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VOI logotype repeated in chrome and violet light on black

Client & agency

VOI, Saudi Arabia

with Singularity KSA

My role

Brand identity designer & art director

Scope

Logo, colour, typography, grid, iconography, mood boards, applications, campaign artwork

The brief

VOI is a Saudi innovations holding company. It picks projects by market demand, sustainability potential and regulation, and works with technology providers, construction suppliers and real estate service companies.

The brief was to present VOI as the exclusive community it offers, while keeping its image as a niche brand for a select audience. It had to read as a high-end holding company, one parent name that many ventures could sit under.

My role

What I did

Built the identity from zero

I started the identity from a blank page: the logotype, its shape language, the slash motif, the colour system and the typography.

Wrote the system down

I turned it into a 57-page guideline: clear space, co-branding, misuse rules, colour ratios, a 12-column grid, icons and photography styles.

Directed the team

I art directed the designers working with me: which images to choose, how layouts should look, and how the colours are distributed across every piece.

The idea

Driven by innovation. Inspired by tradition.

VOI lives between two things: solid foundations and adaptive growth. I wanted every part of the identity to hold that balance, sharp and soft, disciplined and flexible, exclusive and able to scale.

01

The logotype

One word, two weights. Firm lines for stability, soft curves for the people behind it.

How I thought

I kept the mark purely typographic, simple and elegant, so it could carry premium work without decoration. The letters use a double-weighted structure: thick and thin strokes side by side. That contrast is the brand's duality in one glance.

The curves come from the squircle, the shape between a square and a circle. It sits right between sharp and rounded, which is how I wanted VOI to feel: precise, but not cold.

Double weight

Solid foundations vs. adaptive growth. Discipline vs. creative flexibility.

Squircle curves

A human softness inside clean, confident lines.

The slash

Like a URL, VOI is the main domain that organises every venture beneath it.

VOI logotype in dark navy on pale blue
Close-up of the O curve and the logo construction lines
The forward-slash brand motif and the clear space built from the O

Craft

Clear space and co-branding spacing are both measured from the O of the logotype, so the system scales from a business card to a billboard without new rules.

02

Colour

Deep blues for trust, soft neutrals for clarity, and one electric purple that only appears when it matters.

How I thought

Purple has a long history with prestige and elite positioning. I used it as the accent, never the base. The two primaries carry 30% each; the four supporting shades stay at 10% each. That ratio keeps the brand calm and lets the purple land with impact.

VOI colour palette in its 30/30/10 proportions
VOI brand gradient from deep blue through white light to purple

03

Type & system

Two languages, one voice.

How I thought

Haas Grot Display for English and GE SS Two for Arabic. Both are clean and modern, with balanced proportions, so a bilingual layout keeps the same tone on both sides. I also set fallbacks (Arial and Cairo) so the brand holds up on any system.

Underneath everything is a 12-column grid with double-width side margins, plus a minimal icon set for the brand's digital touchpoints.

Haas Grot Display specimen
GE SS Two Arabic specimen
VOI icon set: twenty minimal icons in two rows

04

Art direction

Large, quiet spaces. A single person in them. Light doing the talking.

How I thought

For a niche, select audience, the images had to feel aspirational without shouting. I set the direction for the team: minimal modern architecture, strong geometry, natural light and shadow, and human figures placed small inside big spaces to show scale and calm.

I built proposed mood boards for the client to shoot against and use on social media, across four styles: lifestyle, architectural, on-site and branded. I guided the designers on which images to pick and how the purple should appear in each.

Glass V form in purple light and the brand gradient
Lifestyle mood board
Architecture and curved-structure mood boards
Branded photography mood board

05

Applications

Texture, emboss and one purple edge.

What I designed

I designed the applications myself. The stationery leans on touch: textured stock, an embossed logo, metallic details on the folder, and a purple edge line on the business cards so the colour shows from every angle. The book covers show how far the identity can stretch, from architectural 3D type to minimal geometry to metallic violet light.

Stationery set
Embossed folder and business cards with a purple edge
Letterhead and book covers

06

Campaign artwork

The name at monumental scale.

How I thought

For billboards and posters, the logotype becomes the architecture. Huge letters, a dark or dusk palette, one figure, and the line "Driven by innovation, inspired by tradition." The brand is recognisable from a distance before you read a single word.

VOI billboard: oversized letters over a man on concrete stairs at dusk
Chrome VOI billboard on black
Two VOI posters with architectural imagery
VOI social visual: living room overlooking a canyon pool

Outcome

A complete visual identity and a 57-page guideline that gives VOI one consistent voice across print, digital and outdoor. The system is strict where it needs to be and open enough for the team to keep creating new work under it.