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  • Writer: Rikki Henry
    Rikki Henry
  • 6 days ago
  • 2 min read

Crafting a Luxury Ceramic Identity through Emerging Tech

Over the past few months, I’ve been developing a fictional luxury ceramics brand called Cenovea—a creative exercise in branding, storytelling, and the experimentation of next‑generation tools.


At its core, Cenovea imagines ceramics as functional art: pieces that embody an opulent fusion of form and function, emerging from the earth yet elevated through vision and innovation. The brand narrative blends traditional ceramic craftsmanship with avant‑garde aesthetics, capturing a sense of timelessness while pushing into new creative territory.


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Why ?


I created Cenovea as a way to test how design identity, visual language, and narrative can converge into something that feels immersive, tangible, and aspirational—even in prototype form. It was less about selling physical objects and more about answering:

  • What does luxury look and feel like when translated into ceramics?

  • How can design tools and AI technologies enhance the storytelling process?

  • Where does function cross over into art, and how do we frame it?


My Workflow


To create the visual and sonic layers of Cenovea, I used a hybrid tech‑art workflow:

  • Nano Banana Google's image model → exploring cutting‑edge generative imagery to push conceptual mood boards further than ever before.

  • ComfyUI → building custom generations, refining coherence and style across visual assets.

  • Cinema 4D and After Effects → for animation and post‑production polish, injecting depth and life into the brand’s world.

  • ElevenLabs Voice Generation → creating evocative voice‑overs to tie emotion and identity into the brand story.


This pipeline allowed me to prototype a holistic vision—visual identity, motion storytelling, and sonic atmosphere—without relying on traditional product shoots or manufacturing.


The Core Idea


Each Cenovea piece conjures the image of earth‑born opulence: raw material transformed into elevated forms. These ceramics live at the seam between traditional mastery and modern innovation, designed not only to decorate spaces but to endure as functional works of art.


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