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Marklinica Elevates Andalusian Heritage in Ruhama

Marklinica Elevates Andalusian Heritage in Ruhama

What if a residence meant more than shelter it meant story?
Marklinica reimagined Ruhama as architecture turned narrative a brand where every wall, curve, and shadow speaks of belonging. The identity was designed not to decorate life, but to tell it a visual language where design preserves Andalusian heritage while elevating contemporary living.

The Challenge
To craft a brand identity rooted in Andalusian beauty that feels premium, timeless, and authentic without falling into cliché or ornamentation. The task was to build a design system that could balance heritage and modernity, warmth and restraint, poetry and precision.

The Solution
The brand was traced through architecture itself. Arabic calligraphy was refined into a structural motif merging with tile-based geometry that reflects balance, symmetry, and order. Ceramic blues, warm terracotta, and sun-washed whites evoke Mediterranean courtyards and sunlit façades. Every color, line, and texture became a memory of place tactile, human, and alive.
Typography was designed as architecture on paper clean, grounded, and modern in form yet poetic in rhythm. Each letter carries a sense of crafted permanence, bridging the old with the new.

Art Direction
Every visual element was treated like built space: signage framed as entryways, brochures unfolding like corridors, and wayfinding designed to feel intuitive yet composed. Surfaces were imagined under natural light soft gradients of shade and reflection. Finishes feel tangible, inviting touch rather than spectacle. Nothing screams; everything settles with quiet grace.

From façade plates to stationery, from keycards to environmental graphics, the entire system breathes the same philosophy that identity, like architecture, should feel lived in.
Ruhama becomes more than a residential brand. It becomes a timeless space of emotion and memory a place you return to, even before you arrive.

CREDIT

  • Agency/Creative: Marklinica
  • Article Title: Marklinica Elevates Andalusian Heritage in Ruhama
  • Organisation/Entity: Agency
  • Project Type: Identity
  • Project Status: Published
  • Agency/Creative Country: Egypt
  • Agency/Creative City: Alexandria
  • Market Region: Asia
  • Project Deliverables: 2D Design, Brand Architecture, Brand Creation, Brand Design, Brand Experience, Brand Guidelines, Brand Identity, Brand Strategy, Branding, Graphic Design, Identity System, Illustration
  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Keywords: Brand Identity, Visual Identity, Luxury Branding, Premium Branding, Cultural Branding, Architectural Branding, Minimal Design, Heritage Design, Mediterranean Aesthetic, Modern Classic, Arabic Calligraphy, Tile Geometry, Pattern Design, Typography System, Wayfinding Design, Signage Design, Environmental Graphics, Editorial Design, Art Direction, Brand Strategy, Design System, Place Identity, Timeless Design, Storytelling Design, Modern Heritage, Contemporary Arabic Design,

  • Credits:
    Art Director: Rana Mohsen
    Brand Designer: Rowan Hamada

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