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cut14, a Five Eight One venture
Status
Private beta, iPhone and web
Five Eight One
Concept, creative strategy, creative direction, full app build and UI design. All graphic design, including brand identity and hand lettering, the icon set and the launch film.
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ProductiPhone & web appPrivate beta

you shoot. we cut it.

An app that turns the clips stylists already film into reels they would actually post.

The idea

Stylists film their work every day. The footage dies in the camera roll.

Editing takes an evening nobody behind the chair has. cut14 watches every clip, finds the moments worth showing, and cuts the reel the way a stylist would: the before, the process, the finished look.

This one is ours. Hope did hair before she built a social agency, so Five Eight One shaped cut14 from the chair out: the product, the brand, the app and the film that introduces it.

Product strategyBrand identityHand letteringApp designLaunch film
The mark

Drawn by hand, like the work.

The wordmark and the 14 are hand-lettered: chunky, soft-cornered and a little imperfect on purpose. Olive and butter on near black, so it reads like a tool, not a template.

Hand-lettered 14 in bright yellow on blackHand-lettered 14 in butter on blackA hand-drawn cut14 glyph studyA repeating pattern built from the cut14 letterforms
Ink
Olive
Yellow
Butter
Paper
The icons

Five icons, one hand.

The tab bar is drawn in the same hand as the wordmark, so the whole app feels made by a person.

Hand-drawn house iconHome
Hand-drawn library iconLibrary
Hand-drawn plus iconMake
Hand-drawn thumbs up iconFinished
Hand-drawn portrait iconYou
The app

Camera roll to posted, in six steps.

One idea per screen, written the way a stylist talks. Nothing is made until you say so.

cut14 app screen: first things first, add footage
01 · Start
Add footage from a shoot.
cut14 app screen: learn my style from my instagram
02 · Learn
It learns your style from your own posts.
cut14 app screen: starring the best moments in a clip
03 · Star
Star the moments you love.
cut14 app screen: reel ideas built from the clips
04 · Ideas
It shows what your clips can make.
cut14 app screen: editing on a filmstrip
05 · Edit
Trim, crop, swap or split any clip.
cut14 app screen: your reel is ready
06 · Approve
Approve it. Every answer teaches it your taste.
The rules

Nothing faked.

For a stylist, a fake transformation is a reputation risk. So the product has rules.

01

It knows the trade.

It recognizes a before, the process and the finished look, and tells the story in that order.

02

It never fakes it.

No made-up before and after. No AI voices, no avatars, no generated footage. Your real work only.

03

Your footage stays yours.

It is never used to train AI, and you can delete everything from inside the app.

The film

The walkthrough.

A short film that introduces the app the same way the app talks: one idea per screen, nothing extra.

Title card: cut14, you shoot. we cut it.Film frame: free preview, nothing is made until you say so

you shoot. we cut it.

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