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...
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....
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...
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...
