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Ritu. Visual Designer × Brand Strategist, Dubai
Open · two slots, Q3 2026
Ritu Sharma. Practice volume one. Dubai, 2026.
A monograph of practice
Volume one. Selected work,
2020 to today.
Compiled in
Dubai, UAE
Edition
№ 037 · July, 2026

Ritu
Sharma

A visual designer & brand strategist whose work has
shipped for LG, JW Marriott, Don Julio, Teacher’s,
and thirty three more names across the globe.
Premium work for
LG. JW Marriott.
Don Julio. Teacher’s.
Currently
Six brands in parallel,
Silver Crown Group, Dubai
Disciplines
Identity, strategy, type,
print, campaign, voice.
Status
Open for select work,
Q3 2026
In a hurry? The work · Engagements · Write
01 / Contents

What's in here.

A monograph in four parts. The practice, the work, the person, the way in.

A book of forty eight names,
two countries, and one
very busy studio.

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.

Volume
One. 2020 → today.
Sections
Fourteen, plus a colophon.
Set in
Instrument Serif, Geist, JetBrains Mono.
Author
Ritu Sharma. Solo.
02 / A letter

Before we begin.

A short note about what I do, why this document exists, and what to look for as you read.
Marginalia
"Most brand work is just
writing, with pictures
kept honest."
Written
Dubai, July 2026.
Drafts
11
In the last two years my work has shipped for LG, JW Marriott, Don Julio, Teacher’s, and thirty three more names. Most of what I do, though, lives inside a cluster of six smaller brands in Dubai.

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.

Ritu.
Ritu Sharma. Visual Designer × Brand Strategist.
Dubai. [email protected]. July 2026.
Read this letter as
  • a. the long way of saying hello.
  • b. what to look for in this doc.
  • c. the practice in one screen.
Footnote ①
  • "Eleven drafts" isn't a
  • brag. It's how the practice
  • works. See p. 84.
03 / The practice

At a glance.

The numbers, because someone always wants them. Each one cites where in this document it's supported.
6
Distinct brand identities running in parallel. Construction, engineering, accounting, AI, automotive, and fire safety.
Current, Silver Crown Group.
§ 05
50+
Design assets shipping per month across the six brands. Social, campaign, print, video, microsite.
Production cadence.
§ 05.4
3×
Inbound demo requests against the internal launch target. SPAI, launched 2025.
Measured at launch.
§ 05.5
0
External agency hours used across the current group portfolio. Full single studio execution since Q1 2025.
Standing record.
§ 05.5
Premium forLG · JW Marriott · Don Julio · Teacher’s
CurrentlyRunning six brands, Silver Crown Group
ClusterSix brands, six industries
BasedDubai, UAE
PastLBB / Nykaa · CredAster · Nerdsey
LanguagesEnglish · Hindi · Punjabi
Premium forLG · JW Marriott · Don Julio · Teacher’s
CurrentlyRunning six brands, Silver Crown Group
ClusterSix brands, six industries
BasedDubai, UAE
PastLBB / Nykaa · CredAster · Nerdsey
LanguagesEnglish · Hindi · Punjabi
04 / The index

Selected work,
2020 to today.

