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Branding & Visual Design

A brand system that stays consistent across every touchpoint.

Identity, guidelines, and asset libraries engineered for reuse, so your team ships on-brand work at speed.

  • Dubai head office, GCC-wide delivery
  • Arabic and English throughout
  • Written scope and fixed timeline before you commit

You walk away with

  • Identity systems
  • Guidelines
  • Asset libraries
  • Pitch collateral

Typical timeline

5–9 weeks

Typical engagements start around

AED 14,000 per project

What good looks like

asset library, not a folder of final-final files
1asset library, not a folder of final-final files
scripts designed together, Arabic and Latin
2scripts designed together, Arabic and Latin
routes explored before one is developed
3routes explored before one is developed

The problem this solves

The brand looks right in the PDF and falls apart the moment it meets a product. Nobody knows which red is correct, the logo has four unofficial variants in circulation, and every new asset is a negotiation.

Where this usually hurts

  • Every deck looks like a different company

    No system means each person improvises, and the brand reads as inconsistent to exactly the customers you are trying to convince.

  • The Arabic lockup was an afterthought

    A Latin logo with Arabic bolted alongside, in a typeface chosen because it was available, undermining credibility with half the market.

  • Guidelines nobody uses

    A hundred-page PDF describing ideals, with no templates or components, so the team keeps rebuilding from scratch.

  • Assets are lost

    Source files live on a former employee's laptop, and every new piece starts by recreating something that already existed.

We build brand systems for companies that ship software, which is a different problem from branding a physical product. A logo has to work at 16 pixels in a browser tab. A palette has to pass contrast requirements. A typeface has to load fast and support every script your customers read in.

Digital constraints come first

We design against real constraints rather than discovering them later: contrast ratios checked at the palette stage, type scales tested at body sizes on a phone, the mark drawn so it survives being shrunk to a favicon. It is less romantic than a brand book and considerably more useful.

  • Every colour pair checked against WCAG 2.2 AA before it enters the palette
  • Type tested at 14px on a mid-range phone, not at 96px in a presentation
  • Marks drawn to survive a 16px favicon and a monochrome print
  • Multi-script support specified where you operate in more than one

Guidelines people follow

A 90-page PDF nobody opens is not a brand system. We ship design tokens in code alongside the documentation, so the palette is the same object the engineers import — the guidelines and the product cannot drift apart, because they are the same source.

Enough assets to actually launch

Identity work often stops just before it becomes useful. We include the unglamorous set: social templates, email headers, presentation masters, favicon and app icons at every required size, and Open Graph cards.

What is included

  • Discovery and positioning

    Where you sit against competitors and what the brand has to communicate in one glance.

  • Identity system

    Mark, wordmark and the lockups you will actually need, drawn for digital first.

  • Palette and type

    Contrast-checked colour and a type scale tested at real body sizes on real devices.

  • Design tokens

    The system as code — CSS custom properties and a typed module your app imports.

  • Guidelines

    Short, practical, and written for the people producing assets next month.

  • Asset library

    Social, email, presentation, favicon, app icons and Open Graph cards, exported and organised.

What we build with

  • Identity

    • Figma
    • Adobe Illustrator
    • Variable fonts
  • Systems

    • Design tokens
    • Component templates
    • Asset management
  • Application

    • Presentation templates
    • Social kits
    • Print and signage specs

How engagements are sized

Three sizes, so the scope matches the problem rather than the budget matching a template. Every tier is a starting point — the number moves with what we find in discovery, and you see the revised figure before anything is signed.

  • Essential

    One clear problem, scoped tightly and shipped.

    From

    AED 14,000

    per project

    A refresh: logo, palette, type and the essentials, applied consistently.

    • Logo and bilingual lockup
    • Core palette and type
    • Basic templates
    Get a firm number
  • Growth

    The full engagement, with measurement and iteration built in.

    From

    AED 40,000

    per project

    A full identity system with rollout across the touchpoints you use.

    • 3 explored routes
    • Complete design system
    • Templates and asset library
    Get a firm number
  • Enterprise

    Multi-entity, regulated, or integrated across several systems.

    From

    AED 95,000

    per project

    Multi-brand architecture, naming, or a rebrand across many markets.

