Cohort
Sprint 02 of 05
Craft Sprint
Someone says the screen feels flat and you can’t say which of twelve things to fix. In two days, depth, light and texture stop being taste and become a rulebook you write, hold across three screens, and use to make a brand survive inside a product.
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10 of 150 seats remaining
2 Days (Weekend)
Duration
Starts
₹2,500
+ GST
Investment
Cohort
Sprint 02 of 05
Craft Sprint
Someone says the screen feels flat and you can’t say which of twelve things to fix. In two days, depth, light and texture stop being taste and become a rulebook you write, hold across three screens, and use to make a brand survive inside a product.
Waitlist
10 of 150 seats remaining
2 Days (Weekend)
Duration
Starts
₹2,500
+ GST
Investment
Cohort
Sprint 02 of 05
Craft Sprint
Someone says the screen feels flat and you can’t say which of twelve things to fix. In two days, depth, light and texture stop being taste and become a rulebook you write, hold across three screens, and use to make a brand survive inside a product.
Waitlist
10 of 150 seats remaining
2 Days (Weekend)
Duration
Starts
₹2,500
+ GST
Investment
Surface as a Rulebook
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Grain, Glass, Light, Shadow
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Six Ladders, Values Printed
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One Rule, Three Screens
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Break the Glass
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One Product, New Audience
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Occasion Layers
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A Second Mode That Holds
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Surface as a Rulebook
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Grain, Glass, Light, Shadow
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Six Ladders, Values Printed
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Is this curriculum for you?
Do you also think like this?
If any of these feels familiar, you’re exactly who this curriculum is built for.
BEGINNER
“I add a shadow and a blur and it looks worse.”
You’ll learn one light source, one elevation logic and how much grain is enough, with the number printed on every step.
1–3 YEARS
“My screens are correct and flat. I can’t say what’s missing.”
You’ll add surface in five steps, changing nothing in layout, type or palette, and see exactly which step did the work.
3–5 YEARS
“I can make one screen look good. The next one never matches.”
You’ll fill in a rulebook of values, not adjectives, and hold it across three screens until the shadows and glass agree.
5+ YEARS
“Our brand gets loud in campaigns and breaks in the product.”
You’ll redirect a known product for a very different audience, brand and clarity intact, plus a festival layer you can add and remove cleanly.
Is this curriculum for you?
Do you also think like this?
If any of these feels familiar, you’re exactly who this curriculum is built for.
BEGINNER
“I add a shadow and a blur and it looks worse.”
You’ll learn one light source, one elevation logic and how much grain is enough, with the number printed on every step.
1–3 YEARS
“My screens are correct and flat. I can’t say what’s missing.”
You’ll add surface in five steps, changing nothing in layout, type or palette, and see exactly which step did the work.
3–5 YEARS
“I can make one screen look good. The next one never matches.”
You’ll fill in a rulebook of values, not adjectives, and hold it across three screens until the shadows and glass agree.
5+ YEARS
“Our brand gets loud in campaigns and breaks in the product.”
You’ll redirect a known product for a very different audience, brand and clarity intact, plus a festival layer you can add and remove cleanly.
Is this curriculum for you?
Do you also think like this?
If any of these feels familiar, you’re exactly who this curriculum is built for.
BEGINNER
“I add a shadow and a blur and it looks worse.”
You’ll learn one light source, one elevation logic and how much grain is enough, with the number printed on every step.
1–3 YEARS
“My screens are correct and flat. I can’t say what’s missing.”
You’ll add surface in five steps, changing nothing in layout, type or palette, and see exactly which step did the work.
3–5 YEARS
“I can make one screen look good. The next one never matches.”
You’ll fill in a rulebook of values, not adjectives, and hold it across three screens until the shadows and glass agree.
5+ YEARS
“Our brand gets loud in campaigns and breaks in the product.”
You’ll redirect a known product for a very different audience, brand and clarity intact, plus a festival layer you can add and remove cleanly.
Why your surfaces aren’t holding
Why does it look great once,
then fall apart on screen two?
Four habits keep good surface work from turning into a system.
01
You collect effects, not rules
Six impressive effects and no rule is a pile. The moment you open a second screen, the shadows disagree and the glass changes.
02
Your specs are adjectives
Soft, rich, glassy. None of these is a value. An engineer can’t build them, and you can’t repeat them next week.
03
Your brand breaks inside the product
Expression costs clarity at some point. Nobody tells you where, so you find out from a user who can’t read the button.
04
You never check the second mode
A second mode changes shadows, images, elevation, borders and saturation all at once. Without a check, it breaks what you built for the first.
Why your surfaces aren’t holding
Why does it look great once,
then fall apart on screen two?
Four habits keep good surface work from turning into a system.
