Applications · Art direction · Refresh
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2023

Qimam Holding

Five subsidiaries that had drifted into five identities. An endorsement system that lets them keep their own faces and still share a name.
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Qimam Holding
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Applications · Art direction · Refresh
YEAR
2023
SECTOR
Corporate
— SYSTEM

Palette and type

Summit
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Paper
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Group blue
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Endorsement
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Rule
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Qimam Holding
Söhne
Latin, corporate text
Annual report
IBM Plex Sans Arabic
Arabic, corporate text

The story

01 — THE BRIEF
Qimam’s subsidiaries operate in logistics, contracting and food, and had reasonably concluded over eight years that they had nothing in common. The group wanted one identity. The subsidiaries wanted to keep theirs. Both were right.
02 — APPROACH
An endorsement system rather than a masterbrand: each subsidiary keeps its mark and carries a fixed group signature at a fixed ratio. The group mark was refined, not replaced — the peaks were straightened to a single angle so it reproduces at signature size. One governance sheet that says what a subsidiary may change and what it may not, which is the part that actually holds a group together.
03 — OUTCOME
Nobody lost a logo and the group finally appears on everything. Investor materials stopped looking like five companies applying separately.
— DELIVERABLES

What shipped

Group mark refinement Endorsement system Subsidiary lockup rules Investor material direction Governance sheet, Arabic and English
— GALLERY

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