Pattern Design & Visuals

🖤 Black Mamba

COMPANY

Black Mamba

ROLE

3D Designer

EXPERTISE

3D Modeling

YEAR

2022

Description

This collaboration with Black Mamba, an Argentine fashion label known for its dark elegance and conceptual approach, involved the creation of original 3D assets for both fashion and digital platforms.
The project included the design of stamp-ready patterns for garments and a full-screen cosmic background for the brand's website. Both deliverables extended the brand's aesthetic into sculptural and immersive dimensions.

Timeline

  • Phase 1: 3D modeling of symbolic patterns for stamping on garments.

  • Phase 2: Texture exploration, color variants, and material testing (stone, metal, marble).

  • Phase 3: Visual direction and 3D compositing for the website’s animated cosmic background.

  • Now: Continued collaboration on spatial storytelling and visual experiments.

Background

Black Mamba's creative direction embraces mysticism, symbolism, and experimental forms.
My role was to extend their visual language into the third dimension—translating abstract brand codes into sculptural pattern systems and space-inspired compositions that reflect the brand's core ethos: “make visible what hides in the dark.”

Process

  • Pattern Design:
    Modeled emblematic shapes in 3D, combining geometric motifs with organic cracks and worn textures to emulate ceremonial stones.

  • Stamp-Ready Surfaces:
    Simulated garment materials and surfaces to test how the designs would behave under light and on real fabrics.

  • Web Composition:
    Designed and rendered a layered space scene including planets, satellites, symbols, and Mamba marks floating in darkness—echoing themes of cosmic navigation and energy constellations.

Research & Planning

  • Studied the brand’s previous visual language and archives.

  • Researched ceremonial patterns, sacred geometry, and industrial stamping techniques.

  • Developed a moodboard aligned with Black Mamba’s materials and lighting palettes.

Design & Prototyping

  • Created several tileable textures and embossed effects using Blender and Octane.

  • Explored marble, onyx, and stone shaders to elevate the tactile quality of the designs.

  • Assembled a cosmic background using particles, 3D logos, and planetary compositions.

Development & Implementation

  • Delivered optimized 3D files and maps ready for stamping and print.

  • Provided animation-ready background visuals for web implementation.

  • Supported creative direction on how the assets should behave responsively on digital screens.

Solution

The result was a sculptural visual extension of Black Mamba’s identity—functional in fashion production and visually captivating in digital contexts.
The stamp pattern served both as a garment element and a modular texture system, while the cosmic background for the site immersed users in the brand’s ritual-like universe.

Key Features

  • 3D Pattern Design: High-detail models ready for stamping and embossing.

  • Cosmic Web Background: Full-screen 3D composition with custom brand elements.

  • Material Simulation: Stone, metal, marble aesthetics tailored to brand texture references.

  • Modular Assets: Repeatable textures and animated visual layers for screen and print.

Results

  • 👕 Garment patterns integrated into new collection visuals and prints

  • 💻 Web visuals live on brand website, creating an immersive browsing experience

  • 🌑 Extended the brand’s universe through new symbolic assets

  • 🎨 Ongoing collaboration for future visual and spatial experiments

Final Outcomes

  • 🧵 Pattern Integration
    The embossed 3D motifs were successfully adapted into physical garments, creating a tangible connection between digital modeling and textile application. The designs maintained their geometric depth when translated onto fabric, elevating the garments with a ceremonial, almost sculptural feel.


  • 🌌 Immersive Web Experience
    The cosmic background was implemented as a section on the Black Mamba website. It enhanced the digital identity of the brand, transforming the browsing experience into a spatial, dreamlike journey, where symbols float like constellations and subtle motion adds rhythm to navigation.


  • 🪨 Material Realism in Design
    Textures rendered in stone, marble, and polished metal gave the assets a sense of weight and elegance. These finishes aligned seamlessly with Black Mamba’s material language, pushing the brand further into a mystic tech aesthetic.


  • 🖼️ Visual Consistency Across Mediums
    From garment textures to screen visuals, the assets retained consistency and conceptual depth. The stamp designs were used not only in physical clothing but also across campaign visuals, moodboards, and promotional assets.


  • 🔁 Reusable Asset Library
    A modular collection of 3D symbols was delivered, allowing the brand to remix and reuse elements across future campaigns, print materials, and digital releases.