This is a working document, not a static one. It opens with a letter, settles into twelve selected projects and a thirty three brief archive, and closes with the practical detail you'd usually have to email to ask for.
The campaign work came through Little Black Book, a Nykaa company, in 2024. A four month stretch handling end to end design for some of the loudest premium names in their categories. The longer running piece sits inside the Silver Crown Group in Dubai, where I lead identity across six subsidiaries. Six brands, one studio. Both are below.
I take on two mandates at a time. I write back to everyone who writes to me.











The brief, restated honestly: don't let it look like one person made all of these.
A construction firm bidding on government work cannot share visual DNA with a tuned car shop. Each needed real, defensible difference, built fast, with one pair of hands.
The group is set up as a family rather than a chain. The parent brand carries the connective grammar: type discipline, document architecture, the way numbers are set, the way the company is named at the bottom of a page. The subsidiaries are free to differ on everything else. Color, mood, photographic direction, even the paper they print on.






Running six brands solo only works if the inside is more boring than the outside: one master Figma library, one set of grid tokens, six color stacks, six type pairings, and a naming convention that stops files leaking across brands. The calendar below is what that machine ships in a month.


SPAI was launching into the most overcrowded room in B2B software, where every competitor reaches for cool blues, hexagonal nodes, and the vague suggestion of a brain. SPAI kept the category’s energy and moved its temperature: violet instead of blue, a full stop at the end of the name, and a voice built to feel less like a robot and more like the best employee you ever hired. The softness lives in the writing; the mark stays unapologetically technical.

Every project starts with a single paragraph, not a deck. For SPAI it was written in week two, pinned to the studio wall for the next ten, and became the test every line of copy, every typeface, every UI decision had to pass. It is below, as adopted.
SPAI is customer support that doesn't feel automated. It's built for the moment a business is too small for a real support team and too big to keep answering at midnight. It writes like the best employee that company ever had, specific, calm, slightly amused, and it gets out of the way the second a customer wants a human. It is not a chatbot. It is the answer arriving before the customer thought to ask twice.
The category defaults to "-ly" suffixes, acronyms, and a nod toward the brain. The brief refused all three, and the chosen route arrived already wearing the wordmark it shipped with.



Rounded geometric letterforms running a violet gradient, closed by a full stop. The name refuses to perform; the period refuses to apologize.
One display serif for warmth, one neutral sans for clarity, one mono for data and product UI. Three voices, never four.
Violet against a blue category. The gradient runs deep violet to indigo; everything else stays ink and white so the mark owns the color.
Half disc system. Every state of an AI conversation as a different fraction of light. Twelve icons, one geometric idea.
Specific, low key, slightly amused. The brand never raises its voice.
Slow fades, never bouncing. Type appears like it's being thought, not typed.






Six brands. One pair of hands.Standing record, Silver Crown Group, since Q1 2025
And zero outside
agency hours.
I led product design strategy through a six month sprint: every deadline met across overlapping print and digital tracks, and brand standards that kept the whole building speaking one language. Clinical adjacent products give design decisions a longer tail, so layouts went through compliance review before prototypes.
Before I ran six brands at once, I ran one. Mine. Nerdsey produced Reels and Shorts, partnered with creators, and grew organically on a strict data driven loop.
The lesson has been useful ever since. A brand’s voice gets tested every day, in the comments. Brand books get opened once a year. The studio is still open as a low frequency archive, and it is where the email on the front of this document comes from.

Kathak is the Indian classical dance of storytelling through rhythm. Its grammar is built on the bol, spoken syllables that map to footwork. The most used phrase in the form is the tihai: a short phrase repeated three times that resolves on the first beat of the next cycle.
Brand systems work the same way. A campaign is a phrase: a hero, a follow up, a payoff landing on the same beat. It is what makes a six brand portfolio possible. Each brand is its own phrase, and the master backbone is the tabla they all step to.
I came to design through the customer facing side of the desk, before I ever opened Illustrator. It shows: in this practice, what a brand says gets decided before how it looks. The rest of the story is the work above, so this page keeps to the person.
I work with companies that take their position seriously. A tuned car shop, a fire safety contractor, a luxury spirits brand. The through line is not the category, it is the seriousness. I prefer projects that need both halves of the practice: the strategy paragraph at the top, and the wordmark, type, print, launch motion, and social cadence underneath.
If we work together, expect a lot of writing in the first two weeks, a lot of layout in the next ten, and a quarterly check in after that, because brand books left alone age badly.
Two weeks of conversations: founders, customers, and people who left. I read everything that already exists.
Output. Written audit, interview notes, an honest description of the present brand.
One document, one paragraph at the top: where the brand sits, what it stands against, what it refuses to say. Strategy locks here, before any wordmark gets sketched.
Output. Positioning paragraph, naming territory, voice principles.
Two distinct routes, both presented inside real applications: a business card, a homepage, an Instagram grid, a launch poster. Never floating on white. Refine the chosen one over two rounds.
Output. Wordmark, type system, color, photographic direction.
Build the pieces the team will use forever: grid, components, templates, a master Figma library, a brand book, and an asset archive your team can still navigate two months later.
Output. Figma library, brand book, asset archive.
Launch design support, then a quarterly check in for the next year to keep the system honest as the brand grows. Most of my Silver Crown work lives in this phase.
Output. Launch kit, quarterly review notes, retainer if it makes sense.
A two week intensive to find the strategic paragraph the brand has been missing.
End to end visual identity, built from strategy down to the last template.
For brands that have launched and need the system kept honest as they grow.
If you've read this far, your brand has a problem worth solving, or a system that needs keeping. Either one is the right reason to write.