Twelve projects across two countries. Hover any row to peek at the cover. The two starred entries open in full case form below; case one carries the archive, thirty three briefs deep.
ProjectClient / SectorDisciplineYear
01
Premium campaigns via LBB / Nykaa
LG, JW Marriott, Don Julio, Teacher’s
Little Black Book, India
Microsite, campaign, social, cross platform. Thirty three more briefs inside.
2024
LG
cover. LG microsite hero.01
02
Silver Crown Group
Diversified holding, six subsidiaries
Dubai, UAE
Master brand strategy, identity governance, monthly cadence.
2024 to today
Silver Crown mark
cover. Silver Crown mark.02
03
SPAI Smart Powered Artificial Intelligence
AI customer support technology
Silver Crown Group, UAE
Naming, identity, type, product UI, launch.
2025
SPAI
cover. SPAI launch film.03
04
Demon Cars
Automotive modification & performance
Silver Crown Group, UAE
Identity, livery system, social.
2025
Demon Cars mark
cover. Demon Cars mark.04
05
7 Lines Fire Protection
Safety & compliance services
Silver Crown Group, UAE
Identity, signage, technical documents.
2025
7 Lines mark
cover. 7 Lines mark.05
06
Emarc Engineering
Engineering consultancy, MEP & structural
Silver Crown Group, UAE
Identity, technical type system, web.
2025
Emarc mark
cover. Emarc mark.06
07
FGC Auditing & Accounting
Financial services, audit & advisory
Silver Crown Group, UAE
Identity, report system, client comms.
2024
FGC mark
cover. FGC mark.07
08
CredAster Health
Healthcare technology platform
India
Product design lead, brand standards, cross team direction.
2023
cover. CredAster product UI.08
09
Nerdsey Studios
Personal studio, content & voice
India, 2020 to 2023
Founder. Reels, Shorts, creator partnerships, organic growth.
2020
Nerdsey homepage
cover. nerdsey.com today.09
10
FicAition AI
AI products
Dubai, UAE
Brand identity and website design.
2026
FicAition website
cover. ficaition.com, live.10
11
OSForBiz.
Business systems
Dubai, UAE
Website design, end to end.
2026
OSForBiz website
cover. osforbiz.com, live.11
12
Dubai Tech Guy
IT services
Dubai, UAE
Brand identity and web presence.
2026
Dubai Tech Guy website
cover. dubaitechguy.com, live.12
04 / Featured case ★

Premium campaigns,
via Little Black Book (Nykaa).

A four month stretch in 2024 running end to end campaign design at LBB, a Nykaa owned lifestyle media and creative shop in India. The brief in plain English: dress up some of the loudest premium names in their categories, and don't make any of them look like the others.
★ Featured
ViaLittle Black Book, a Nykaa company. India based lifestyle media and creative platform that builds campaigns for premium consumer brands.
Scope I ledEnd to end campaign design. Microsite, social systems, print, cross platform branding. Responsible designer on every brief.
The stretchApril to August 2024. End to end on every brief, partnered with content and dev teams.

Loud names,
quiet hands.

№ 01 / Premiumfolio 14 →
The brief

The clients on the table would each normally get their own team. LG. JW Marriott. Don Julio. Teacher’s. Global identities already in place, campaigns that had to land in India without arguing with them. I worked each end to end, and the thread was the same: do the loud thing quietly.

Premium campaign work for LG, JW Marriott, Don Julio and Teacher’s via LBB
Hero. Mosaic of all four campaign hero frames.shipped
04.1 · The clients

Four names. Four different
kinds of quiet.

Client 01. South Korean conglomerate. Founded 1947 in Seoul by Koo In-hwoi as Lucky Chemical. Renamed LG in 1995 and given the “Life’s Good” tagline in 2004.

LG.

A product microsite tied to a launch cycle. India market. 2024.

The product brief came in with a tight scope and a tighter timeline. I built the microsite around the single argument the product needed to make, and it outperformed its control. The result won the desk the next brief, and the one after that.

Sector
Consumer electronics
Format
Microsite + social
Outcome
+30% engagement
Hands
Responsible designer
LG Genius Class campaign, designed by Ritu Sharma at LBB
LG microsite. Hero frame at full bleed.shipped
JW Marriott Bengaluru staycation campaign
JW Marriott. Editorial spread for India campaign.shipped
Client 02. Luxury hotel sub brand of Marriott International, named for company founder J. Willard Marriott. Over a hundred properties globally.

JW Marriott.

Editorial print and social for an India property’s seasonal campaign. 2024.

Luxury hospitality wants design that behaves the way a good room does. I built the seasonal India campaign as a small editorial system: one typographic voice, one photographic register, one rhythm of full bleed image and white margin, with print and social pulling from the same rules.

Sector
Luxury hospitality
Format
Editorial print + social
Tone
Composed
Role
Campaign designer
Client 03. Often called the world’s first luxury tequila. Distilled in the Jalisco highlands of Mexico since 1942 by Don Julio González. Owned by Diageo.

Don Julio.

An editorial film treatment and campaign visuals for an India launch moment. 2024.

The art direction borrowed more from food editorial than from drinks advertising, which gave it room to breathe. Mood and palette came from the bottle and the agave fields, the pacing stayed slow, and the system carried into social cutdowns and event collateral without losing the register.

