Logo design in Dubai that still works as a tiny WhatsApp circle

How logo design in Dubai works with us

It's AED 499 as an extra on any website package, or included free with Business (AED 2,999) and E-Commerce (AED 7,999). We start with a short brief about your business, your customers and the names or styles you already like or hate.

Then you get three logo ideas. Pick your favourite and we finalise it.

Start with the name on your licence

Your logo should use the trade name your customers will see on your licence, invoices and signage. A shortened nickname looks friendly on Instagram but confuses people checking that you're the company named on the contract.

If you'll need the Arabic trade name on signage later, tell us at the start. The English mark can be designed with room for it, which saves a redraw when the sign maker asks.

Where your logo will actually be used

Make a quick list before the brief. In the UAE it's usually something like:

• A WhatsApp Business and Instagram profile picture
• Shopfront or office signage
• Vehicle stickers if you have vans or cars
• Invoices and quotations
• Staff uniforms or ID cards
• The website and browser tab icon

Simple usually lasts longer

Thin lines vanish when a logo is printed small or embroidered on a shirt. Fine gradients turn muddy on a cheap sticker. Four colours cost more on every sign you ever order.

So we push for marks that work in one colour first. You can always add colour on the website. Going the other way, from a busy logo to something simple, usually means starting again.

What three ideas means

Three ideas and a finalised favourite is a focused process, not endless rounds. It goes smoothest when you arrive with a clear sense of what you like. If you're still deciding on the business name, settle that first. Changing the name halfway through means paying for a fresh start.

A logo also isn't a trademark. Registering a trademark in the UAE is a separate legal process, and if your name matters a lot to the business, speak to a trademark specialist before you print anything.

What to bring to the brief

Your exact business name and how you'd like it written. Two or three logos you like, from any industry, and one or two you don't. The colours your competitors on the same street use, so we can steer clear of them.

And who you're trying to win. A logo for a premium clinic in Jumeirah and one for a removals company in Al Quoz shouldn't look alike, even if both owners love navy.

Colour and the rest of your brand

Pick one main colour and stick with it. It becomes your website buttons, your WhatsApp Business cover, your van and your uniforms. Customers start to recognise it before they read the name.

We'll test the colour on screen and in one-colour print, because a shade that glows on a phone can look flat on a printed invoice.

Typefaces matter as well. The font in your logo doesn't have to match the website text, but they should sit comfortably together. We'll pick the website fonts to suit the mark, so the whole thing looks planned rather than assembled from different suppliers.

Ordering signage and stickers

Wait until the logo is final before ordering signs. Sign makers and printers quote from the finished artwork, and reordering a shopfront sign because of a small tweak is an expensive mistake.

Advertising on vehicles and some signage in the UAE needs approval from the local authority, so check with your sign maker what applies in your emirate before you print.

When to refresh an old logo instead

If customers already know your logo, starting from scratch can cost you recognition you've spent years building. A refresh keeps the parts people remember, such as the colour, the shape or the initial, and tidies the rest so it works on phones and modern signage.

Bring the original files if you have them. If all you have is a photo of a sign, that's fine too. We'll redraw it cleanly.

Either way, logo design in Dubai starts with how the business is seen today, then works out what should stay.

Getting started

Tick Logo design as an extra when you price your website in our studio, or choose the Business package to get three logo concepts included.

Prefer to talk first? Call or WhatsApp +971 52 292 3875.