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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
3years together
6campaigns
7cities 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.
75recipes, 150 images
20shoot 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.
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.
+5,000followers
+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.
+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.
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.
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.
18recipes
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.
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.
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.
+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.
3campaigns
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
15%increase in sales
150items covered
7branches, 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.
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.
2shoot 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.
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.
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.
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.
30products
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.
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.
12times ROI on ads with our content
6months together
2branches, 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.
7times 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.
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.
+20%social engagement
6months 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.
+100%aggregator sales
+150%overall sales
3months 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.
3month 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.
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.
10k → 20kfollowers, months 1–2
Full house through the opening period
Teaser → launch campaign
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