← Selected work ◈ SUB Constructions — Brand Facelift

We shape our homes,
our homes shape us.

SUB is a construction & interiors house that builds spaces people grow into. We gave it a full brand facelift — a market study, an art direction, and a new mark drawn straight from the letters S + U + B: an arch that reads as a home, a gateway, and a quiet stair toward something better.

Minimal. Architectural. Warm.نحن نصنع بيوتنا، ثم تصنعنا بيوتنا.

ClientSUB Constructions — Zamalek, Cairo

ScopeBrand facelift · Logo & identity system

RolloutPrint · Packaging · Web · Social

Monzology Creative Boutique

◈ The approach — a long look before a single line

After a long journey of market study and artistic research, one direction kept winning: minimalism. Not because it’s trendy — though it is — but because clean lines and a warm, monochromatic palette read as calm, elegant and expensive across every culture and taste SUB serves. So we started by collecting the world SUB should live in.

A moodboard of minimalist interiors — arched niches, cream walls, sculptural furniture and warm neutral tones — Visual references — the arches, the calm, the neutrals

A colour study pairing interior photographs with extracted swatches of warm neutrals, sage and terracotta — Colour study — pulling a palette from real rooms

01The mark — from pencil to system

We sketched dozens of routes before the shape settled. The winner wasn’t the loudest — it was the one that hid the whole name inside a single, quiet silhouette.

Pencil sketches in a notebook exploring SUB monogram routes — SB ligatures, framed marks and an S inside an arch — Exploration — a notebook full of routes

The final pencil sketch — an arch with a diagonal stroke forming an S — The final sketch — the arch, and the stair

02S + U + B, folded into one

Look once and you see an S. Look again and the U and B are there too, blended into the same continuous line — three letters, one mark.

The band-mark concept showing how the S, U and B letterforms overlap to build the single SUB monogram — Band-mark concept — S + U + B sharing one skeleton

The geometric construction of the SUB mark, built on a grid with a circular arch and angled guides — Mark anatomy — drawn on a strict geometric grid

03Reading the mark

The Arch

An arch is inherent to almost every architectural language, and it always signals elegance and subtlety. As a gate or a window, it quietly promises comfort and optimism.

The Letters

At first glance the S reads clearly — but look closer and the U and B are there too, blended together inside the same mark.

Stairs of Prosperity

The diagonal line running through the mark is a simplified stair — so the whole composition becomes a gateway to progress and prosperity.

One silhouette

A home, a doorway, a letter and a stair — held in a single monoline shape that works from a wax seal to a building sign.

04The same mark, every material

The SUB mark blind-embossed in gold on dark leather — Gold foil on leather

The SUB mark printed in gold on white fabric — Printed on fabric

The full SUB lockup in gold foil on a rich brown ground — Foil lockup on brown

05The palette — warm, quiet, expensive

Classy Gold

#B8A976

Fresh Cream

#F7F2E1

Warm Shadow

#474543

Secondary colours — a warm, natural range pulled from real rooms

#CACFB7

#49645D

#9C6F5F

#EEA489

#F7CCC3

#B8B098

06The typeface — rounded, and hand-signed

Main font

Comfortaa

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ #

Autography

Comfortaa carries the whole system — its geometric, rounded letterforms echo the arch in the mark, so headline and logo feel cut from the same cloth. A hand-signed script, Autography, comes in for the human touch: a signature on a card, a warm note on a cover.

07Out into the world

A brand is only as good as the day it ships. We rolled the system across everything a client actually touches — from the card in their hand to the seal on the envelope.

The SUB stationery set — business cards, letterhead, envelope and document folder in olive and cream — The stationery set — cards, letterhead, envelope, folder

SUB business cards, olive and cream, resting on a wooden surface — Business cards — two-sided, two tones

A gold wax seal stamped with the SUB mark on a black envelope, next to a brass seal stamp — The wax seal — the mark as a stamp

08Catalogue & print

A SUB catalogue held in two hands, its gold cover showing the mark above an interior render — The catalogue — interiors, told in SUB’s voice

An open SUB magazine spread showing interior renders and body copy — Editorial spreads

A SUB tri-fold brochure, unfolded, showing interior photography and the mark — The tri-fold brochure

Two arch-shaped cards carrying the SUB mark — one cream with gold foil, one dark grey — Arch-die-cut cards — the mark, made physical

09Web & social

The SUB website on a laptop, showing the mark, an interior photograph and body copy — The website — the system, on screen

Two SUB Instagram posts — Premium Furniture and Wooden Concepts — Social — premium furniture

Two SUB Instagram posts — Made from the finest resources, and Artistic Zone — Social — finest resources

A hand holding a phone showing the SUB Instagram feed — In the feed

10SUB’s edge — is it real?

Is it real?

SUB’s advantage is making 3D designs look genuinely real. So the photography rule became a game: leave the viewer unsure whether they’re looking at a photograph or a render. Every “beauty shot” in the system is built to blur that line.

A chair shown half as a photorealistic 3D render and half as a wireframe, asking whether it is real

Close-up beauty shots of SUB furniture — a marble tabletop and a leather-and-wood chair engraved with the mark — Beauty shots — the mark, engraved in the detail

More SUB furniture beauty shots — upholstery, walnut joinery and warm light — Photography that could be a render — or the other way round

◈ The full facelift

Every page of the SUB brand facelift, cover to cover — flip through the complete deck exactly as it was presented.

What this included

01Market study & art direction
02Logo & monogram system
03Colour & type system
04Print, packaging & stationery
05Web & social templates
063D & product photography direction

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