Surface Lvl — first pull

Your top ref direction, nailed. Fictional magazine, an invented face, split B&W / orange duotone, real cover-lines (“Level Up”, “Sound Doctrine”), barcode + faux 1992 date. Reads like a $50 designer tee — and it turns the brand name into the graphic.

IP: clean — no real person, no logos, our own masthead.

The Kitsuné-fox texture DNA, made ours. Geometric color-block ram rendered as a tufted chenille patch in cream / navy / brick — with a hand-script Surface Lvl lockup. This is a real candidate for the brand mark and the content-engine mascot.

IP: clean — original character.