Case studies

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Talabat

Delivery platform · Campaigns, three years

Three years of seasonal campaigns for the region's largest delivery platform — Ramadan, World Cup, Christmas, Halloween and an Arabic food campaign, each landing in a different cultural register. The largest covered their topperforming vendors, with the frames running on billboards across seven cities in the UAE.

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

Smiling woman in a straw hat holding a Talabat box above bowls of salad and iced drinks
Three scenes side by side of people eating a Talabat order at home, lit by lanterns and candles
Man in an orange shirt eating from a takeaway bowl in front of a wall of glowing vintage televisions
Long family table laid with Emirati dishes and juice, guests in kanduras and abayas seated along it
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 22 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.

Chicken and potato stew in tomato sauce with a green chilli and dried lime on a rustic plate
Overhead of spiced rice with a bowl of ghee, dates and sesame seeds beside a linen cloth on marble
Overhead spread of whole fried fish on saffron rice, crab, white rice and grilled meat on deep red
Saffron threads falling onto a bowl of minced meat and toasted vermicelli
75 recipes, 150 images
22 shoot days, 5 chefs
First documentation of its kind

Well Health

Healthy food, Riyadh · Campaign + six-month retainer

Well Health had the product but read like every other healthy brand: clinical, classic, easy to scroll past. We moved the full team and kit to Riyadh and built the campaign on fresh colour and active, sport-adjacent lifestyle frames, so healthy eating looked like something you would choose rather than something you would endure.

LookFresh saturated colour and movement; healthy without the clinical cliché.

Man on a green beanbag on an outdoor court opening a Well Health box with a baguette inside
Three frames side by side: Well Health packaging, a woman biting into a sandwich, and a salmon salad bowl
Three frames side by side: Well Health boxes, a woman preparing food in a kitchen, and a salmon salad bowl
Man in a kandura and glasses in profile, a subtitle line across the lower frame
Full crew + kit to Riyadh
Cross-border production, UAE → KSA
6 month retainer, content + ads

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.

Round cake topped with nuts on a lace tablecloth beside wooden serving boards and a brass lantern
Woman in a yellow hijab in profile, standing at an open fridge
Ramadan table with a pull-apart bread ring and lanterns, a family seated behind it
Pistachio-topped tart on a lace cloth beside a brass lantern, Ramadan lettering in the corner
+30% sales
+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 took 10k views on day one and lifted engagement on their profile by over 50%.

Look1960s English vintage, warm palette, strict period discipline.

Man in a flat cap at the wheel of a classic car, over the words House of Brylo
Woman in a car applying lipstick, framed as a widescreen film still
Black and white poster of a woman applying lipstick in a car mirror, under the Brylo wordmark
Open boot of a vintage car filled with Brylo takeaway coffee cups
10k views, day one
+50% profile engagement
Concept to film, all in-house

Tweeq

Restaurant & café, KSA · 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.

Man in a bisht and ghutra holding a takeaway cup in front of a carpeted majlis wall
Man in Saudi dress seated at a low table with a chess set, against a wall of green grass
Chrome espresso machine group heads close up against a red-lit cafe interior
Backgammon board with counters, the Tweeq wordmark over it marked soon
Opening campaign film
Ideation to post, end to end
Cast, wardrobe and strategy in-house

Al Baik

QSR · Campaign with Talabat

Al Baik had never been shot modern — decades of traditional visuals and no reference for anything else. For their campaign with Talabat we wrote our own direction and shot the brand fresh, colourful and young, without losing the thing people already recognise.

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

Fried chicken fillets, nuggets and crisps on Al Baik paper with dips, on orange
Al Baik chicken submarine with fries and a drink on orange, beside a cut-out Talabat mark
Crispy chicken and cheese burger open in its Al Baik box, fries and crisps behind it
Overhead Al Baik meal of nuggets, fries, a burger, coleslaw and a drink on orange
First modern direction for the brand
Campaign with Talabat
Direction written from zero

Pizza Hut

QSR · Cricket World Cup campaign

The brief was straightforward product photography on white for the Cricket World Cup push. We delivered it and proposed one frame beyond the scope — a cricket pitch built on set with our stylist — which the client took and kept using long after the campaign closed.

LookClean product on white, plus one built environment the brief never asked for.

Three pizzas on wooden paddles laid out on a cricket pitch with a Pepsi can and a cricket ball
Pizzas on a grass pitch surrounded by a cricket helmet, bat, ball and dips
Cricket helmet, Pepsi bottle and three pizzas arranged on a marked grass pitch
A single pan pizza on a wooden paddle on the crease line of a cricket pitch
Product + social campaign
On-set food stylist
Set-built cricket pitch

Al Safi

Dairy, KSA · Recipe photography + video

Eighteen recipes, photographed and filmed, on a timeline with no room for a slow day. The direction was dark and vintage — food that looks like it came from a home kitchen, not a studio — and the planning is what made eighteen possible.

LookDark, vintage, home-kitchen.

