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SAMI ASSAF

Creative Strategist · Brand Storyteller · Recording Artist
rate me. i'll perform anyway.
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I build worlds.
For brands, and for myself.

Started with a song, ended up in strategy. Turns out writing a hit and building a brand are the same skill — most people just don't know both sides. I know both.

For Brands & Clients

Selected Work

Brands I've built from the ground up — name, concept, identity, and the campaigns that made them convert.

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01STILL
Jewelry Brand · Built from scratch

A jewelry brand built end to end — the name, the concept, the full visual identity, and the creative direction. A world where jewelry meets the earth, born from one founder's story. The teaser hit 100k views in 4 days on $16 of ad spend.

NamingConceptVisual IdentityCreative DirectionCampaign
STILL
Pavé on stone
STILL
Emerald & bloom
STILL
Gold vine
STILL
Stars
STILL
Hoops in greenery

★ @werestilljewelry
02Local Host
Brand & Content · Rentals

Ran the full brand and content operation for a short-term rental company across four markets — content strategy, creative direction, paid campaigns, and the storytelling that turned listings into a following. Built the brand book, the visual system, and the campaign calendar. $100K+ in social revenue · a Valentine's campaign that drove $11K+ in organic bookings · an Easter influencer brief at 1M+ views.


★ @localhostrentals
03Hostland Rentals
Photography & Video · Short-term rentals

Full production for a Beirut short-term rental company — professional photography and vertical video across their listings, plus three distinct styled scapes for a single space. Airbnb-standard visuals built to turn a listing into a booking. Shot in Gemmayze and beyond.

Hostland
Studio
Hostland
Studio
Blue scape
Blue scape
Blue scape
Blue scape
Industrial scape
Industrial
Industrial scape
Industrial
Boho scape
Boho scape
Boho scape
Boho scape

★ @hostlandrentals
04Tiffany Eva Diab
Artist Branding · Full brand codex

A complete brand codex for a Lebanese-Canadian singer-songwriter — visual identity, palette, wardrobe and photography direction, four content pillars, press bios, and the Arabic-transition narrative. Built from her real world: botanical art, ancient jewellery, candlelit altars, Victorian lace, women who feel everything. Where the music becomes a universe.

"For music lovers who use songs the way others use journals — the artist who makes it feel like the song already knew what you were going through."
Mysticalbotanical, ancient, spiritual — depth that doesn't announce itself
Softlace, candlelight, old paper, a voice that doesn't push
Poeticevery word earns its place, every image says two things
The Palette — drawn from her moodboard
Sandy Gold
Deep Wine
Terracotta
Dusty Sage
Amber Gold
Butter
Muted Rose
Dusty Blue
Warm Brown
Four Content Pillars
  • The Journal — her inner world made visible: collage pages, dream fragments, voice notes
  • The Craft — how the music gets made: practice moments, lyrics in progress
  • The Roots — Lebanon, faith, identity, the kuffiyeh, Arabic untranslated
  • The Gaze — what she reads, watches, feels: Joni Mitchell, Anaïs Nin, botanical worlds
Photography Direction
  • Warm light always — golden hour, candle, lamp. The light is a character.
  • She's inside things — the field, the frame — never the flat mid-distance shot
  • Film grain always. Highlights pulled, warmth elevated. One preset, forever.
  • The test: does it look like a photograph from a personal archive?
Wardrobe & World

Victorian lace, flowing maxi dresses, the kuffiyeh always present. Ancient-looking jewellery — coin necklaces, amber beads. Bare feet. Nothing that looks new.

A glimpse of the codex — the full document covers audience, stage presence, communication strategy, three press bios, and the Arabic-transition narrative arc.

Artist BrandingBrand CodexCreative DirectionVisual IdentityContent Strategy
05Brand Campaigns
Concept & Creative Direction

Campaign concepts and creative direction across beauty, hospitality, and lifestyle — including a NYX Professional Makeup product launch (GCC) and an Al Beiruti Restaurant Valentine's campaign (Beirut).

Campaign ConceptCreative DirectionCopy & Story
For Labels, Press & Collaborators

The Artist

Male. Arab. Pop. Performer. Unapologetic. The pop star who makes flowers look dangerous — from Beirut, arriving on every stage like the room was always his.

3EDDELI · عدّلي

The next single. A song about the people who rate you — and doing exactly what you do anyway. Cobalt, gold, and a whole world built around one idea: rate me. watch what happens.

كم نجمة بتعطيني؟
Coming Soon
75K+
streams worldwide
Anghami
Tempo Expo · industry
3
singles released

Press Bio

Sami Assaf is a Lebanese pop artist, songwriter, and performer from Beirut — the complete male Arab pop act the genre has never had. He moves. He writes his own songs. He builds his own world. Physically commanding, emotionally precise, and unapologetically expressive, he fills a space in Arab pop that has been empty for as long as the genre has existed.

His signature is the tension between a commanding pop presence and a botanical world he gravitates toward in every choice — the gold layered always, the flowers he makes look dangerous by being near them. Not the Arab version of anyone. The first version of himself, filtered through Beirut, Arabic, and a life built on refusing the ceiling.

"I'm the next pop sensation." Said as a fact. The room nodded.

Discography

Music

Because it all started with a song — and the storytelling never left.

عدّلي
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Let's build
something undeniable.