Independent thinking. Collaborative making.

  • Art Direction
  • Spatial Design
  • Brand Strategy

I shape brands, spaces and experiences.

Black-and-white portrait of Mustafa Lokhandwala leaning against a wall

Creative direction, brand strategy and spatial experience.

I work across brands, spaces and experiences — bringing strategic thinking and visual direction together to create meaningful, distinctive design.

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Point of view

I value clarity over decoration, character over convention and collaboration over isolated authorship.

— Mustafa Lokhandwala

Selected work

01—06

  1. 01

    Ground Baking Co.

    Brand identity · Packaging · Campaigns · Spatial experience

    A neighbourhood pizzeria with a big personality. We built a distinctive brand around familiar architecture, bold graphics and a simple ambition: to be locally world famous.

  2. 02

    Mavi Retreat

    Hospitality and spatial experience

    A hospitality project exploring spatial experience.

  3. 03

    Royal Enfield Garage Café, Goa

    Brand and spatial experience

    Brand and spatial experience for a café in Goa.

  4. 04

    Tribe by Amrapali

    Retail experience

    A retail experience project for Tribe by Amrapali.

  5. 05

    Qutab Garden

    Landscape and spatial intervention

    A landscape and spatial intervention project.

  6. 06

    Deval’s Studio

    Artist branding

    Personal branding for a metal sculpture artist.

01 / Creative approach

Good design begins with understanding what matters.

I connect business objectives, human behaviour and visual thinking to develop ideas that work across touchpoints, environments and experiences.

  1. 01 Strategy
  2. 02 Concept
  3. 03 Direction
  4. 04 Execution

02 / Complementary perspectives

Two practices. One connected perspective.

My work is shaped by two complementary practices. One works with the physical world; the other works with the systems through which people recognise and understand a brand.

  • 01 Form Design Studio Architecture, interiors and spatial design. Design leadership and multidisciplinary projects across hospitality, retail, residential and commercial environments.
  • 02 Dezinade Branding, identity and visual communication. Strategic and visual thinking expressed across brand identities and creative communication.

Both ask the same question: what should people understand, feel and remember?

Mustafa Lokhandwala reviewing drawings with a colleague

03 / About

I bring strategy, design and experience together.

I’m Mustafa Lokhandwala, a design leader working at the intersection of brand strategy, art direction and spatial experience.

My work moves between the way a brand looks, the way a place feels and the way people experience both. Across identity systems, hospitality, retail and built environments, I’m interested in finding the central idea that makes a project distinctive — then carrying that idea through the details.

04 / Contact

Have a good challenge in mind?

I’m interested in conversations about creative direction, brand strategy and experience-led design.

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