassis screwed to a leather-lined desk, brass nameplates engraved with verbs.

Sports Almanac

data-dense / cut score 8/10

Karaoke as a stat-book: every song is a season entry filed against the Demucs League register, every screen is a page out of baseball-reference dot com.

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jiyajale through Swiss Editorial Grid

Swiss Editorial Grid

editorial / cut score 9/10

A karaoke tool re-cast as a printed Swiss design quarterly: rigid 12-column grid, Work Sans 900 at billboard scale flush-left against oceans of white.

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jiyajale through Tarot Mystical

Tarot Mystical

ornamental / cut score 8/10

Vocal separation as a divination rite: a three-card spread of gold-leafed tarot upon a midnight-indigo cosmos, where Demucs is the oracle.