North55

North55 North55 - a leading Branding Consultancy, crafting iconic hospitality and destination brands across Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia.

North55 is a UAE based independent creative consultancy specialising in branding and interactive design. This is what we do: we have ideas. We take those ideas and we nurture them, feed them and encourage them to grow. Some of them become sparkling brand identities, others websites that pop. Some go on to educate, inform and entertain, as brochures, mailers or ads. Some work alone, while others work together. But they all work hard

Love the new addition to the North55 Studio. An original turn of the century printer’s type cabinet from the early days ...
17/05/2026

Love the new addition to the North55 Studio. An original turn of the century printer’s type cabinet from the early days of letterpress printing, which retired from work at Zabeel Printing Press 30 years ago. Decades of craft, ink, typography and patina built into every drawer.

Objects of history from our industry allow us to reflect on our craft, and remind us to occasionally slow our pace a little.

There are places you visit. And then there are places that raise you.Forte dei Marmi was always the latter.Days that dri...
30/04/2026

There are places you visit. And then there are places that raise you.

Forte dei Marmi was always the latter.

Days that drifted from beach to table to aperitivo, unhurried, instinctive, eternal.

The art of doing nothing.

North55’s approach when were asked to develop the stratergy for Principessa, Autograph Collection, was not to preserve it as it was, but to evolve it with care, bringing a more contemporary rhythm to a timeless way of living.

One foot in heritage, the other in tomorrow.

Because La Dolce Vita isn’t a memory. It’s a feeling, and it deserves to move forward.







Branding is not a finishing touch. It is a strategic asset, and when it is brought in too late, the commercial cost is r...
29/04/2026

Branding is not a finishing touch. It is a strategic asset, and when it is brought in too late, the commercial cost is real.

In this exclusive interview, Craig Falconer, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of North55, draws on 25 years building hospitality and destination brands across the world’s most competitive markets, to make the case for early positioning and the discipline to strip things back to what truly matters.

Find out more in the latest issue of

At North55 Hospitality branding often starts with hotels, which naturally extends into F&B, and Spas / Wellness. And, oc...
14/04/2026

At North55 Hospitality branding often starts with hotels, which naturally extends into F&B, and Spas / Wellness. And, occasionally, more entertainment-led spaces, such as waterparks, theme parks, places built for pure escapism.

But every now and then, you step back and look at hospitality through a much wider lens. Not a single asset, not even a collection of them. But an entire destination. Sometimes that’s a masterplanned community, more rarely, it’s something else entirely.

A real place, where families have lived for generations, where nature isn’t curated but simply exists, and where hospitality isn’t added on, but carefully woven in. Lustica Bay, Montenegro is one of those projects. This isn’t a place you create, it’s something you uncover.

A life carved into the land, decorated in heritage, time unravels slowly here, measured in moments. This is a place where the past and future exist in quiet balance. Where modern privacy meets village warmth. Where tranquillity and adventure sit side by side.

For us, working under the guidance of Slavica Milic and Milan Vukicevic, the role of branding wasn’t to invent a story, but to listen closely enough to tell it properly. The most powerful destinations don’t need to be imagined, they simply need to be understood.

At North55, we’ve been working with The Ritz-Carlton for over a decade, but this week marked a new chapter for us, our f...
19/03/2026

At North55, we’ve been working with The Ritz-Carlton for over a decade, but this week marked a new chapter for us, our first venture into the Southern Hemisphere.

We hosted a two-day brand workshop ahead of the opening of the stunning Emirates Wolgon Valley, a Ritz-Carlton Lodge, set within the breathtaking Blue Mountains, 3hrs west of Sydney, Australia.

Collectively, we explored the market positioning and thematic direction, F&B positioning, and mapped meaningful guest experiences.

An inspiring setting for an exciting next chapter for Wolgon Valley Lodge.

North55 alongside Gaston Bernard, Director, Luxury Brands, W Hotels, recently hosted a brand repositioning workshop at t...
06/03/2026

North55 alongside Gaston Bernard, Director, Luxury Brands, W Hotels, recently hosted a brand repositioning workshop at the W Barcelona as part of the W Hotels global brand evolution.

Many thanks to Peter Schickling; Benjamin Cowtan; and Francesco Ripa and the whole W Team, for all your support, and invaluable contribution, it is an honour to be working with such an iconic property, and we are looking forward to the journey ahead.

Hotel lobby bars are too often seen as amenities, spaces you pass through, not places you arrive into.But the lobby bar ...
27/02/2026

Hotel lobby bars are too often seen as amenities, spaces you pass through, not places you arrive into.

But the lobby bar is one of a hotel’s most powerful branding stages, where first impressions and social energy collide.

That’s why it’s been especially rewarding working with Grosvenor House, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Dubai to shape a lobby bar with genuine personality, L/B’s invites guests to linger, locals to return, and the atmosphere itself to tell a story.

When a lobby bar has a personality, it stops being a waiting room and becomes a destination.

North55 recently had the pleasure of hosting the pre-opening Brand Positioning Workshop for the much anticipated W Riyad...
29/01/2026

North55 recently had the pleasure of hosting the pre-opening Brand Positioning Workshop for the much anticipated W Riyadh - KAFD alongside Gaston Bernard and Nicolas Hauvespre.

With incredible support from Janine Gerlich and Miguel Jimenez.

It’s an incredible honour for North55 to work with such dynamic exciting brands.

15/11/2021

We are looking for an Account Manager to join us from January for a 6 months contract - get in touch at [email protected] if interested!

Address

Office 905, Grosvenor Business Tower
Dubai

Opening Hours

Monday 09:00 - 18:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 18:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 18:00
Thursday 09:00 - 18:00
Friday 09:00 - 18:00

Telephone

+971 4 391 1490

Website

http://instagram.com/north55design, http://www.pinterest.com/north55/, https://twitter.com/Nort

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