Sector
Premium spirits
Format
Film + campaign + event
Palette
Agave / amber
Role
Campaign designer
Don Julio editorial campaign, Marieta Gurgaon
Don Julio. Editorial film still, opening frame.shipped
Teacher's EOD limited edition campaign
Teacher’s. Limited edition campaign visual.shipped
Client 04. Blended Scotch whisky out of Glasgow. William Teacher started selling whisky in 1830 and the Highland Cream blend was registered in 1884. Now part of Suntory Global Spirits.

Teacher’s.

A limited edition campaign run for the India market. 2024.

The brief asked for a nod to the brand’s age without the obvious Scottish cues, so the campaign hung on type and material instead: edition numbers, stamps, ledger lines. The vocabulary a brand born in 1830 has actually earned.

Sector
Blended whisky
Format
Limited edition print
Anchor
Archive / ledger
Role
Campaign designer
04.2 · In the wild

Across four months,
five surfaces.

LG campaign surface
LG. Microsite hero, kinetic type loop.surface 01
LG × LBB
Microsite, 2024
JW Marriott print surface
JW Marriott. Print, full bleed.surface 02
JW Marriott
Print + social
Don Julio film still
Don Julio. Film still 01.surface 03
Don Julio
Editorial film
Teacher's limited edition surface
Teacher’s. Limited edition.surface 04
Teacher’s
Limited edition
LBB editorial feature
LBB Editorial. Feature splash.surface 05
LBB Editorial
Feature splash
Cross platform brand kit
Cross platform kit. Brand system across touchpoints.surface 06
Platform kit
Multi touchpoint
04.2 / Featured highlight

The microsite
that went
30% up.

A focused product microsite for an LG campaign. Minimal art direction, fast type, slow imagery, built end to end as the responsible designer on the brief. It lived for a single campaign cycle and outperformed its control on engagement by a margin wide enough to win the next brief.
30%
Increase in user
engagement post launch.
(measured vs. control, 2024)
LG microsite that lifted engagement 30%
Microsite. Hero frame at full bleed.shipped
A premium brand’s most
useful trait is that it can
afford to be quiet.
Note pinned to studio wall, LBB, April 2024
04.3 · Outcomes

What got shipped.

4
Premium brands
shipped in 4 months
37
Briefs shipped from
one desk in four months
5
Distinct campaign systems
(LG, JW, Don Julio, Teacher’s, LBB Editorial)
1
Designer on each brief.
End to end.
04.4 · The archive

One desk. Thirty three
more briefs.

The rest of the book

The four names above were the loudest briefs, not the only ones. Every tile below is a shipped creative from the same 2024 desk, pulled straight from the working files.

