About

Creative direction that stays with the work all the way to the final frame.

Danielle Shami · Tel Aviv

Danielle Shami is an independent creative director and brand designer based in Tel Aviv, working across brand identity, campaigns, AI image and film production, motion and 3D.

The work sits deliberately across those disciplines. A brand is no longer a logo and a palette handed to someone else to execute. It is a visual argument that has to hold up in a fifteen-second vertical film, a retail screen, a pitch deck and a product photograph, usually within the same week. Keeping strategy, image and motion under one direction is what stops the idea eroding at each handoff.

Projects have run through Singapore, New York, London and across Europe and the Middle East, for venture builders, retail and experiential brands, food and drink companies, hospitality groups and design-led businesses. Some engagements are full brand builds. Others are a single campaign visual that needs to be right.

Alongside client work, the studio runs a trend-intelligence practice: a continuous scan of culture, design, technology and consumer behaviour that feeds directly back into the creative work, and is published for other people making brands.

Approach

01Approach

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Strategy first, but not for long

Enough thinking to know what the brand is arguing, then straight into image. Strategy that never becomes visual is just a document.

02

One person accountable

The person who set the direction is the person reviewing the final asset. Specialists are brought in around that, not layered on top of it.

03

New tools, old standards

AI and 3D are production capability. They are judged by whether the image is good, not by how it was made.

Working together

Currently taking on select projects for Q4 2026. Available for studio projects, Studio Sprints, speaking and collaboration.