The Spark Awards is a premier global venture competition. For its massive standalone debut in Doha, I executed a complete visual takeover: high converting social campaigns, physical venue branding, and uncompromising motion graphics production.
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2026
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Creative Design Lead & Motion Designer
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Branding
Motion Graphics
Event Design
The campaign that built the audience before doors opened: short-form video teasers, countdown content, and social posts tailored to every platform, run to drive applications and awareness worldwide.
Numbers don't lie.
Everything the campaign moved before doors opened.
With the venue confirmed just two months out, the trailer had to move fast and still be the strongest thing Spark Awards had put out. Every character in it was built by hand in Blender and After Effects; Runway only came in at the final render step, a way to move faster under deadline, not a substitute for the work itself. It went on to be one of the best-performing pieces the brand has released, on social and live on the Doha stage.
Continuum's membership program was set to launch right after the event, and the room included Qatar's royal family alongside a wider stretch of high-net-worth guests. The entire Continuum ecosystem runs on this program, so the film introducing it had to earn that room's attention on the first watch.
A short reel of the animated screen content built for the main stage: the show flow, the transitions, every piece of on-screen motion, run live from open to close across the full event.
The environmental branding that carried the identity into the venue: entrance signage, stage dressing, and wayfinding, designed and installed to make the space unmistakably Spark Awards.
Everything that happened once they did.
Just some random clips and pictures from the event backstage.
(TESTIMONIALS)
Hear from them.
Salma Patel
Founder, Deenship
From the venue branding to the inspiration on stage, every detail was flawless - an experience not to forget!
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Samah Khalid
Founder & Creative Director, Artesy Studio
The room felt different from most business events. Less performance. More purpose. You could sense it as soon as you walked in.
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Aminul Hoque
Co-Founder, TaskHeroes
The speakers were sharp and purposeful. The cinematic storytelling and pitches were compelling... One thread ran through them all: real intent to create genuine impact.
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Omar Khan
Co-Founder & CEO, Ruh
It truly set the highest bar l've seen in terms of the whole experience, production quality, and even the calibre of people it brought together.
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