Overhead recipe flat lay of Al Safi cream, grated cheese, spinach and tomatoes around a recipe card
18 recipes
Photo + video
Compressed schedule

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.

Overhead of cream cheese canapes with herbs on an oval plate, a TTC pack beside them
Overhead of a chicken and feta salad on a wooden table with a red striped runner
Pan of creamy pasta on wood, labelled with its ingredients: cherry tomatoes, salt and pepper
Overhead of grilled halloumi and watermelon salad, the grilling instruction across the frame
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.

Round box of moulded chocolates arranged in a spiral on a cream backdrop
Chocolate sauce pouring into a cup of Adore chocolates on stacked plinths, a strawberry beside it
Close-up grid of chocolate squares studded with whole hazelnuts
Glossy red chocolate spheres around a single Adore-stamped disc
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 50% up on the previous winter, which had run without us.

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

Beef patties searing over open flames on a grill
Chef in whites plating a dish on a steel counter beside a White Burger service window
Tongs turning sausages on a charcoal grill under string lights
Vacuum-packed steak held up in front of a rack of brioche buns
+50% 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 the owner's house 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 house.

Hand reaching for a burger on a metal tray, a vintage camera beside it on a pale table
Hands taking fries from a plate of sliders and fries on a Henry tablecloth
Woman in a fur coat eating a burger and fries at a set table with a film camera
Cream puff on a Henry plate beside an open pastry box and a strip of photographs
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.

Woman lifting the lid of a clay storage jar beside sacks stamped with the Almair mark
Man in a kandura seated on a carpet packing Almair coffee sacks into a case
Man in a kandura pouring coffee from a brass dallah on a majlis carpet
Brass mortar and pestle with ground coffee on a woven tray beside stamped sacks
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
Two people toasting drinks over a spread of Luv Chix chicken and fries, in pink light
Loaded chicken cup with a cocktail parasol, in magenta smoke
Two people sharing fried chicken sandwiches and hot wings on a pink tray
Launch campaign
Casting sourced to brand direction
Supplier network for talent

CRMBZ

Burgers, Abu Dhabi · Seasonal campaign, via agency

Brought in through an agency to give the brand a fresh seasonal look. We shot through an Abu Dhabi summer with the venue's air conditioning down — the team worked around it, and the frames do not show a minute of it.

LookSeasonal and fresh, shot in conditions that were neither.

Agency partnership
Seasonal campaign
Delivered despite venue conditions

Yuki

Food truck concept, 7 branches · Menu photography

Yuki runs seven branches, all outdoor food-truck sites, which meant a 150-item menu had to be shot outdoors with no studio to fall back on. We built a set theme that reads as the brand rather than as an outdoor location, and held the same standard across all 150 items.

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

150 menu items
7 branches, outdoor concept
One standard across the full menu

Memoria

Café · Menu photography

The client picked their smallest branch for the shoot, leaving barely enough room to set up the equipment. We worked within it and delivered 40 items in a single day — clean, fresh and simple enough that the constraint never shows.

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

40 items
One shoot day
Smallest branch as location

Maki

Japanese, premium · Menu photography, two days

Maki is a premium Japanese brand, and the menu 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.

Sushi salad in a cracked black stone bowl, dry ice spilling over the slate beneath
Round plate of thinly sliced fish with edible flowers and dots of sauce on dark stone
Green cocktail on a stone slab in drifting dry-ice smoke
Seared fish on a black rock plate with a dipping sauce, surrounded by smoke
2 shoot days
Dark premium palette
Full menu

Shawaya Daaoun

Charcoal grilled chicken, Abu Dhabi · Talabat menu shoot

Shawaya's Talabat listing was underperforming on basic images, so we proposed a full menu reshoot built for the aggregator rather than for the wall. We shot the food with Khaleeji cultural cues carried through the frames, and sales rose more than 50% once it went live.

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

Roast chicken on saffron rice on a patterned platter, beside clay water jugs and palm shadow
Grilled chicken on spiced rice on a yellow patterned platter with sauces and clay cups
Roast chicken on white rice in a blue-rimmed bowl with clay jugs and palm fronds
Two platters of roast chicken, one on rice and one in broth, on an ochre table with clay cups
+50% sales increase
Full menu reshoot
Built for aggregator listings

Min Diyarna

Cloud kitchen, Dubai · Aggregator menu photography

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 shot the whole menu on it, so the listing stops the scroll before the dish is even read.

LookSignature green, chosen to break the aggregator grid.

Roast chicken quarter on herbed rice on a scalloped plate with lemon and yoghurt
Lamb shank with rice, salad and yoghurt on scalloped stoneware
Fattoush with feta and tomatoes in a stone bowl, olive oil and cherry tomatoes beside it
Hummus topped with minced meat and pine nuts, wrapped bread and an olive sprig on green
Full aggregator menu
Signature colour proposed by us
Cloud kitchen, delivery-first

Voya

Bakery · Menu photography

Voya wanted a menu that felt natural and sunlit without losing the premium read, and baked goods are unforgiving — colour and surface shift fast under lights. We shot the full menu in a day with their team supporting the bakes, keeping every crust and crumb in the right tone.

