Design Branding & design agency for international brands

Many of the brands we meet are not tied to a single market. A founder in one country sells into another, a product is made in a third, and the website, the packaging and the pitch deck have to make sense to all of those readers at once. Design for that kind of company is less about decoration and more about consistency: one name, one logo, one set of colours and type, applied the same way everywhere.

We work from studios in Riyadh, Jeddah, Manama, London, Lahore and Karachi, so a project can be shaped by people who know the Gulf, the UK and South Asia first-hand. We do not need you to be in the same room. Briefing sessions, creative reviews and hand-over all run by video call, with WhatsApp and email for quick questions and file exchange. Where a project needs us on site, for a shoot or a launch, we say so in the proposal and agree it with you first.

Language is usually the first design decision. If your customers read both English and Arabic, the two scripts need to be drawn to work together from the beginning, not translated at the end. A wordmark, a business card, a signboard and a website header all behave differently when one line runs left to right and the next runs right to left. We build the identity so that both versions look like the same company, and we set up templates so your staff can keep them that way.

International buyers also tend to need more formats than a local one. A logo has to work on a tender cover, a trade-show banner, a social avatar, an invoice and a shop sign. Colour has to survive a cheap office printer and a premium print job. We deliver logo files for print and screen, colour and font specifications, and written brand guidelines, so a supplier in another country can reproduce the brand without calling you.

The kinds of companies that brief us from abroad are varied: exporters and distributors who need a credible face for new markets, technology and service firms preparing a first serious website, hospitality and retail groups opening in a new city, and consultancies that want their reports and decks to look like one house. Whatever the sector, the process is the same: a brief, a few genuinely different creative routes with reasons behind them, the chosen route built out across real applications, and a clean hand-over.

If you are comparing agencies across borders, the practical questions matter most. Who will you talk to, in which language, at what hours, and how are files and feedback handled? Tell us your time zone and your working language and we will set the rhythm of the project around them. Send us a short note about your business and what has to change, and we will reply with how we would approach it.