Case studies

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Brylo

Sweets & ice cream, Al Ain · Summer season

The brief was summer, but summer usually comes out loud and cheap. We kept the season and gave it a premium edge instead — Brylo’s brown and cream taken poolside, with turquoise, stone and coconut carrying the heat and every prop still inside the brand.

LookSummer with a premium edge; brand brown and cream taken poolside.

Brylo
Brylo
Brylo
Summer season campaign
Premium edge, not loud
Brand palette held outdoors

Adore

Chocolate, UAE · Visual Uplift

Adore were two years into the market and wanted a visual refresh that would actually move sales. We proposed a visual uplift built on their own brand colour and took the creative strategy, palette and styling end to end, presenting the product in a premium, unmistakable way. Running ads on the content brought a 20% lift in sales.

LookOne red world end to end; glove white, foil and gloss carry the contrast.

Adore
Adore
Adore
20% increase in sales
Creative strategy ours end to end
Built on the brand colour

Yala Bucha

Kombucha, UAE · Visual Uplift

Yala Bucha had been in the market a while, but kombucha is still unfamiliar to most people here and the name alone put buyers off. We shot it as a cold soft drink rather than a wellness product, so it reads as something you simply want to drink. That got people past the name and trying it — sales rose at least 10% and visibility online grew with them.

LookDaylight and real tables; fruit at full saturation does the colour-coding.

Yala Bucha
Yala Bucha
Yala Bucha
10%+ increase in sales
Stronger visibility online
Positioned as a soft drink

Y Bites

Brazilian cheese · Summer campaign

Brazilian cheese is almost always shown as traditional and old. For this summer campaign we went the other way — youthful, bright and modern, a look nobody in the category had given it — and the client could not have been happier with where it landed.

LookYouthful and bright; a traditional product pulled into the present.

Close-up of swirled cream cheese filling
Orange K-JO poster with hands holding Brazilian cheese snacks
Basket of cheese bread rings on an orange checked tablecloth, a hand reaching in
Woman holding two cheese balls over her eyes on an orange Snack Times poster
Summer campaign
A first for the category
Youthful, bright, modern

Sela

National Day campaign

A National Day campaign we built from the ground up — the location, the casting and the creative direction were all ours to propose, all pulled around the occasion. The client signed off on the idea and we delivered it end to end.

LookNational Day cues handled with restraint, not decoration.

Sela
Sela
National Day campaign
Location and casting sourced
Creative direction ours

Sandos

Burgers, UAE · Visual Uplift

Sandos is part of a larger brand line, but the page read like any other burger shop — nothing on it said who they were. We proposed a modern direction built on their own brand colours, which gave them something distinct to push through the winter season and lifted sales.

LookModern and clean, built on the brand colours rather than the category.

Cheeseburger and fries in a foil tray on a pink and yellow painted backdrop
Two foil trays of fries and fried chicken with dips, on blue tiles
Close-up of a beef and cheese slider on a brioche bun
Man on a sofa holding a loaded tray of cheesy fries
Modern direction on brand colours
Built for the winter season
Sales up after the switch

Talabat

Delivery platform · Campaigns, three years

Seasonal food campaign photography for a delivery platform, with a different visual direction for each occasion.

LookA different cultural register for every season, one production standard across all of them.

Talabat
Talabat
Talabat
3 years together
6 campaigns
7 cities on billboards

Emirati Cuisine Cookbook

ADAFSA, via Austin Macauley · Book photography & video

The first time Emirati home cooking has been documented at this scale for a government entity: 75 traditional recipes for the Abu Dhabi Agriculture & Food Safety Authority, shot through publisher Austin Macauley with five rotating chefs across 20 days. Two images per recipe, every plate built from scratch and held to one standard from the first day to the last.

LookDocumentary precision at book-print quality, identical from day one to day twenty-two.

