Abdulla Ali
Creative director in Bahrain, working across brand, packaging, image and digital.
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Introduction
An independent practice, working across brand, image and screen.
I am Abdulla Ali, a creative director based in Manama. I work with founders and marketing teams on the parts of a brand people actually meet — the name, the mark, the packaging, the photography, and the site it all arrives on.
The practice is deliberately small. You work with the person doing the work, and most decisions get made in one conversation rather than three.
Capabilities
What I do
Three areas that feed one another. Most projects draw on more than one.
Positioning, naming and the visual system that carries them — built to hold together in Arabic and English, in print and on screen.
- Brand strategy
- Visual identity
- Arabic & Latin logotypes
- Packaging
- Guidelines
Art direction for campaigns and catalogues, photography suited to the product, and motion cut for the places it will actually be seen.
- Art direction
- Photography
- Campaigns
- Motion design
- Short-form video
Websites and interfaces designed and built together, so how a thing behaves is decided alongside how it looks.
- Websites
- Interfaces
- Interactive experiences
- Front-end build
Brand & Identity
Hayrat Alsarraj Jewelry
Process — visual exploration
Ideas made visible
Every project starts the same way: work out what the thing actually is, then look for the form that says it plainly. Strategy first, then sketches, then the many versions nobody ever sees.
The range is deliberate — type, image, packaging and motion inform one another, and the tools for each brief are chosen for what it needs rather than for what is current.
How it runs
Direct work from first conversation to delivery. You speak to the person doing it.
Digital design and build
Digital
Websites and interfaces where the design and the build are decided together, so what gets approved is what actually ships — and the way it behaves is part of the design, not an afterthought.
- Websites
- Interfaces
- Interactive experiences
- Front-end build
Studio
WSM® Creative Studio
WSM® is the studio side of the practice. Larger briefs run through it, with the same direction and a wider set of hands.