Slash is a strategic design studio. We exist to turn intent into design that works.

Founded in 1995.

Based in the United Arab Emirates since 2010.

Studio at Erth, Abu Dhabi. Outposts in Tokyo and Milan.

Part of Ripple Collective.

UAE Olympic House / Paris, 2024

(1)Us, Slash

For more than thirty years we have built the brand strategies, visual identities and design systems of organizations that need to be understood clearly and credibly wherever they operate.

We start with strategy and discovery, understanding an organization deeply enough that the design becomes the natural expression of who it already is, not a style imposed on top. We then build the visual systems, the communication frameworks and the brand tools that carry that understanding everywhere the organization appears.

Much of our work has been for organizations that need to be credible at home and understood elsewhere at the same time. Several of those identities are more than a decade old and remain in use. The measure of a design system is whether it still works years after it was built.

About the studio

(3)Our work

Selected identity work

  • Abrahamic Family House
  • Al Mushrif Palace
  • Aldar
  • Department of Culture and Tourism
  • Emirates Foundation
  • Etihad Airways
  • The Founder’s Memorial
  • Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
  • House of Wisdom
  • Majlis Mohamed bin Zayed
  • Miral
  • National Library and Archives
  • National Projects Office
  • RoyalJet
  • UAE Embassies worldwide
  • UAE National Orchestra

(4) New perspectives

We do not follow trends. Durability comes from strategy, not from style.

How we work
Deep in the process
Deep in the process

(5)A glimpse into our world

A teaching moment / Ripple Collective Studio / Erth, Abu Dhabi
Design is a team sport

(6)Scrapbook

It’s the stuff that lights up our brains.

All of Scrapbook

(7)Small Talk

Small Talk podcast recording

Small Talk

Small Talk is our podcast that’s not a podcast: design conversations crafted with our friends as they pass through our Abu Dhabi studio.

Program

  • Abu Dhabi Sessions30 October – 8 November 2026
  • Final Draft17–18 April 2026
Community and program

Join us

We’re always interested in good humans that can bring something fresh to the team and add something new to the Ripple Collective world.

Is that you?

(8)Instagram

@ripplecollective.aeInstagram is our life at Ripple Collective. With no filters (except VSCO of course) this is who we are, and how we roll.
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