Cadbury Silk Desserts bakery tie up banner, designed at LBB
Cadbury. Silk Desserts bakery tie up.a01
Cadbury
Banner system
Coke Flavours Unlocked campaign lockup
Coke. Flavours Unlocked lockup.a02
Coke
Campaign identity
Swiggy Dineout offer static, designed at LBB
Swiggy Dineout. Offer static.a03
Swiggy
Offer static
Deliure mango dessert summer special social
Deliure. Mango dessert summer special.a04
Deliure
FnB social
Plantaway dairy free ice cream story
Plantaway. Dairy free ice cream story.a05
Plantaway
Story
Roastea Cafe signature pour story
Roastea. Signature pour story.a06
Roastea
FnB story
Got Seoul campaign app banner, designed at LBB
Got Seoul. Campaign banner.a07
Got Seoul
App banner
Monkey Shoulder three city event carousel mockup
Monkey Shoulder. Three city event carousel.a08
Monkey Shoulder
Event carousel
Johnnie Walker live event social, designed at LBB
Johnnie Walker. Live night at Imperfecto Patio.a09
Johnnie Walker
Event social
Jaisalmer Indian craft gin social creative
Jaisalmer. Indian craft gin social.a10
Jaisalmer
Spirits social
Roku Gin taste of Japan launch static
Roku Gin. Taste of Japan launch.a11
Roku Gin
Launch static
Royal Stag festive microsite design
Royal Stag. Festive microsite.a12
Royal Stag
Microsite
Ardmore legacy tasting night recap
Ardmore. Legacy tasting night.a13
Ardmore
Event recap
100 Pipers music night creative
100 Pipers. Music night creative.a14
100 Pipers
Social static
Jacob's Creek Unvined share your bottle social
Jacob's Creek. Share your bottle.a15
Jacob's Creek
Wine social
The Blend bar night static
The Blend. Bar night static.a16
The Blend
Event static
Nykaa birthday story creative
Nykaa. Birthday cake story.a17
Nykaa
Story
Dazller Cosmetics all day lip colour static
Dazller. All day lip colour range.a18
Dazller
Product static
Swisee Biotin campaign story collage
Swisee. Biotin campaign collage.a19
Swisee
Product story
Indus Valley damage free hair colour static
Indus Valley. Damage free hair colour.a20
Indus Valley
Product static
Brinton UV Doux sunscreen summer static
Brinton. Sunscreen summer static.a21
Brinton
Skincare social
Asian Paints Apcolite mall activation social
Asian Paints. Apcolite mall activation.a22
Asian Paints
Activation social
DLF Active Delhi yoga carousel cover
DLF. Active Delhi carousel cover.a23
DLF
Carousel cover
Pernia's Pop-Up studio story creative
Pernia's Pop-Up. Studio story.a24
Pernia's Pop-Up
Story
IndiGo destination banner panel
IndiGo. Destination banner panel.a25
IndiGo
Web banner
Machu Tattoo Hyderabad opening post
Machu Tattoo. Hyderabad opening.a26
Machu Tattoo
Launch social
Fusion Salon and Spa interior reveal social
Fusion Salon and Spa. Interior reveal.a27
Fusion
Social static
Gallops Mumbai reimagined reveal social
Gallops. Reimagined reveal, Mumbai.a28
Gallops
Restaurant social
Vivaana hidden gem in Rajasthan social
Vivaana. Hidden gem in Rajasthan.a29
Vivaana
Hospitality social
Vasansi Jaipur ethnic pop up sale social
Vasansi Jaipur. Pop up sale, Mumbai.a30
Vasansi
Fashion social
Prestige SOI concert night post
Prestige SOI. Concert night post.a31
Prestige SOI
Event social
Life Saves small saves sticker design
Life Saves. Small saves sticker.a32
Life Saves
Sticker system
IM Besharam wellness brand social
IM Besharam. Bold wellness social.a33
IM Besharam
Social static

Campaign work designed by Ritu Sharma as the responsible designer on each brief, via Little Black Book, a Nykaa company. All brand names and marks remain the property of their respective owners, shown as a record of authorship.

Closing note

The premium work taught me how to be quiet on behalf of a brand that already had a voice. The next case is the opposite problem: six brands without one yet, all needing their own.

Continue to § 05, Silver Crown Group

05 / Featured case ★

Silver Crown Group.
Six brands, one studio.

A Dubai based holding company with six subsidiaries across unrelated industries. Each needs its own face. None can contradict the others. I'm the entire creative department.
★ Featured
The groupSilver Crown Group. Dubai based holding company operating six subsidiaries across unrelated industries.
My scopeMaster brand architecture, six individual identity systems, monthly creative output (about 50 assets a month), governance of the whole family.
The mandateThe group’s entire creative function, held in one pair of hands. November 2024 to today.

Six
industries.
One studio.

№ 02 / Silver Crownfolio 30 →
The challenge

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.

05.1 · Architecture

The shape
of the group.

Master backbone
Subsidiary surface
Diagram 05.1
Silver Crown Group. MASTER BRAND, EST. 2024 № 01 / CONSTRUCTION STEEL · INK · BLUEPRINT № 02 / ENGINEERING GOLD · GRAPHITE · WHITE № 03 / FINANCIAL RED · BLUE · GREEN № 04 / AI & SOFTWARE VIOLET · INDIGO · INK № 05 / AUTOMOTIVE CARBON · RACING YELLOW № 06 / SAFETY HAZARD RED · INK SHARED BACKBONE :: GRID · NUMBER STYLE · LEGAL FOOTPLATE · NAMING CONVENTION · MASTER FIGMA LIBRARY
The principle

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.

05.2 · The six

What each
brand does.

Silver Crown Building Contracting logo
Silver Crown Building Contracting mark.01
№ 01 / Construction
Silver Crown Building Contracting

Government approved contractor working across UAE infrastructure. The mother brand. Restrained, technical, sets the architectural backbone the family inherits from.