Emirati Cuisine Cookbook
Emirati Cuisine Cookbook
Emirati Cuisine Cookbook
75 recipes, 150 images
20 shoot days, 5 chefs
First documentation of its kind

Well Health

Healthy food, KSA · Visual Uplift

Well Health came to us from an account built on discount offers, which made a healthy brand look cheap. We shifted it to lifestyle — the product and the life around it — in a single visual uplift, and it brought in an entirely different kind of customer.

LookLifestyle-led and clean; the product in a life, not in an offer.

Well Health
Well Health
Well Health
One-time visual uplift
Offer-led to lifestyle-led
Reached a new audience

Bake Notes

Cakes, UAE · Campaign + film series

Bake Notes wanted a limited-edition launch that felt like memory rather than marketing: cake as it was served in an old Emirati home, without tipping into costume. We built a three-film series and a full photo campaign around that idea, cast with Emirati talent speaking in Emirati accent so the nostalgia held.

LookVintage Emirati home; warm and lived-in, not a period piece.

Bake Notes
+5,000 followers
+30% engagement · 3-film series

Brylo House

Specialty coffee, Al Ain · Cinematic brand film

Brylo House came to us wanting a film and nothing else defined, so we built the idea, the 1960s English world it lives in, the cast, the wardrobe and the execution. Exterior scenes meant a 6am call and a twelve-hour day to hold the light — the film lifted engagement on their profile by over 50%.

Look1960s English vintage, warm palette, strict period discipline.

Brylo House
Brylo House
Man in a flat cap at the wheel of a classic car, over the words House of Brylo
+50% profile engagement
Concept to film, all in-house

Tweeq

Restaurant & café, Umm Al Quwain · Opening campaign film

Tweeq wanted their opening film to carry Saudi culture rather than simply show a café. We took the brief from ideation through cast, wardrobe, strategy, shoot and post — and the film came back exactly as they had pictured it, then travelled on social.

LookSaudi culture told straight, without the postcard version of it.

Tweeq
Tweeq
Tweeq
Opening campaign film
Ideation to post, end to end
Cast, wardrobe and strategy in-house

Al Baik

QSR · Campaign with Talabat

Food photography and visual direction for an AlBaik campaign with talabat.

LookFresh, colourful, youthful; a first modern read of a traditional brand.

Al Baik
Al Baik chicken submarine with fries and a drink on orange, beside a cut-out Talabat mark
Al Baik
Al Baik
First modern direction for the brand
Campaign with Talabat
Direction written from zero

Pizza Hut

QSR · Cricket World Cup campaign

Product photography and campaign imagery for Pizza Hut around the 2023 Cricket World Cup.

LookCampaign-led and bold, built to hold up at billboard scale.

Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut
Cricket World Cup 2023
In-store, outdoor and digital
Product and campaign frames

Al Safi

Dairy, KSA · High Production, via agency

Al Safi briefed their agency in Saudi, and the agency brought it to us because they trusted our efficiency and flawless delivery under the pressure of a strict timeline. The product shipped from Saudi to the UAE, and we shot 18 recipes across a two-day production.

LookClean recipe-led frames, built to run as a series.

Al Safi
Al Safi
18 recipes
Two-day shoot
Product shipped from KSA

TTC — The Three Cows

Cheese, GCC · Stop-motion recipe films, recurring

TTC come back to us year after year through their agency for one reason: they tried stop motion elsewhere and kept only ours. Each recipe film is hundreds of frames where a nudged camera or a shifted prop means starting the whole sequence again — the discipline is the deliverable.

LookStop motion, frame by frame, with nothing allowed to move but the food.

TTC — The Three Cows
TTC — The Three Cows
Returning client, year on year
Retained through their agency
Recipe films in stop motion

Adore

Chocolate, UAE · Six-plus campaigns

Six-plus shoots for Adore, and not one repeated a direction. Their trust is total — they are rarely on set — so we build each concept, get it approved and execute it, treating a new idea every time as the baseline rather than the bonus.

LookA different world each time, from red velvet through the rest of the range.

