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Penthouse

A social system for a rooftop lounge in Islamabad.

CLIENT

The Penthouse

YEAR

2021–2025

DISCIPLINES

Brand · Experiences

ROLE

Visual system, art direction, content design

01 / The challenge

Every post landed.The feed didn’t.

The Penthouse is a rooftop café and shisha lounge in Islamabad, a place that sells an evening, not a menu item. Its feed was built the way most restaurant feeds are built: one post at a time. The food had one look, the drinks another, the events a third, with gold effects doing the work that structure should have been doing. Individually, the posts were fine. Scrolled together, they read like four different restaurants.

The feed as it stood: eight posts, no shared system.
02 / What we did
01Brand

Decide once, then stop deciding.

Five values, fixed: deep espresso, smoky plum, warm champagne, cream white, modern gold. Two typefaces and no third voice: Gatlinburg carries the occasion, Maison Neue carries the information. The pairing does the whole job. Nothing is left over to decorate with.

02Experiences

Nine layouts that cover a year.

The feed was rebuilt as a modular system: one grid, one type hierarchy, masked image frames, a fixed corner badge. Nine layouts cover what a venue actually posts: menu items, event promotions, ambience, announcements, beverage spotlights. Whoever is on shift drops in a photograph and a line. The feed stays whole.

03 / Visuals
The terrace at dusk: the thing the system had to sell.
In place.
Nine layouts, empty. The system without the content.
04 / Outcome

A feed that can be run by whoever is on shift andstill look like The Penthouse.

Nine layouts, two typefaces, five fixed values: enough structure that a year of posts holds a single shape, and enough slack that no two posts look alike.

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