One remote designer for
Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait.
If you need a brand designer in Doha, Manama or Kuwait City, I work remotely with businesses across Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait. All three countries have Arabic as their official language and run on UTC+3 all year, so when your brand needs both scripts I design the Arabic and English versions of the logo together, and calls happen in your working hours. A logo takes 2–4 weeks and a full brand identity 4–10 weeks, with one fixed price agreed in writing after a free 30-minute call.
- Time zone
- UTC+3, no DST
- First call
- Free, 30 min
- Brand identity
- 4–10 weeks
- Ownership
- 100% yours
Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait: what changes for your brand
The three markets share a clock and Arabic as the official language, but their economies differ, and so does the paperwork a brand meets: where the name is registered, what the sign must show and where the trademark is filed.
Qatar’s population stood at 3,214,609 at the end of December 2025. Visitor arrivals grew 3.7% to 5.1 million in 2025, the MICE sector welcomed over one million business visitors, and Doha is the GCC Tourism Capital for 2026. In January 2026 the Qatar Financial Centre moved its headquarters to Lusail Boulevard.
Bahrain had 1,603,260 residents in mid-2025, 297,211 in Muharraq Governorate and 322,290 in the Southern Governorate, home to Riffa. More than half are not Bahraini. In preliminary 2025 figures, non-oil activities made up 85.8% of real GDP, with finance and insurance the largest non-oil sector, at 17.6% of real GDP. In Muharraq, merchant houses and shops from the pearling trade are part of a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Kuwait had 5.237 million residents at the end of 2025, 1.563 million of them citizens, so about seven in ten are not Kuwaiti. In 2018 Salem Al-Mubarak Street in Salmiya reopened as Barayeh Salem, a shopping street closed to traffic, with kiosks offered to young Kuwaiti entrepreneurs.
With large non-citizen populations in Bahrain and Kuwait and international visitors in Qatar, plan the Arabic and English together; the bilingual brand guide shows how.
- Qatar: Arabic names and marksQatar’s Law No. 7 of 2019 asks for Arabic company names; internationally known names may keep the foreign name with Arabic written alongside. Trademarks are written in Arabic and may use another language if Arabic has the most prominent place.
- Bahrain: the licensed name on your signBahrain EDB’s guide asks for the commercial name in English and Arabic when you reserve it on Sijilat, and that licensed name, not only your logo, has to appear on your storefront.
- Labels and packagingFood labels in Qatar and Bahrain must be in Arabic or in Arabic and English, and Qatar accepts Arabic stickers. In Kuwait, food label information must be in Arabic, with multilingual labels accepted. Bahraini factories with 35% or more local content can apply for the “Made in Bahrain” mark and print it on packaging.
- One trademark law, three filingsThe GCC Trademark Law (Kuwait 2015, Bahrain 2016; Qatar approved it in 2014 and issued its regulations in 2023) sets common rules, but a mark is filed in each country. Qatar and Bahrain are in WIPO’s Madrid system. Since Saudi Arabia joined on October 8, 2026, Kuwait is the only GCC country outside it.
- Where companies registerQatar’s Single Window reserves a trade name and issues the commercial registration and license in one place. Bahrain uses Sijilat, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce’s registration portal. Kuwait’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry sets up companies and issues licenses online through its Kuwait Business Center.
- Bahrain: the CR number on paper tooBahrain’s Ministry of Industry and Commerce says the commercial registration number and branch must also appear on correspondence, receipts and publications. Leave a fixed place for them on letterheads, invoices and receipts.
Services for Qatar, Bahrain & Kuwait
All services- Bilingual logo designArabic and English versions of your logo designed together, ready for signs, labels and trademark filings.
- Brand identityStrategy, logo system, color, type and guidelines for a company launching in Doha, Manama or Kuwait City.
- Logo designA logo, wordmark and symbol for an early launch, ready for a storefront sign, an app icon and your lawyer’s trademark filing.
- Brand namingName ideas, a shortlist and domain and social checks before you reserve a trade name.
- Packaging designPackaging with room planned from the start for Arabic label text, which food labels in all three countries need.
How it works, step by step
01Discovery
A free 30-minute call in UTC+3 about your company, your customers and where the brand will appear: a Bahrain storefront, a Qatar food label, an app.
- Free call
- UTC+3
- Written proposal
02Strategy
Positioning, audience and the role Arabic and English play in your brand, agreed before any design starts.