Steel · ink · blueprintanchor
Emarc Engineering Consultant logo
Emarc Engineering Consultant mark.02
№ 02 / Engineering
Emarc Engineering Consultants

MEP consulting and structural review for commercial projects. Drawings, dimensions, data dense. The brand looks like a clean technical document, on purpose.

Gold · graphitetechnical
FGC Accounting and Auditing logo
FGC Accounting & Auditing mark.03
№ 03 / Financial
FGC Auditing & Accounting

Audit, tax, and advisory for SMEs across the GCC. Quietly authoritative. Everything set in tabular figures, so the numbers do most of the work on the page.

Red · blue · greenquiet
SPAI wordmark
SPAI mark. Full sub case below.04
№ 04 / AI & software
SPAI Smart Powered Artificial Intelligence

AI customer support agents for mid market UAE businesses. The youngest brand in the family, and the only one born violet.

Violet · indigo · inksub case
Demon Cars logo
Demon Cars mark.05
№ 05 / Automotive
Demon Cars

Performance tuning and custom modification. The loudest brand in the family. Permission to use a broken grid and a cinematic register that reads closer to a bike magazine than a corporate identity.

Carbon · racing yellowloud
7 Lines Fire Protection logo
7 Lines Fire Protection mark.06
№ 06 / Safety & compliance
7 Lines Fire Protection

Civil Defence licensed fire safety services. Honest, high visibility, built to be read from across a job site at speed. The brand follows the same rule the work follows.

Hazard red · inksignage
05.3 · Governance

How they
stay apart.

The operating system

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.

SCG master library shared tokens board
Master library. The shared tokens board.05.3a
SCG brand book governance page
Brand book. The governance page.05.3b
05.4 · Monthly cadence

One month of
creative output.

October 2025. About 52 assets shipped across six brands.
Social Campaign Print Document Video
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
SCBC, constr.
Emarc, eng.
FGC, audit.
SPAI, AI.
Demon, auto.
7 Lines, safety.
05.5 · Featured sub case

SPAI. A soft face
on hard automation.

SUB CASE ★
ClientSPAI, Smart Powered Artificial Intelligence. A Silver Crown Group venture launching AI customer support tooling for mid market UAE businesses.
My scopeNaming territory, full visual identity, type system, product UI direction, launch system, social cadence, sales collateral.
Year & mandate2025. Brand lead, design lead, single handed execution from concept to ship in 12 weeks.

SPAI.

Sub case 05.5 / SPAIfolio 44 →
The brief

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.

SPAI brand hero
Hero. Launch film still, Smart Powered AI.launch
05.5.1 · Positioning

The paragraph
at the top.

How positioning works in this practice

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.

Adopted, v6
Document. Positioning paragraph.SPAI / 2025 / internal
Positioning, in one paragraph:

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.

Drafted 02.2025Locked 03.2025, v6
05.5.2 · Naming territory

Three routes,
one chosen.

The three routes

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.

Route A. The Human Job Title
Aric.
"A name with a person inside it. Reads as a colleague, not a product."
Tone
Warm
Risk
Too generic
Chosen
Route B. The Quiet Acronym
SPAI.
"Smart Powered Artificial Intelligence. Says what it is, refuses to perform. Period at the end."
Tone
Confident
Risk
Owned
Route C. The Verb
Reply.
"What it does, said directly. Sharp. Owns the inbox category."
Tone
Sharp
Risk
Trademark
SPAI primary wordmark
Wordmark. Full primary lockup.shipped
SPAI wordmark variations
Wordmark. Monogram and state variations.shipped
05.5.3 · The system

The six pieces
of the brand.

01. Wordmark
SPAI wordmark

Rounded geometric letterforms running a violet gradient, closed by a full stop. The name refuses to perform; the period refuses to apologize.

02. Type system
Aa Bb Display · Body · Mono

One display serif for warmth, one neutral sans for clarity, one mono for data and product UI. Three voices, never four.

03. Color

Violet against a blue category. The gradient runs deep violet to indigo; everything else stays ink and white so the mark owns the color.

04. Iconography

Half disc system. Every state of an AI conversation as a different fraction of light. Twelve icons, one geometric idea.

05. Voice
"It's already replied to twelve customers since you opened this email."

Specific, low key, slightly amused. The brand never raises its voice.

06. Motion
listening...

Slow fades, never bouncing. Type appears like it's being thought, not typed.