Adore
Adore
Adore
6+ shoots
A new direction every time
Concept to delivery in-house

White Burger

Burgers, UAE · Seasonal campaign + ads

The barbecue box was White Burger's big seasonal push, and it needed visuals that carried the heat rather than just showing the product. We handled direction, props and location, then ran the paid campaign off the same set of frames — the box closed the season 20% up on the previous winter, which had run without us.

LookOpen fire and smoke, shot vertical; rustic ingredients meeting a modern barbecue.

White Burger
White Burger
White Burger
+20% barbecue sales vs. previous winter
Full production + paid ads
One season

Just Burger

Burgers · Three campaigns

The charcoal and fire product was the one thing Just Burger's internal team could not shoot; live flame needs a crew that can control it safely and still make it look good. We ran three campaigns on that basis, and the product moved on the back of the fire visuals.

LookLive fire and charcoal, handled safely on set.

Two open burgers on a wooden board in front of open flames, with a spoon of chilli powder
Three burgers with melted cheese and chilli on a dark counter, smoke behind them
Stack of cheeseburgers with onion rings and fries against a wall of flame
Beef patties on a grill being lifted with a spatula
3 campaigns
Live-fire production
Capability the in-house team lacked

Henry

Burgers, food truck concept · Campaign

Henry is a pickup food-truck concept that needed to promise a fine-dining experience, with no dining room to shoot in. We built the entire mood inside a location the owner provided using props and direction alone, so the visuals sell a table the brand does not physically have.

LookVintage fine-dining, built from nothing in a private location.

Henry
Henry
Henry
Henry
Full set build in a private house
Fine-dining look, pickup concept
Props and direction in-house

Shot

Café · Rebrand content direction

Shot came to us mid-rebrand, moving from black to navy and white, with no existing reference for how the new identity should behave in content. We set the direction from zero — colour, styling and content strategy — built for where the brand was heading rather than where it had been.

LookNavy and white, built without a reference to lean on.

Woman seated under a Shot sign on a promenade, a goat standing beside her
Shot takeaway bags, juices and a dessert cup on a concrete step
Iced fruit drink on a table under a striped parasol, the Shot wordmark behind it
Man in a Shot apron walking past a white container painted with the brand's Arabic wordmark
Content direction for a rebrand
Colour, styling and strategy
Built for the brand's next phase

Almair

Coffee, UAE · Launch campaign

Almair arrived with coffee and nothing else: no idea, no location, no cast. We built the campaign end to end, and the hardest part was finding a location traditional enough to mean something without tipping into pastiche.

LookTraditional enough to mean something, restrained enough to stay artistic.

Almair
Almair
Almair
Full campaign from zero
Location, cast, wardrobe, props
Ideation to delivery

Luv Chix

Japanese-modern fast food, Abu Dhabi · Launch campaign

A Japanese-leaning fast food concept whose launch films lived or died on casting that actually read as the brand — the single hardest element to source. We found the right face through our supplier network and built the videos on a direction that matched the concept rather than a generic fast-food template.

LookJapanese-modern, cast and styled to the concept.

Chicken burger in an open box on a metal tray, lit magenta
Loaded chicken cup with a cocktail parasol, in magenta smoke
Two people sharing fried chicken sandwiches and hot wings on a pink tray
Luv Chix
Launch campaign
Casting sourced to brand direction
Supplier network for talent

CRMBZ

Burgers, Abu Dhabi · Seasonal campaign, via agency

Brought in through an agency, the goal was to transition the brand's visual identity into a distinct summer direction. We proposed a fresh, seasonal look built to push them through the season. Despite shooting in the peak of an Abu Dhabi summer with the venue's air conditioning down, the team worked around the extreme heat, and the final frames do not show a minute of it.

LookFresh and seasonal; a distinct summer identity with no trace of the extreme shoot conditions.

CRMBZ
CRMBZ
CRMBZ
CRMBZ
Summer visual identity
Agency partnership
Delivered despite venue conditions

Yuki

Food truck concept, 7 branches · Visual Uplift

Yuki runs seven branches, all outdoor food-truck sites, so a 150-item range had to be covered with no studio to fall back on. They wanted a full revamp of their visual look, and we built one: a complete brand world shot outdoors where nothing in frame says location. Against the old visuals it lifted sales 15%.