- Positioning
- Audience
- Languages
03Identity
Logo, type, color and layouts, in both scripts where the brand needs them, with weekly check-ins and two revision rounds per phase.
- Logo system
- Weekly check-ins
- 2 revision rounds
04Handover
Identity work: brand guidelines (PDF) and a Figma library with source files. Logo work: clean files for your lawyer’s trademark filing. You own all final files.
- Guidelines
- Figma library
- Full ownership
Closest work: real estate, resort, coffee shop and finance
All work
Lyvio AI real estate brand identity
Reva7 resort brand identity and website
Tong coffee shop brand identity
Pinvet finance management brand identity and website
What clients say
All reviewsGreat experience working with him. He understood the direction quickly, was easy to communicate with, and delivered quality work.
Cities in Qatar, Bahrain & Kuwait
Available, remotely, to businesses in
- Doha
- Lusail
- Al Rayyan
- Al Wakrah
- Manama
- Muharraq
- Riffa
- Kuwait City
- Salmiya
- Hawalli
Questions founders ask
Do you work with businesses in Doha, Manama and Kuwait City?
Yes, remotely. I don’t have an office in Qatar, Bahrain or Kuwait; the work runs through calls and shared files. All three countries keep UTC+3 with no daylight saving, so the free first call and the weekly check-ins happen in your working hours.
Does my brand need an Arabic version in Qatar?
For the company name, generally yes: Qatar’s 2019 Arabic language law asks for Arabic company names. For trademarks, it says they are written in Arabic and may also use another language if Arabic has the most prominent place; ask your lawyer how that applies to your filing and your signs. I design both scripts together so an Arabic-led version is ready if you need it. The projects on this page are English-script work; my bilingual example is Lacio (لاسيو), a sewing and lace supplies shop in Iraq, shown in the guide to bilingual Arabic and English brands.
What do Bahrain’s rules mean for my shop sign?
Bahrain’s Ministry of Industry and Commerce says the sign must be clearly visible on the storefront, show the commercial name exactly as it appears on your registration certificate, and show the registration number and branch. Displaying your trademark does not replace the licensed name, so plan a sign layout that carries both.
Can you file my trademark in Qatar, Bahrain or Kuwait?
No. Trademark filing is not part of a design project: your lawyer files it, and I hand over clean files. Each country has its own office: the Intellectual Property Department at Qatar’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the Foreign Trade and Industrial Property Directorate at Bahrain’s Ministry of Industry and Commerce (applications are filed through its online e-services), and the Trademarks and Patents Department at Kuwait’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Qatar’s online form asks for a JPEG image of the mark.
Will you check what my brand name means in Arabic?
No. The naming service covers name ideas, a shortlist, domain and social checks and a preliminary trademark search in the USPTO, UAE Ministry of Economy and Tourism and SAIP databases. It is not an Arabic–English meaning check, so have a native speaker review the shortlist before you reserve the name. The search also does not cover the Qatar, Bahrain or Kuwait registers, so ask your lawyer to search there; Bahrain’s Ministry of Industry and Commerce links a WIPO Publish search of marks registered in Bahrain.
How long does a bilingual brand take?
A bilingual Arabic and English logo takes 2–4 weeks, a full brand identity 4–10 weeks and a rebrand 6–12 weeks. If you are about to reserve a name on Sijilat or Qatar’s Single Window, settle the Arabic and English name first: Bahrain asks for both when you reserve it, and the licensed name, not only your logo, has to appear on your sign.
How much does branding cost?
It depends on the scope: how many languages the brand covers and where it has to work on day one. After a free 30-minute call you get a fixed written proposal with one price, the timeline and the deliverables, and the price never changes mid-project. The brand identity cost guide under Related reading explains typical market ranges in the US and Dubai.
Related reading
Designing a bilingual brand in Arabic and English
How to make Arabic and English logos feel like one brand, not two.
How much does a brand identity cost in 2026?
What drives the price of a brand identity, what a typical scope includes, and how to get a written quote for your startup.
What a brand identity actually includes
The parts of a brand identity, and which ones your startup needs first.
Other countries
All locations- Saudi ArabiaArabic and English visual identities and rebrands for Saudi companies, planned around trade names, shop signs and trademarks.
- UAEArabic and English brand identities for new company setups and growing businesses across the seven emirates.
- United StatesRemote logo, brand identity and rebrand work for US founders, from Miami to Boise, with calls in your time zone.
- OmanRemote Arabic and English brand identities for Oman, planned for its labeling rules and trademarks, with calls in GMT+4.
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