05.5.5 · In the wild

Where it lands.

SPAI company profile deck
Pitch deck spread. Opening slide of investor deck.shipped
SPAI product interface
Product UI. Conversation thread.shipped
SPAI capabilities and pricing
Sales deck. Pricing page.shipped
SPAI social launch creative
Social launch carousel.shipped
SPAI print collateral
Print. Onboarding leave behind.shipped
SPAI business card and collateral
Field photography. Installed in a customer office.shipped
05.5.6 · Outcomes

Where it
got us.

1 / 1
Brand lead. Concept to ship,
solo execution.
12wks
From naming territory to
full system launch.
3×
Inbound demo requests vs.
internal launch target.
0
External agency hours
required across launch.
Six brands. One pair of hands.
And zero outside
agency hours.
Standing record, Silver Crown Group, since Q1 2025
05.6 · Cluster outcomes

Where the group
stands now.

6
Distinct brand identities,
shared backbone.
50+
Assets shipped monthly,
across all six.
0
External agency dependency
since Q1 transition.
1
Person running it,
currently.
06 / CredAster

Product & brand for
a healthcare platform.

A six month engagement leading product design and brand standards on a clinical adjacent platform, where the wrong wording can cost a clinician’s time before it costs anything else.

CredAster.

A healthcare technology platform that needed to look authoritative, behave clinical, and feel kind. 2023, India.

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.

Led
Product design strategy
Year
Oct 2023 to Apr 2024
Track record
Every deadline met
Scope
Digital, print, system
CredAster. Product UI on tablet.drop in
07 / Nerdsey

The studio that taught me
how the internet actually talks.

Three years running my own content led practice. Reels, Shorts, creator partnerships, and the long, useful schooling in how a brand actually grows by being heard.

Nerdsey Studios.

A personal studio run from 2020 to 2023. Half playground, half school of voice.

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.

Role
Founder, designer, editor
Years
2020 to 2023
Surfaces
Reels, Shorts, creator
Today
nerdsey.com. Archive.
nerdsey.com homepage today
Nerdsey. The front door at nerdsey.com, today.live

Rhythm. Kathak
as composition.

A short detour. I'm also a trained Kathak dancer, junior diploma from Prayag Sangeet Samiti, 2021 to 2023. It's the part of the practice that doesn't fit on a CV, but shows up in the work anyway.

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.

Tihai. The threefold phrase. Watch it run ↓
Beats 1, 2, 3
Ta Ki Ta · Ta Ki Ta ·
Beats 4, 5, 6
· Ta Ki Ta · Ta Ki Ta
Beats 7, 8, 9
Ta Ki Ta · · Ta Ki Ta
→ sam
Sam. lands on beat 10. launch, the first beat of the next cycle.
Stressed Soft Sam, the resolve See footnote
09 / About

The person behind
the premium work.

Born in India, working out of Dubai. Trained in dance before I was trained in design, and yes, you can feel both in the work.

I design for the world’s
premium brands. And six of my own mandate,
in parallel.

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.

Portrait. Ritu, waist up, daylight.drop in
Disciplines
  • Brand identity & strategyCORE
  • Naming & voiceCORE
  • Typography & type systemsCORE
  • Print & editorial designCORE
  • Social & campaign designCORE
  • Product / UI directionADJACENT
  • Motion & short form videoADJACENT
Software shelf
  • IllustratorDAILY
  • PhotoshopDAILY
  • FigmaDAILY
  • AffinityWEEKLY
  • Premiere ProWEEKLY
  • ProcreateWHEN DRAWING
Education & certifications
  • BBA, Computer Aided ManagementGGSIPU, Delhi
  • Graphics, Web & DevelopmentArena Animation
  • Google UX Design ProfessionalCoursera, coursework 5 of 7
  • Junior Diploma, KathakPrayag Sangeet Samiti
Languages
  • EnglishFLUENT
  • HindiNATIVE
  • PunjabiCONVERSATIONAL
10 / Process

How an engagement
actually runs.

Five phases. Most engagements take 10 to 12 weeks. Strategy locks before any design happens. Design ships inside real applications, never floating on white.
01.

ListeningWeek 1 to 2

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.

InterviewsAuditNotionNo design yet
02.

PositioningWeek 3

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.

PositioningNamingVoiceLocked here
03.

IdentityWeek 4 to 7

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.

