We decide where growth comes from.
Das Design is a growth company in Dubai. Since 2012 we have set the strategy, built the brand and run the content for companies across the Gulf, in Arabic, English and French.
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Fourteen years in the market teaches you what a campaign cannot fix. We are hired to move a number, and the strategy, the content and the brand all report to it.
Most of what agencies sell is output. We sell the decision that comes before it: which audience, which position, which offer, which channel, and what we expect it to return. Everything downstream is delivery.
By the numbers2012 to today
Years running growth for brands.
Verticals we know properly: automotive, media, iGaming, finance, hospitality and jewellery.
Social platforms we run daily, not occasionally.
Languages written natively: French, English and Arabic.
What growth looks likeIllustrative
Campaigns spike. Systems compound.
A campaign buys you a fortnight of attention and then hands the ground back. An always on system keeps the audience, keeps the data and gets cheaper every quarter because you are no longer renting reach you already earned.
Always on systemStrategy, content and paid running together, reviewed weekly and compounding.
Campaign burstsThree good weeks a year, then back to where you started.
Selected workFive of them
04Founder brand
Marwan Kai
A chief executive with a point of view and no time to publish it. We write and produce his LinkedIn and Instagram presence so that it still sounds like him and not like a marketing department.
CapabilitiesNine of them
Everything a brand needs to grow, under one roof
01
Growth strategy
Where the growth comes from, answered before anyone opens a design file. Market and competitor analysis, positioning, offer and channel strategy, and a plan with numbers attached.
- Positioning
- Competitor analysis
- Offer strategy
- Growth planning
02
Social media strategy
Platform by platform, a reason to exist on each one. Audience, pillars, formats, posting cadence and the measurement that tells you which of them is earning its place.
- Channel strategy
- Content pillars
- Cadence
- Community
03
Content production
The engine room. Daily and weekly output at the volume growth actually needs, produced in three languages and shipped on schedule for years at a time.
- Editorial
- Social content
- Copywriting
- Localisation
04
Video and film
Short form built for the feed and long form built to last. Concept, shoot, edit, motion graphics, subtitles in all three languages, delivered in every aspect ratio you need.
- Short form
- Series
- Motion graphics
- Post production
05
Photography
Product, lifestyle, automotive and events, shot in studio or on location, art directed so every frame still looks like the brand three years from now.
- Studio
- On location
- Product
- Automotive
06
Brand design
Identity and design systems built to carry the strategy rather than decorate it. Logo, type, colour, art direction and the rules that keep it consistent at scale.
- Identity
- Design systems
- Art direction
- Guidelines
07
Events and activations
Launches, activations and live coverage. We plan the moment, produce it, and cover it in real time so the audience that was not in the room still feels like it was.
- Launches
- Activations
- Live coverage
- Same day edits
08
Paid and performance
Media that answers to the plan. Creative built for each platform, tested before scale, and read against the number we agreed at the start rather than a vanity metric.
- Paid social
- Search
- Creative testing
- Reporting
09
AI marketing
We model the market, test messaging and creative before the spend, and read results in days rather than quarters. It sits in the workflow, which is the only place it earns anything.
- Market modelling
- Message testing
- Automation
- Analysis
The studioProduction, events, brand
We do not brief this out. We make it.
Production
Shot, cut and published the same week
A full in house production line: concept, shoot, edit, grade, motion graphics, subtitles and delivery in every ratio a platform asks for. Because it is in house, a launch does not wait three weeks for an external edit.
- Studio and on location shoots
- Short form and vertical video
- Series and long form
- Motion graphics and titles
- Arabic and English voiceover
- Subtitling and localisation
- Product and lifestyle photography
- Same day social edits
Recent workClick to play
Events and activations
The room is the content
Launches, test drives, tournaments, showroom openings and brand activations. We plan the moment so it is worth attending, then cover it live so the people who were not there still see it the same day.
- Launch events and openings
- Brand activations
- Live social coverage
- Same day highlight edits
- Creator and press programmes
- Photo and video crews
- Stage and set design direction
- Post event content packages
Branding
Identity that survives contact with the feed
A brand is not a logo, it is a set of decisions that stay consistent across a thousand posts. We build the identity and the system around it, then we are the ones running it, which is why it stays intact.
- Naming and positioning
- Logo and identity design
- Type and colour systems
- Social templates and grids
- Packaging and print
- Brand guidelines
- Art direction
- Rollout across channels
Mark
Palette
Type
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System
Grid, spacing, motion and tone, written down so anyone can hold the line.
MethodHow the work runs
AI is in the workflow, not the pitch
1
Model the market
We read a category, its competitors and its audience at a depth that used to take a research team a month, then argue with the result until it holds.
2
Test before you spend
Positioning, hooks and creative are tested against the real audience picture first, so the budget goes to the version that already won.
3
Read results fast
Performance feeds back into the strategy every week. Whatever works gets more. Whatever does not gets cut without a debate.
ContactDubai, UAE
Tell us what you are trying to grow.
info@dasdesignstudio.comSend the problem in a paragraph. You get a point of view back, not a proposal template.
WhatsApp, +971 58 512 1947 LinkedIn Instagram Dubai, United Arab Emirates
One position, nine front doors
Most brands run nine accounts and nine different personalities. We set the position once, then translate it into what each platform actually rewards. The strategy is the centre. The platforms are delivery, and each one gets a job, a format, a cadence and a number.
OwnedThe channels you control, published daily, where the audience compounds.
Bought and searchedPaid social and search, pointed at the same position, tested before scale.
EarnedEvents, press, creators and newsletters, where other people carry your message.
Authority
The category knowledge that proves you are worth following. Explainers, comparisons, opinion.
Desire
The work that makes people want it. Product, craft, film, photography, the thing itself looking good.
Community
Replies, questions, user content and the reasons people come back to the comments.
Conversion
Offers, launches and proof, placed where an audience that already trusts you can act.