01
You collect effects, not rules
Six impressive effects and no rule is a pile. The moment you open a second screen, the shadows disagree and the glass changes.
02
Your specs are adjectives
Soft, rich, glassy. None of these is a value. An engineer can’t build them, and you can’t repeat them next week.
03
Your brand breaks inside the product
Expression costs clarity at some point. Nobody tells you where, so you find out from a user who can’t read the button.
04
You never check the second mode
A second mode changes shadows, images, elevation, borders and saturation all at once. Without a check, it breaks what you built for the first.
Why your surfaces aren’t holding
Why does it look great once,
then fall apart on screen two?
Four habits keep good surface work from turning into a system.
01
You collect effects, not rules
Six impressive effects and no rule is a pile. The moment you open a second screen, the shadows disagree and the glass changes.
02
Your specs are adjectives
Soft, rich, glassy. None of these is a value. An engineer can’t build them, and you can’t repeat them next week.
03
Your brand breaks inside the product
Expression costs clarity at some point. Nobody tells you where, so you find out from a user who can’t read the button.
04
You never check the second mode
A second mode changes shadows, images, elevation, borders and saturation all at once. Without a check, it breaks what you built for the first.
What do you actually get?
Your surfaces finally
hold together.
Four things you can do after Sunday that you couldn’t do before.
You describe surfaces in values
Depth, light and texture become numbers you can repeat, not adjectives like soft, rich and glassy.
You hold one rule across screens
Shadows, glass and grain agree from the first screen to the last.
You know which step did the work
You see what each surface change adds, so you stop piling on effects.
Your brand survives the product
You know where expression starts to cost clarity, and you can add an occasion layer without touching the brand.
What do you actually get?
Your surfaces finally
hold together.
Four things you can do after Sunday that you couldn’t do before.
You describe surfaces in values
Depth, light and texture become numbers you can repeat, not adjectives like soft, rich and glassy.
You hold one rule across screens
Shadows, glass and grain agree from the first screen to the last.
You know which step did the work
You see what each surface change adds, so you stop piling on effects.
Your brand survives the product
You know where expression starts to cost clarity, and you can add an occasion layer without touching the brand.
What do you actually get?
Your surfaces finally
hold together.
Four things you can do after Sunday that you couldn’t do before.
You describe surfaces in values
Depth, light and texture become numbers you can repeat, not adjectives like soft, rich and glassy.
You hold one rule across screens
Shadows, glass and grain agree from the first screen to the last.
You know which step did the work
You see what each surface change adds, so you stop piling on effects.
Your brand survives the product
You know where expression starts to cost clarity, and you can add an occasion layer without touching the brand.
What will you do?
Two days.
Three hours each.
Saturday you build the rulebook. Sunday you make a brand survive inside it. Both days you build. Everyone works alone.
Day 01 · Saturday
Surface and material as a system
Values, not adjectives.
Learn why what a surface is made of decides everything placed on it
Set grain, noise and dithering by amount and opacity, and see why grain fixes banding
Push a glass card until it stops being readable, then step back one, and agree on the line with the room
Get borders, inset highlights and one-light-source shadow right
Use the four blend modes that actually get used
Apply the restraint rule: one surface idea per screen
Output: A filled rulebook, and one screen taken through five surface steps.
Day 02 · Sunday
Brand expression inside a product
Expression, without losing clarity.
See what each category’s colour convention expects, and what it costs to break it
Separate product voice from marketing voice, and find where expression starts to hurt usability
Redirect one known product for a very different audience
Add a festival layer in twenty minutes, without touching the brand
Pull a palette from a photograph the right way
Check that a second mode still works when expression goes up
Output: Three screens holding one rule, a redirected brand, and an occasion layer that comes off cleanly.
What will you do?
Two days.
Three hours each.
Saturday you build the rulebook. Sunday you make a brand survive inside it. Both days you build. Everyone works alone.
Day 01 · Saturday
Surface and material as a system
Values, not adjectives.
Learn why what a surface is made of decides everything placed on it
Set grain, noise and dithering by amount and opacity, and see why grain fixes banding
Push a glass card until it stops being readable, then step back one, and agree on the line with the room
Get borders, inset highlights and one-light-source shadow right
Use the four blend modes that actually get used
Apply the restraint rule: one surface idea per screen
Output: A filled rulebook, and one screen taken through five surface steps.
Day 02 · Sunday
Brand expression inside a product
Expression, without losing clarity.
See what each category’s colour convention expects, and what it costs to break it
Separate product voice from marketing voice, and find where expression starts to hurt usability
Redirect one known product for a very different audience
Add a festival layer in twenty minutes, without touching the brand
Pull a palette from a photograph the right way
Check that a second mode still works when expression goes up
Output: Three screens holding one rule, a redirected brand, and an occasion layer that comes off cleanly.
