Xhesika Gasa
Visual identity systems for brands built to last.
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Zejtaria
Brand identity for the Albanian National Chamber of Crafts
Zejtaria was developed for the National Chamber of Crafts to reposition traditional trades as a serious, viable path — for a generation more inclined to doubt them than choose them.
The visual system centers on a...
Hekaya Archive
Heritage Fragrance Identity
Hekaya — حكاية — means story. It's born from the sea, the smoke, and the memory of scents passed between generations: a fragrance house that doesn't sell a product so much as keep one.
The identity was built to be remembered rather than...
Hello, Contra creatives👋
I'm Xhesika — a brand identity designer with eight years behind me, most of it spent shaping identities for cultural institutions and heritage-rooted brands.
Just shared three case studies here: a fragrance house, a craft guild, a publisher's mark....
Zana Bakalli Couture — Visual Identity
A couture house from Prishtina, dressed in myth.
Zana Bakalli Couture is a couture atelier from Kosovo. I built the brand identity around the idea that fashion here isn't just clothing, it's meaning, passed down and worn.
The core of the...
Sapere Aude
Brand identity for an independent publishing house
Sapere Aude — dare to know — is a brand identity for an independent publishing house in Tirana, founded on a simple conviction: knowledge isn't temporary. It's inheritance.
At its heart is the swallow — in Albanian...
