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Darii Nicoleta — Fire-Horse campaign figure in a dalmatian fur coat and red-horse dress, cut out on black

EXCELLENT, PLEASE.

Excellence, politely demanded. Of ourselves first. Brand identity, web design, social media and AI-driven campaigns for wine, beauty and lifestyle brands.

虛實 — THE VOID AND THE SUBSTANCE

THE POSITION

A brand is a promise of excellence: made politely, kept relentlessly, in every place it is seen.

I work where strategy meets art direction: deciding how a product is seen (label, screen, feed) and keeping that one decision intact everywhere. Trained in Strasbourg; working across France, Italy, Romania, Moldova and Cyprus.

「一箭中的」— precisely on target

SELECTED WORK

Our works

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THE PRACTICE

DESIGN

Identity, web and packaging. The shape a brand takes before it says anything: positioning, the room it leaves, the one visual system that survives every surface it lands on, from label to interface.

The yin-yang sphere held in the campaign photography — balance
陰陽 — design and growth, in balance

GROWTH

Social, campaigns, e-commerce and AI imagery. The brand in motion: execution, the season sold, the numbers that come back. Built to be measured, not only admired.

WHAT I MAKE

Services

01

Brand Identity

Logo, palette, type system, packaging direction and the guidelines that keep it intact after I hand it over. Built from positioning, not from a mood board.

Logo & MarqueGuidelinesPackagingArt Direction
identity
02

Web & Interface

Responsive sites and interfaces designed to convert, not just to win awards: structure first, then the surface. Online stores built and shipped on WordPress and WooCommerce, Shopify or Webflow, with the CRM and automation wired in behind them so the shop, the mailing list and the sales pipeline are one system rather than three.

UI / UXE-CommerceWooCommerceCRM & AutomationLanding PagesPrototyping
interface
03

Social & Content

Content strategy and the visuals that carry it: feed direction, campaign assets, event and influencer coordination. The part most identities die in.

StrategyFeed DesignCampaignsShort-Form Video
content
04

AI Creative Direction

Generated imagery and video, directed: prompt systems, look development and a workflow that produces a consistent brand world instead of a folder of pretty accidents.

Image & VideoPrompt SystemsLook Development
direction

Brand identity, web design, social media, AI campaigns, packaging, art direction, e-commerce, campaign imagery, guidelines, content strategy.

50+Projects delivered
4Years in practice
5Languages spoken
5Markets served

One system,
every surface.

Identity — web — social — AI · 2026

Fire-Horse campaign — the model appears before the pagoda tower in a storm of red petals
The pagoda tower in falling red petals, empty scene, left half
The same empty pagoda scene, right half

On the shelf

Labels, packaging and print that hold the same voice as the feed.

On the screen

Sites, social and campaigns cut from the same system.

HOW IT RUNS

The method

Four movements. You always know which one we are in, what I need from you, and what you get at the end of it.

01

Listen

Positioning, audience, competitors, and the honest version of what is not working. Nothing is designed in this phase.

02

Explore

Two or three distinct directions, each argued. Not one idea dressed three ways. You pick.

03

Build

The chosen direction becomes a full system: the assets, layouts and states you use every week.

04

Hand over

Files, guidelines and a walkthrough so your team runs it without me. Support after, if you want it.

STRATEGY AND CRAFT

Darii Nicoleta — close portrait from the Fire-Horse campaign, white fur collar

Strategy and craft,
in one hand.

Graphic and web designer with agency training and direct-to-founder experience: brand identity, web and e-commerce, social and AI-driven content for wine, beauty, food and hospitality, across France, Italy, Romania, Moldova and Cyprus.

My philosophy centers on 虛實 (xū shí), the void and the substance. In Chinese painting the two define each other: the unpainted ground is never dead space, it is what lets the viewer breathe and what gives the mountain its force. The same holds on a page. The pause is what gives the mark its weight.

Brand identity, editorial design and digital experiences, built where strategy meets uncompromising visual intent.

THE ALLIANCE

excellent.pleaseSubtl~ME

— the void and the substance

STRUCTURE FIRST,then THE SURFACE.

On this site that order is a working method, not a slogan, and each half has a name. excellent.please directs the surface: brand, art direction, interface, motion. Everything the user sees and touches. SUBTLME builds and operates the structure: databases, security, e-commerce integrations, payments, AI automation. The systems that hold under traffic. One brief, two crafts, one system delivered. No handover in the middle.

BRAND & DIRECTION — excellent.please ENGINEERING & AI — SubtlME