LookA built brand world outdoors — nothing in frame says shot on location.

Yuki
Yuki
Yuki
Yuki
15% increase in sales
150 items covered
7 branches, outdoor concept

Memoria

Café · Visual Uplift

Memoria needed a full visual uplift for the brand, not a one-off refresh — and a small room that had to stop reading as small. We rebuilt the look around fresh, simple frames and natural light, and it lifted sales 15%.

LookFresh and simplistic; a small room that never reads small.

Memoria
Memoria
Memoria
Memoria
15% increase in sales
Full brand visual uplift
Small space, no compromise

Maki

Japanese, premium · Visual Uplift, two days

Maki is a premium Japanese brand, and every dish had to carry that before anyone read a price. We shot across two days on a dark palette and kept the styling deliberately simple, so the luxury comes from restraint rather than decoration.

LookDark, simple, luxurious; restraint as the premium signal.

Maki
Maki
Maki
2 shoot days
Dark premium palette
Full range

Shawaya Daaoun

Charcoal grilled chicken, Abu Dhabi · Visual Uplift for delivery

Shawaya’s delivery listing was underperforming on basic images, so we proposed rebuilding the whole range for the aggregator rather than for the wall. Sales rose 30%, and they have kept climbing since.

LookCharcoal and Khaleeji cues, built to work at thumbnail size.

Shawaya Daaoun
Shawaya Daaoun
Shawaya Daaoun
Shawaya Daaoun
30% increase in sales
Still growing since
Built for the aggregator

Min Diyarna

Cloud kitchen, Dubai · Visual Uplift for delivery

A cloud kitchen lives or dies inside an aggregator grid, where every competitor shoots the same food on the same white. We proposed green as the brand's signature and built the whole range on it, so the listing stops the scroll before the dish is even read.

LookSignature green, chosen to break the aggregator grid.

Min Diyarna
Min Diyarna
Min Diyarna
Min Diyarna
Full aggregator range
Signature colour proposed by us
Cloud kitchen, delivery-first

Voya

Bakery · Visual Uplift

Voya wanted a look that felt natural and sunlit without losing the premium read, and baked goods are unforgiving — colour and surface shift fast under lights. We covered the full range in a day with their team supporting the bakes, keeping every crust and crumb in the right tone. Sales rose 12% after the uplift.

LookNatural light and warmth; premium without gloss.

Voya
Voya
Voya
Voya
12% increase in sales
Full range in one day
Natural light throughout

Elva

Premium desserts · Visual Uplift

Thirty products, a large share of them sealed inside glass — the hardest thing to shoot cleanly, with reflections, double edges and colour shifts all arriving at once. We lit and styled the range so the product reads clearly through the glass while the packaging still looks premium.

LookClean product through glass, packaging kept premium.

Elva
Elva
Elva
Elva
30 products
Shot through glass packaging
Premium dessert range

Probiotico

Healthy juices · Visual Uplift for delivery

Probiotico sells a flavour the bottle cannot show, and a plain product shot leaves the customer guessing on an aggregator or a web store. We shot in the client's own space and built every frame around the ingredients beside the drink, so the flavour reads from the photograph alone.

LookFresh, cold and ingredient-forward; flavour legible at thumbnail size.

Bottle of blue Probiotico drink on a white ledge against a deep blue backdrop
Bottle of beetroot Probiotico juice beside a cut beetroot and a green apple, on blue
Bottle of green Probiotico juice with a celery stick at its base, on blue
Bottle of vanilla Probiotico drink with a vanilla pod leaning against it, on blue
Shot in client's own space
Ingredients in every frame
Built for aggregators + web store

Brylo

Sweets & ice cream, Al Ain · Six-month retainer

We took Brylo on as a small operation and started with a visual uplift, then stayed with them month to month for six months. By the end of it they were running two branches and two central kitchens with a team of more than fifty — and the content was a real part of that scale. When Brylo ran our content as ads, it returned 12x.

