Brand systems · Erbil · Baghdad · MENA

Brands worth remembering.

Strategy, identity, and the systems that hold them together, for ambitious companies in Iraq and across the region. Designed in Arabic, Kurdish, and English from the same source file.

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PomeloEST. 2020
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120+Brand systems
EN/AR/KUTrilingual
8-12wStrategy + identity
Open the book

Brands aren't decoration. They compound.

Brand equity is the single most defensible asset most Iraqi companies are leaving on the table. A coherent identity makes every dirham of paid spend work harder, lifts organic CTRs, and pre-qualifies leads before they ever speak to sales.

The brands we build don't just look distinctive in a deck, they hold up across an Arabic billboard, a Kurdish radio ad, a Snapchat lens, and an export catalogue. One system. Three scripts. Years of compounding recognition.

Brand recall · 12-month cohort
With identity system Generic competitor
80% 60% 40% 20% M1 M3 M6 M9 M12
Identity launch
Campaign 1
Refresh + apps

Six spreads. One brand book.

Every brand we build ships with the same systems, strategy, identity, colour, type, voice, and applications. Designed together so the third touchpoint feels like the first.

Brand strategy.

Before the identity, the north star. Audience, positioning, narrative, and the strategic platform every creative decision answers to.

We interview your leadership and your customers, audit the category, and write a short, honest strategy document. It runs about ten pages, and every page is something the team can quote in a meeting.

Audience Positioning Narrative
PG 12
North Now Next Why The brief.
PG 13

Logo & visual identity.

A primary mark, a wordmark, a monogram, a system of marks. Designed once, drawn for every surface it will live on.

We sketch in all three scripts side by side from day one, Arabic, Kurdish, English. The construction grid, optical balance, and clear-space rules all hold across all three. No retrofitting after the English version is signed off.

Primary mark Wordmark Monogram
PG 18
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PG 19

Colour system.

A primary palette that holds the brand together, plus a secondary system that gives every campaign and product line room to breathe.

HEX, RGB, CMYK, Pantone, and accessibility ratios for every pairing. The same swatches checked for WCAG AA against backgrounds your team will actually use, not just white.

Primary Secondary Accessibility
PG 24
Primary#FF9201
Primary#00B1E1
Neutral#1A1A1F
Paper#F4EDE1
Acc 01#FFD47A
Acc 02#5CD6C7
Acc 03#A89CD6
Ground#F5F3EE
PG 25

Type system.

A display family, a workhorse text family, and an Arabic counterpart matched in proportion and tone. One specimen sheet your whole org can reference.

We choose pairings that share x-height, weight scale, and personality, so an Arabic headline next to an English caption looks intentional, not stitched together. The kit ships with a token system for your engineering team.

Display Text Arabic counterpart
PG 30
Display Serif Playfair / Tajawal The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. الثعلب البنّي السريع يقفز فوق الكلب الكسول. 32 / 48 / 64 PT
Workhorse Sans Montserrat / Cairo UI, body, and microcopy. Built for screen and print. كتب الواجهة والنصوص الأساسية. 11 / 14 / 18 PT
PG 31

Voice &verbal identity.

How the brand sounds, at scale, under pressure, across languages. Tone principles, dos and don'ts, and a verbal style sheet that works in Arabic and English.

We give the team contrast pairs ("Direct, not blunt." "Warm, not familiar.") because edge cases are where voice actually gets tested. Includes a naming framework if you need product names, sub-brands, or a tagline that survives translation.

Tone principles Naming Tagline
PG 36
DirectnotBlunt
WarmnotFamiliar
ConsiderednotSlow
ConfidentnotBoastful
ModernnotTrendy
PG 37

Touchpoints &applications.

Where the brand actually lives. Packaging, business systems, social templates, ad creative, presentations, signage, the launch website.

Designed for the surfaces your audience meets you on first, not the surfaces that look good in an Awwwards entry. We hand over working templates in Figma, the deck system in Keynote and PowerPoint, and a guidelines document anyone can open.

Packaging Social templates Launch site
PG 42
Webwww / mobile
SocialReels · stories
PackagingRetail · DTC
PrintOOH · collateral
PG 43

From strategy to rollout.

Four phases, fixed-scope, weekly reviews. Identity decisions are reviewed at every gate, no surprise reveals at the end.

01

Audit & Discover

Stakeholder interviews, customer research, category audit, current brand teardown. Where you are, where you want to go.

02

Strategy

Positioning, narrative, brand platform, naming if needed. The short, honest document every creative decision answers to.

03

Identity

Logo, type, colour, voice. Two directions developed, one chosen, refined across Arabic, Kurdish, and English in parallel.

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Rollout

Guidelines document, applications, launch site, packaging, templates. Plus a handover session so the brand survives after launch.

The fine print, indexed.

What founders, marketing directors, and product leads actually ask before they sign off the SOW.

ATimeline
A full strategy-and-identity project typically runs 8–12 weeks. A lighter identity refresh on top of existing strategy is 4–6 weeks. Naming projects add 2–3 weeks depending on trademark complexity.
BBudget
Identity-only projects start around $6,000. Full strategy plus identity plus guidelines typically lands in the $15,000–$45,000 range. Rebrands of established companies with packaging and rollout sit higher. We quote fixed scope, not hourly.
CLanguage
Yes, and it changes the brief. Type pairing, logo construction, layout direction, and even colour decisions are tested in all three scripts during design, not retrofitted after the English version is signed off.
DTrigger
When your audience, products, or competitive set have moved but the brand hasn't. Or when the existing identity was built in a hurry and is now actively limiting growth. If the only reason is "we're bored of it," we'll tell you.
EDeliverables
Source files, exported assets in every format you'll realistically use, a written brand guidelines document, templates for common applications, and a handover session with your internal team so the brand survives after launch.

Build a brand worth signing off on.

Send us the gist, a sentence on what you're building and where it's going. We'll come back with a written approach, a fixed scope, and a budget.

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