IllustratorFigmaAffinityProcreate
04.

The systemWeek 8 to 10

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.

Figma librariesInDesignBrand book
05.

Launch & aftercareWeek 11 to 12, then quarterly

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.

PremiereProcreateQuarterly review
11 / Services

Three ways
to work together.

I take two or three projects at a time. The menu's below. If your project doesn't fit, write me anyway. I write back to everyone.
01 / The Sprint

Naming & positioning

A two week intensive to find the strategic paragraph the brand has been missing.

  • Founder and customer conversations
  • Brand audit, honest about the present state
  • Positioning paragraph and principles
  • Naming territory, three routes
  • One final name, one voice document
Scoped per mandate.
2 weeks
02 / The Full Identity

Brand & system

End to end visual identity, built from strategy down to the last template.

  • Includes the Sprint
  • Two identity routes, in real applications
  • Wordmark, type system, color, imagery
  • Brand book and Figma library
  • Launch design support: print, social, web
Scoped per mandate.
10 to 12 weeks
03 / The Retainer

Ongoing stewardship

For brands that have launched and need the system kept honest as they grow.

  • About 50 assets/month, multiple brands
  • Quarterly creative direction reviews
  • Voice and system maintenance
  • Campaign and launch design
  • The current Silver Crown engagement
Scoped per mandate.
Quarterly cycle
12 / Every name

Every name
in this book.

All forty eight, keyed. ● direct mandate · ◐ via LBB / Nykaa campaigns · ○ Silver Crown Group · ✦ own studio.
LG
JW Marriott
Don Julio
Teacher’s
Cadbury
Coke
Swiggy
Johnnie Walker
Nykaa
DLF
Asian Paints
IndiGo
Royal Stag
Roku Gin
FicAition
Jaisalmer
Jacob's Creek
Monkey Shoulder
100 Pipers
Ardmore
Pernia's Pop-Up
Got Seoul
Brinton
Dazller
Deliure
Fusion
Gallops
Indus Valley
Life Saves
OSForBiz
Machu Tattoo
Plantaway
Roastea
Swisee
The Blend
Vasansi Jaipur
Vivaana
Dubai Tech Guy
Prestige SOI
IM Besharam
Silver Crown.
SPAI
DEMON CARS
Emarc
FGC.
7 LINES
CredAster
Nerdsey
13 / Footnotes

The fine print.

Numbered notes referenced throughout this document, in the order they appear.
① /
"Eleven drafts" is how the practice works: most paragraphs ship between v5 and v9, SPAI’s positioning locked at v6, the brand book went through nine internal revisions. If the wording is not worth rewriting eleven times, it is not worth shipping.
§ 02. Letter
② /
Silver Crown Group is structured as a master brand with six operational subsidiaries: Silver Crown Building Contracting, Emarc Engineering Consultants, FGC Auditing & Accounting, SPAI, Demon Cars, and 7 Lines Fire Protection. Each operates in a different industry. All six are stewarded by one creative function. That's me.
§ 04 closer
③ /
The diagram in § 05.1 is simplified for legibility. The actual backbone carries eleven shared tokens. Only a handful are visible above the line.
§ 05.1. Architecture
④ /
If you are not a dancer: a tihai is a threefold rhythmic phrase used in Kathak and in Indian classical music more broadly. It resolves on the sam, the first beat of the next cycle. The phrase is exactly the same three times. What changes is the negative space around it. The composition's tension lives in the silence, not the syllables.
§ 08. Rhythm
⑤ /
All client work shown across § 04 to § 07 was executed either solo or as lead designer on the engagement. Where collaborators existed (LBB editorial team, CredAster product team, Silver Crown leadership), they were sources of brief, review, or domain expertise. Not design execution. No assets shown in this document were produced by an external agency.
Throughout
⑥ /
Two plates in this document remain open by intention: the portrait, and the CredAster interface. Everything else on these pages is the shipped artifact. Open plates are labeled with what belongs there.
Throughout
Currently open for two engagements. Q3 2026.

Let's
make
something
honest.

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.

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Volume One. 2020 → today.
Edition № 037. July 2026.
Made by Ritu Sharma. Solo. From Dubai.
© 2026 Ritu Sharma. All rights reserved. Ritu Sharma. Visual Designer × Brand Strategist. End of document.