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Brand strategy& identitysystems

I find out what your brand is costing you, then build the identity system that fixes it. In Kurdish, Persian, Arabic and English.

An astronaut's helmet lit against black space, seen from a spacecraft window
01 · Rendezvous with Gemini VII, 1965 · NASA
Yashar Mahmoudi

Hello.
I'm Yashar.

The research comes before the design: interviews, a buyer survey, and the local context read properly. Then the system, set correctly in four languages, with files your team can edit after I leave.

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From the archive

  • A stork's nest on a mud pillar above a child, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1922

    01 · Kurdistan, 1922

  • The yellow radar screen of a SAGE air defence console

    02 · SAGE console, 1958

  • A river of crude oil in a valley near Kirkuk

    03 · Kirkuk, 1932

  • A spacecraft model seen through the porthole of a wind tunnel

    04 · Wind tunnel, 1980

  • The Earth rising over the Moon, Apollo 8

    05 · Earthrise, 1968

  • The Moon with a rocket in its eye, from Méliès' film

    06 · Le Voyage dans la Lune, 1902

One person, the whole job

  1. Research

    Find out what is actually happening before anything is designed.

  2. Design

    The identity, and everything it has to hold up in, in four languages.

  3. Systems

    Make it keep running after I leave.

How it works

  1. 01 Diagnose

    One page of observations on your current creative operation: what's actually happening. No fixes yet.

  2. 02 Install

    The brand system, the pipeline, the files your team will actually edit: built and installed inside your team, not handed over as a slide deck.

  3. 03 Train

    Your own people learn to run it. Hands on the actual work, not a handoff document.

  4. 04 Leave it working

    I roll off. The system doesn't stop. That's the point.

What they say

He did not approach design as only a visual exercise. He understood how the brand connects with audience, platform, message, and meaning.
Ahmad Ahmadian
Executive Director, Holistic Resilience
Over time, he earned a level of trust that allowed major creative decisions to move forward with little need for oversight.
Ahmad Ahmadian
Executive Director, Holistic Resilience
Creative, adaptable, and always open to breaking the mold, he tackled every project—especially the culturally and politically sensitive ones—with both insight and intensity.
Yadgar Karimi
Director, Kurdistan Studies Institute, University of Kurdistan

From formal reference letters. References →