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Selected Work

A compartmentalized index of recent projects — each cell measured to honor its proportion, each illustration drawn by hand to honor its essence.

2025 brand_system

Salt & Cipher

A maritime cryptography brand built on tile geometries derived from celestial longitude.

2025 identity

Portolan&Co.

Wayfinding for a Lisbon-based shipping cooperative; the rose became their logogram.

2024 editorial

Levant Lines

A quarterly journal redesign weaving Ottoman calligraphic flourishes into modern grid logic.

2024 spatial

Tariq Tile Co.

An identity for an artisan tilemaker; their tessellations now appear in 14 cities.

2024 data_viz

Almanac.04

Nautical-chart data visualizations for a climate research consortium's annual report.

2024 flagship case_study

Mediterraneo / 1492

A year-long brand archaeology project tracing a hospitality group's lineage through three coastlines and seven dialects of ornament.

2023 web

Maison Khedive

Digital flagship for a rare-perfume atelier; we replaced their photography with hand-drawn olfactory diagrams.

2023 type

Tughra Variable

A custom variable typeface project: monospace skeletons that bloom into calligraphic flourishes at higher weights.

The Crossroads

// where cultures converge

Every great design begins with an unresolvable tension.

We don’t eliminate the dilemma we give it form.

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