Thinura Anjana / FORGE Studio

Enter the world of FORGE.

Cinematic posters, brand identity, campaigns and UI/UX, forged by hand since 2019. One tribute poster aired on Indian television. One watch study took first of 200.

The archive.

Ten of fifty-plus posters, 2022 to 2026. Select any poster to see it full size.

More work waits in the Foundry
01 Manifesto

Manifesto

I design as if every frame could be paused. As if every screen could be screenshotted. As if every poster might one day hang on a wall, or run across a television in a country I have never visited. And one did.

07yrs

Since the first Photoshop tutorial in 2019.

200+

Designs shipped across posters, brands and screens.

01st

Place out of 200 entries, Best Watch Design 2022.

01TV

Tribute poster aired on Thanthi TV, India, 2022.

02 Recognition

Made it to air.
Took first of two hundred.

Two moments where the work left the studio and was judged by strangers.

30 Years of Vijayism poster artwork The artwork
2022 · Thanthi TV

30 Years of Vijayism, on Indian television

My tribute portrait for actor Vijay's thirtieth anniversary was picked up and broadcast by Thanthi TV in its anniversary coverage. Above is the broadcast clip.

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Rolex Day-Date 40 process board showing geometry, dial and bracelet builds
Rolex Day-Date 40 final design that won first place The winning piece
2022 · 1st of 200

First place, Best Watch Design

A Rolex Day-Date 40 study built around the President bracelet, ranked first of 200 entries at the Academy of Graphics. Above is the build process.

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03/ Selected work

Six projects.
Three disciplines.

Posters, brands and product screens from 2022 to 2026. Each one opens into the full process.

Joey Clothing mobile redesign screens
01

Joey Clothing / a redesign in trust

UX case study · 2026

A teardown of a live Sri Lankan e-commerce brand. Five usability and trust failures found across the customer journey, then the mobile flow rebuilt from registration to checkout, with a strategy report and a published Figma prototype.

  • UX research
  • Mobile redesign
  • E-commerce
  • Figma
Aired on Thanthi TV30 Years of Vijayism tribute portrait
02

30 Years of Vijayism / a career in one room

Conceptual portrait · 2022

Two portraits of the actor, gold-framed legacy above and present-day everyman seated below, surrounded by thirty years of artefacts. Awards on the floor, the debut-film magazine on the wall.

  • Conceptual
  • Composite
  • Editorial
  • Tribute
Seylune luxury fashion website
03

Seylune / luxury fashion frontend

Frontend website · 2026

A fictional luxury fashion store built for a web development assignment: a dark purple and gold visual system and a complete frontend across home, category, product, cart, account, search and about pages.

  • HTML / CSS / JS
  • E-commerce UI
  • Academic
Avengers: Doomsday poster versions side by side
04

Avengers: Doomsday / two versions, one lesson

Cinematic composition · 2025

Started with twenty-seven characters and a single-tone palette, then threw it out. Rebuilt with a controlled cast, a dual-Doom hierarchy and a green, purple and warm palette that finally read as Doomsday.

  • Photo-composite
  • Process study
  • Personal
1st of 200 entriesRolex Day-Date 40 design and palette work
05

Rolex Day-Date 40 / first place

Product illustration · 2022

A competition entry from my graphic design certificate course, built around the President bracelet and the Day-Date's 1956 heritage, shown with the full colour and gradient palette work.

  • Product
  • Illustration
  • Award
FORGE Studio identity system
06

FORGE Studio / my own mark

Brand identity · 2025 to now

It began as Master Creations in 2019, the name a self-taught teenager picks, and became FORGE Studio in 2025 as the work matured.

  • Brand identity
  • Logo system
  • Self-initiated
05 The mark

Master Creations
became FORGE.

A lightning stroke carrying a hidden F, built on a diagonal construction grid. Three colours, one typeface, and gradients that live only inside the symbol.

Heated Gold#FFC247
Ember Orange#FF8A00
Forged Steel#2B2B2B
AaGeneral Sans
Regular, Semibold, Bold
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Thinura Anjana sitting on a wooden rail in the hill country
Thinura Anjana · FORGE Studio
06 About

I taught myself design in 2019 with free YouTube tutorials and a copy of Photoshop.

I'm Thinura Anjana, Marketing Executive at Jeewa Education and the designer behind FORGE Studio. I started designing the year I finished my O/Ls and took on my first client work in 2020.

Seven years on, my work has aired on Indian television, placed first out of two hundred entries, and grown into FORGE Studio: a practice where cinematic design meets campaigns and digital product thinking.

Alongside work, I'm reading for a BBA (Hons) specialising in Management Information Systems at SLIIT, and I design event campaigns as Co-Editor of the SLIIT Business School Student Community.

Made by handThinura AnjanaDesigner, FORGE Studio
NowMarketing ExecutiveJeewa Education · since August 2026
StudioFORGE StudioFreelance design practice · since 2020
StudyingBBA (Hons), MISSLIIT · expected 2028
Design toolsPhotoshop · Figma · IllustratorPhotoshop at advanced level
2019

Started teaching myself design

Right after O/L exams. YouTube, Photoshop and persistence.

2020

First client work as Master Creations

Freelance posters, photo composition and visual branding.

2021

Photoshop & Illustrator Advanced Course

Academy of Graphics.

2022

First place, Best Watch Design

Rolex Day-Date 40 study, ranked first of 200 entries.

2022

30 Years of Vijayism airs on Thanthi TV

Tribute portrait featured in the actor's anniversary coverage.

2024

Started at SLIIT

BBA (Hons), specialising in Management Information Systems.

2025

Master Creations becomes FORGE Studio

A new identity for a more mature practice.

2026

Co-Editor, SBSS Community

Campaigns for Down the Wicket and Enchante. ADMELIORA'26 and Lantharuma 2027 in progress.

2026

Marketing Executive, Jeewa Education

Digital campaign materials and website content, since August.