LookElevated brown and beige; premium, but warm enough for the local market.

Brylo
Brylo
Brylo
12 times ROI on ads with our content
6 months together
2 branches, 2 central kitchens

Heaven of Roses

Chocolate & flowers, Abu Dhabi · Branding + monthly content

We worked with Heaven of Roses on their season campaign, building the content strategy around the occasion rather than the product alone. Pushed as ads, our visuals returned 7x on their spend.

LookRich and occasion-led; the gift read before the product.

Dark green table of chocolate trays and gift boxes, a hand reaching for a truffle
Long box of dates and chocolates dressed with white roses, on dark green
Hand taking a chocolate from a glass cake stand inside an empty gilt frame, on dark green
Oval platter of chocolate rows on a dark green table between two candle holders
7 times ROI on our visuals
Season campaign
Content strategy ours

Yala Bucha

Kombucha, UAE · Summer season

For the summer season we stayed with the same thinking: show it as a cold soft drink, not a kombucha. Fresh and summery, built to get someone to try it once — which is all it takes, because after that they come back for it.

LookFresh and summery; a cold drink first, a kombucha second.

Yala Bucha
Yala Bucha
Yala Bucha
Summer season campaign
Built to win the first try
Positioned as a soft drink

Kaaki wo Nos

Lebanese, Al Ain & Abu Dhabi · Monthly content

A Lebanese brand with branches across Al Ain and Abu Dhabi that needed one visual language covering all of them, not a different look per location. We shot across the branches over six months and built a modern, colourful read of Lebanese food — engagement rose more than 20%, and every item we put behind a campaign moved.

LookColourful, fresh and young; modern Lebanese, held together by their brand blue.

Hands holding up a stuffed kaak flatbread against a bright blue sky
Overhead mezze spread of hummus, pickles, dips and a basket of breads, hands reaching in
Overhead of a round table laid with mezze, grills and bread on a patterned tiled floor
Two men in black shirts pouring drinks over a spread of mezze on an outdoor table
+20% social engagement
6 months together
Multi-branch, 2 emirates

Feno

Sandwiches & fast food, Abu Dhabi · Monthly content + ads

Feno arrived as a sandwich brand with the product to compete, but none of the visual authority to back it. We shot it to the standard of a global QSR—hard reds and oranges—and ran the ads behind it. Three months later, their aggregator orders grew by 100%, driving a 150% increase in overall daily sales.

LookGlobal QSR standard in hard red and orange.

Feno
Feno
Feno
+100% aggregator sales
+150% overall sales
3 months to achieve

Vanilla

Desserts · Monthly content

Vanilla arrived after a run of agencies that never quite got the brand — the product was feminine and playful, the visuals kept coming back generic. Three months of content, from summer beach sets to full indoor production days, built the pink they had been trying to describe: youthful, but elevated enough to read as premium.

LookFeminine pink, kept elevated rather than sweet.

Vanilla
Vanilla
Vanilla
Vanilla
3 month retainer
Beach + indoor shoot days
Brand direction defined

Cro

Café, Al Ain · Monthly content

Cro were stuck with their previous agency and the videos coming out of it were not positioning them as a premium brand. We came in with a seasonal uplift that transformed the account and gave them the push they needed into their next phase.

LookPremium and considered; the product finally shot like it costs what it costs.

Cro
Cro
Account transformed
Repositioned as premium
Launched their next phase

Julith

Café, Dubai · Pre-opening campaign + monthly content

Julith opened into a Dubai coffee market where good content is the baseline, so the brief was to set a new standard for it rather than match it. We started before the doors opened with a teaser campaign, then carried the launch on content and ads — the hype filled the room through the whole opening period and took the following from 10k in month one to 20k in month two.

LookA new standard for coffee content in Dubai.

Julith
Julith
10k → 20k followers, months 1–2
Full house through the opening period
Teaser → launch campaign