    • Brand architecture
    • Naming and messaging
    • Multi-market rollout
    Get a firm number

Prices are in AED excluding 5% VAT. Other currencies on the pricing page.

How delivery actually runs

The phases below are what a typical engagement moves through, with the durations we plan against. You always know which phase you are in and what leaves it.

See the full process
  1. 1

    Positioning

    1–2 weeks

    What the business actually is, who it is for, and how it differs — agreed with leadership before anything visual is drawn.

  2. 2

    Identity routes

    2–3 weeks

    Three distinct directions explored properly in both scripts, presented in real contexts rather than on a white square.

  3. 3

    Develop and systematise

    2–3 weeks

    The chosen route refined into a full system: type scale, colour with contrast checked, iconography, layout and photography direction.

  4. 4

    Roll out

    1–2 weeks

    Templates and components your team actually uses — decks, documents, social, signage — plus an organised asset library.

  • Positioning · You get

    • Positioning statement
    • Audience definition
    • Competitive audit
  • Identity routes · You get

    • 3 identity routes
    • Bilingual lockups
    • In-context mockups
  • Develop and systematise · You get

    • Full identity system
    • Accessible colour palette
    • Type and layout rules
  • Roll out · You get

    • Usable templates
    • Asset library
    • Guidelines and training

Built for the UAE

What working with a Dubai partner actually changes

Most of what follows is invisible until it goes wrong — a supplier who cannot keep data in-country, an invoice the FTA rejects, a support rota that is asleep for half of your working day. These are the questions we answer before they become findings.

A credible UAE brand is bilingual by design. Arabic is not a translation of the wordmark — it is a second piece of lettering that has to carry the same character, sit at the right optical weight beside the Latin, and work at signage scale. We design both together rather than adapting one into the other.

  • Data residency, decided up front

    AWS me-central-1, Azure UAE North and OCI Dubai are all in scope. We map the whole data path — backups, logs, metrics and support access — rather than the primary database alone, and put the result in writing.

  • PDPL, and the free zones

    Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 governs most of the mainland; DIFC and ADGM entities fall under their own data protection laws instead. We establish which applies to your entity before we design anything that touches personal data.

  • VAT and e-invoicing that pass

    Five per cent VAT, FTA-compliant tax invoices, the audit file the authority can request, and readiness for e-invoicing as the mandate phases in. Configured in the build, not patched after the first filing is rejected.

  • Your hours, your languages

    Delivery runs on Gulf hours with real overlap with your team, in Arabic and English. Customer-facing interfaces, documents and training are produced in both where you need them, with RTL treated as a design requirement rather than a translation step.

Sectors we do this in most

Not the only sectors we work in — the ones where we have shipped this service enough times to know the regulatory edges and the usual traps.

  • Real Estate

    Listing and portal experiences that turn browsers into leads.

  • Travel & Hospitality

    Booking flows that reduce drop-off and drive direct revenue.

  • Media & Entertainment

    Content platforms tuned for retention and subscriptions.

In-house, generalist agency, or us

An honest comparison, including where the other two options are the better call.

Hiring in-houseWorking with us
Time to first outputThree to five months to source, notice-period and onboard, in a market where senior specialists are scarce and expensive.Two to three weeks from signature, with people who have shipped this before.
Cost shapeFixed monthly cost plus visa, insurance, end-of-service and equipment, whether or not there is a full workload.Scoped to the work. Costs stop when the work does.
Breadth of skillOne or two specialisms per hire. Anything outside them gets improvised or outsourced anyway.Design, engineering, security and growth from the same team, without a handoff between vendors.
Institutional knowledgeStays in the building — which is the real advantage, and the reason to hire eventually.Documented and handed over. We write runbooks so you can take it back in-house.
When it is the wrong choiceRarely, once the workload is genuinely full-time and permanent.If you need someone in your standups every day for years, hire. We will say so.

Questions people ask before starting

Usually not. Most companies need the existing brand made consistent and fit for digital — a corrected palette, a working type scale, proper assets. We will tell you if a refresh is enough, and that is the cheaper answer.

Ready to talk about Branding & Visual Design?

Tell us what you are building and where it is stuck. We will come back with a scope, a timeline and a number — usually within two working days.

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