What will you do?
Two days.
Three hours each.
Saturday you build the rulebook. Sunday you make a brand survive inside it. Both days you build. Everyone works alone.
Day 01 · Saturday
Surface and material as a system
Values, not adjectives.
Learn why what a surface is made of decides everything placed on it
Set grain, noise and dithering by amount and opacity, and see why grain fixes banding
Push a glass card until it stops being readable, then step back one, and agree on the line with the room
Get borders, inset highlights and one-light-source shadow right
Use the four blend modes that actually get used
Apply the restraint rule: one surface idea per screen
Output: A filled rulebook, and one screen taken through five surface steps.
Day 02 · Sunday
Brand expression inside a product
Expression, without losing clarity.
See what each category’s colour convention expects, and what it costs to break it
Separate product voice from marketing voice, and find where expression starts to hurt usability
Redirect one known product for a very different audience
Add a festival layer in twenty minutes, without touching the brand
Pull a palette from a photograph the right way
Check that a second mode still works when expression goes up
Output: Three screens holding one rule, a redirected brand, and an occasion layer that comes off cleanly.
What you take home
Everything is yours
to reuse.
Templates and cards you’ll use on every project after this one.
Day 01 · Saturday
Your surface rulebook
What you leave Saturday with.
Surface rulebook, filled, plus the template
One screen through five surface steps
Rejected versions, with reasons
Grain strip: one gradient, six amounts
Blend-mode card: four modes, one example each
Day 02 · Sunday
Your rule, held and redirected
What you leave Sunday with.
Three screens holding one rule
One brand redirected for a new audience
Occasion-layer kit that comes off cleanly
Expression cost scale, one product per rung
Second-mode checklist, five checks
Three starter screens
What you take home
Everything is yours
to reuse.
Templates and cards you’ll use on every project after this one.
Day 01 · Saturday
Your surface rulebook
What you leave Saturday with.
Surface rulebook, filled, plus the template
One screen through five surface steps
Rejected versions, with reasons
Grain strip: one gradient, six amounts
Blend-mode card: four modes, one example each
Day 02 · Sunday
Your rule, held and redirected
What you leave Sunday with.
Three screens holding one rule
One brand redirected for a new audience
Occasion-layer kit that comes off cleanly
Expression cost scale, one product per rung
Second-mode checklist, five checks
Three starter screens
What you take home
Everything is yours
to reuse.
Templates and cards you’ll use on every project after this one.
Day 01 · Saturday
Your surface rulebook
What you leave Saturday with.
Surface rulebook, filled, plus the template
One screen through five surface steps
Rejected versions, with reasons
Grain strip: one gradient, six amounts
Blend-mode card: four modes, one example each
Day 02 · Sunday
Your rule, held and redirected
What you leave Sunday with.
Three screens holding one rule
One brand redirected for a new audience
Occasion-layer kit that comes off cleanly
Expression cost scale, one product per rung
Second-mode checklist, five checks
Three starter screens
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this for beginners or experienced designers?
Both. You need basic Figma. The rulebook is the same for everyone, and the redirect brief scales to your level.
Will I learn effects and tricks?
A few, but that’s not the point. A student who leaves with six effects and no rule hasn’t passed. A student who leaves with one plain rule held across three screens has.
Do I need my own product to work on?
No. We give you three starter screens so the consistency check has something to run against.
How is my work marked?
On whether every rulebook field holds identically across all three screens, not on your best single frame.
What is an occasion layer?
A festival layer you add in twenty minutes without touching the brand underneath, and take off cleanly.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this for beginners or experienced designers?
Both. You need basic Figma. The rulebook is the same for everyone, and the redirect brief scales to your level.
Will I learn effects and tricks?
A few, but that’s not the point. A student who leaves with six effects and no rule hasn’t passed. A student who leaves with one plain rule held across three screens has.
Do I need my own product to work on?
No. We give you three starter screens so the consistency check has something to run against.
How is my work marked?
On whether every rulebook field holds identically across all three screens, not on your best single frame.
What is an occasion layer?
A festival layer you add in twenty minutes without touching the brand underneath, and take off cleanly.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this for beginners or experienced designers?
Both. You need basic Figma. The rulebook is the same for everyone, and the redirect brief scales to your level.
Will I learn effects and tricks?
A few, but that’s not the point. A student who leaves with six effects and no rule hasn’t passed. A student who leaves with one plain rule held across three screens has.
Do I need my own product to work on?
No. We give you three starter screens so the consistency check has something to run against.
How is my work marked?
On whether every rulebook field holds identically across all three screens, not on your best single frame.
What is an occasion layer?
A festival layer you add in twenty minutes without touching the brand underneath, and take off cleanly.
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