We are an interdisciplinary collaborative that designs bespoke spaces, brands, systems & graphics.
We excel in idea synthesis & adaptability, and leverage our diverse skillsets & global community to explore every conceivable point of intersection in our designs. Our work integrates knowledge from various fields, and addresses real-world challenges in ways that captivate and inspire.
We work with arts, cultural, academic, and mission-driven organizations — from established institutions to emerging initiatives — offering design, branding, and community engagement support.
Meet our founding partners.
Creative Partner & Lebanon Studio Lead
Omar is an architect and educator with experience across Beirut, New York, and the MENA Region, working at the intersection of conceptual thinking, collaborative design, and built practice.
He holds a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University’s GSAPP and a Bachelor of Architecture from the American University of Beirut, where he currently teaches. With a deep interest in theory, material exploration, and critical design methods, Omar brings a sharp, lateral-thinking approach to every project.
Known for his ability to challenge assumptions and uncover new perspectives, he thrives in team-based environments that value inquiry and experimentation.
Omar Bacho
Creative Director and US Studio Lead
Rami is a curious and empathetic Creative Director with over a decade of experience across design, management, and higher education.
With a background in Design Studies, Architecture, Studio Arts, and Art History, he approaches design as a collaborative, multifaceted discipline—balancing its sense-making and problem-solving capacities.
In addition to leading twig, he is a Strategic Design & Management Coordinator and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design in New York.
Rami is known for leading with clarity, fostering collaboration, and turning complex ideas into impactful design. He is deeply committed to advancing social justice through innovation, education, and thoughtful creative direction.
Rami Saab
Multidisciplinary Designer & Australia Studio Lead
Sirena Varma is a multidisciplinary designer and artist who works across the visual arts, graphic design and exhibition design from Beirut, based in Magan-djin (Brisbane). Through processes grounded in collaboration and co-creation, Sirena brings forth evocative engagements on cultural care, collective memory and visual story-telling.
As a self-taught graphic designer with a Bachelor in Architecture, and co-founder and creative director of Twig Collaborative, Sirena has spent over a decade refining her creative and collaborative processes. Guided by her commitment to cultural care and resistance through art, Sirena co-founded Magan-djin Creatives for Palestine with artist and print-maker, Prita Tina Yeganeh, designing branding and scenography for Magan-djin for Palestine exhibitions and activations.
Sirena’s interdisciplinary praxis is shaped by creative processes that embrace engaging with a range of mediums and collaborators, alongside inspiration drawn from her Lebanese, Palestinian, German and Indian heritage and personal experience with migration. Sirena’s recent collaboration, Blatt & Matonelli, developed with Katherine Palella, reimagines traditional tile-making practices to craft a contemporary visual conversation with the aesthetics of the Levant and Mediterranean and the various waves of migration to Australia since the 1960s.
Sirena Varma
Our services.
These are the core practices we build from. Around them, we weave together custom teams , drawing on a global community of collaborators to shape each project with care. Our work integrates knowledge across disciplines, managing diverse stakeholders so our clients receive a cohesive, fully realized project, thoughtfully led from start to finish.
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Exhibitions
Scenography & Exhibition Design
Curation & Stakeholder Coordination
Environments
Interior Design
Furniture & Object Selection
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Strategy & Story
Naming & Narrative
Values & Positioning
Identity & Expression
Visual Identity Systems
Print, Packaging & Collateral
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Interfaces
UX/UI Design
Website Design & Implementation
Objects
Product & Furniture Design
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Data Visualization
Quantitative & Qualitative Visuals
Animated Infographics
Editorial & Publishing
Book & Monograph Design
Print Production
Our values.
Collaboration & Co-creation
Collaboration allows us to tackle interdisciplinary wicked problems head-on from varying perspectives & at multiple levels. We believe that everyone is creative and possesses an innate know-how that can be harnessed to tackle design challenges.
Praxis
Our work centers around theory informed practice and practice informed theory. In addition to leading Twig, our partners teach, lecture, and hold workshops at leading design institutions around the world.
Modularity & Permutability
We create modular designs that permute, recombine, and call on their users to engage in creating solutions that cater to changing needs. Our design’s flexibility lean into the fields iterative nature, and empower users to leverage their agency and transcribe their own stories.
Sustainability & Social Responsibility
We are rooted in our ethical commitment in creating a better and more equitable future for all people and living things. Our designs stem from a deep understanding of user centered design thinking that is built at the intersection of ethical practice, feasibility, viability, and desirability.