LookNatural light and warmth; premium without gloss.

Butter croissant on Voya paper on cream marble, in hard sunlight
Cinnamon and pecan pastry twist on Voya paper on cream marble
Glazed pain au chocolat on Voya paper on cream marble
Seeded sourdough round scored with a cross, on Voya paper on cream marble
Full menu in one day
Natural sunlight direction
Colour-critical bakes

Elva

Premium desserts · Product & menu photography

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.

Caramel-topped loaf cake on a pink tray against pink curtains, a navy ribbon trailing
Tray of assorted canapes and mini pastries on a pink set with a navy ribbon
Three-tier Elva stand of petits fours and mini cakes with a cup of tea, on pink
Box of five glazed eclairs in different colours on a pink set with a navy ribbon
30 products
Shot through glass packaging
Premium dessert range

Probiotico

Healthy juices · Menu photography

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 · Monthly content

Brylo came to us as a home business with a feed that looked like one: a real product sitting behind basic phone visuals, with no way to be taken seriously as a brand. We opened with a single Ramadan shoot backed by ads that delivered their best sales month to date, then moved into a six-month retainer where every month gets its own direction, built around the season and the product rather than repeating the last one.

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

Eid collection set: a dessert coupe on a draped silk plinth beside two bottles under a lamp
Spatula folding cream through crushed blackberries and raspberries
Two open boxes of pistachio and berry bites on a brown set with a vase of dried flowers
Tray of berry cheesecake squares on grass beside a bottle of Brylo
6 month retainer
Record sales month, first campaign
1 → 2 kitchens, Al Ain → Abu Dhabi

Heaven of Roses

Chocolate & flowers, Abu Dhabi · Branding + monthly content

Heaven of Roses came to us before it had a visual identity, so we built the branding first and then carried it into six months of monthly content, content strategy and paid ads. Holding the strategy, the shoot and the media in one place is what got them to profitability three months into their first year.

LookDark green luxury, silk and sheen: chocolate that reads expensive before it is tasted.

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
Profitable in 3 months, year one
6 month retainer
Branding + content + ads

Kombucha brand

Canned drinks, Abu Dhabi · Monthly content

A canned kombucha brand that needed a full year of content to actually look like a year, not twelve versions of the same shoot. One shoot a month, each in its own world — a beach set in summer, a yacht in spring, a warm indoor build in winter — so the feed moves with the season instead of repeating itself.

LookCold, fresh, saturated colour; the fruit and the condensation do the selling.

Bottle of lime and mint kombucha on a stone fountain surrounded by tropical leaves
Hand stirring a glass of kombucha over ice on a marble table, limes and the bottle beside it
Can of berry kombucha lying on a bed of raspberries and blackberries
Bottle of kombucha and two filled glasses on a wooden deck at sunset by the water
6 month retainer
6 shoots, 6 distinct directions
3 seasons covered

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

Fino

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

Fino was turning over around AED 1,000 a day and looked it: a sandwich brand with the product to compete and 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 the daily average sat at AED 2,500 across Talabat and direct orders.

LookGlobal QSR standard in hard red and orange.

Two long submarine sandwiches on Fino paper on a wooden bench, with salads and a bottle
Fried chicken burgers and onion rings in an open Fino box on a red table
Close-up of a fried chicken sandwich with melted cheese and frilled lettuce
Hands holding a fried chicken sub over a table of Fino packaging and a bottle
AED 1,000 → 2,500 daily average
+150% in 3 months
Talabat + direct orders

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 menu 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.

Overhead of a mango tart on a pink striped beach towel with sunglasses and berries
Overhead of fruit tarts, lemons and a coconut on a pink beach towel, hands arranging them
Overhead of fruit tarts and lemons on a pink beach towel, hands setting down a straw bag
Tray of strawberry and raspberry tiramisu topped with basil, on a pink cloth
3 month retainer
Beach + indoor menu days
Brand direction defined

Cro

Café, Al Ain · Monthly content

Cro knew it was being read as cheaper than it was, stuck with an agency producing content that undercut the room. We rebuilt the feed around white, light and simplicity — they archived every old post and relaunched on the new work, and engagement came back 50% higher.

LookWhite and bright, simplicity as the proof of quality.

Overhead cafe table with two pastries, a latte, sunglasses and a phone on white
Baker in a Cro apron rolling dough on a floured steel bench
Stack of red Cro bakery boxes
Grid of croissants filling the frame with the word Croissant across them
+50% engagement
Full feed relaunch
Repositioned as premium

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.

Two open sandwiches with poached egg and greens on a white plate on a steel counter
Close-up of a bearded man's mouth and chin in profile against blue
Woman in a blue apron on the stairs of a pale, arched cafe interior
Diners at a long window table taking photographs, city light behind them
10k → 20k followers, months 1–2
Full house through the opening period
Teaser → launch campaign