Oumlil.

2022
Art direction Identity design Packaging design

Oumlil is a Moroccan-American luxury menswear brand. The client was born in Morocco and moved to the US in the 1980s. He didn't just have a brand born between two worlds. He was the brand.

Oumlil — Aesthetics over beauty bus shelter campaign OUMLIL / 2022
The thinking
Problem

Exceptional craftsmanship. No unified brand system to communicate it.

Insight

What feels modern and beautiful today comes from the collision of cultures. The duality was already there. We just made it visible.

Strategic question

How do you build a luxury identity around cultural duality without flattening either side?

Solution

Tension as elegance.

Latin and Tifinagh letterforms colliding in one mark, the same way two cultures collide in the brand. The Tifinagh M isn't a stylistic choice. It's the idea made visible.

The ethos holds the system together: playful, understated, provocateur. A lens applied to every brand expression, from the primary mark to the disruptor wordmark to the packaging. Nothing in the system asks you to pick a side.

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