- Studio Melli is an independent graphic design practice based in The Hague & Tehran with a bold focus on multilingual typography and visual identity design, founded by Omid Nemalhabib and Mahsa Gholinezhad.
- To achieve a particular design language, Studio Melli expresses itself by exploring nature, visual culture, art, literature, philosophy, poetry, and the aesthetics of everyday life and social behavior. By following a contemporary approach, we believe in creating fresh, unconventional, meaningful, and experimental visual concepts.
Studio Melli is an independent graphic design practice based in The Hague & Tehran.
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Mahsa Gholinezhad
Co-founder, Art Director & Designer
Omid Nemalhabib
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Mahsa Gholinezhad
Co-founder, Art Director & Designer
Omid Nemalhabib
Co-founder, Art Director & Designer
Art direction
Visual identity design
Type design and typography
Spatial & Exhibition design
Editorial
Poster and print materials
Web design
Motion
Creative coding
Visual identity design
Type design and typography
Spatial & Exhibition design
Editorial
Poster and print materials
Web design
Motion
Creative coding
2021 1st Prize in the visual identity design competition for the city of Shiraz
2015 Silver Cypress 4, The 4th Biennial of Iranian Graphic Designers Society
2013 Nominated for Book Design, Silver Cypress 3, The 3rd of IGDS
2011 Nominated Calendar Design, Silver Cypress 2, The 2nd Biennial of IGDS
2010 2nd Prize of Typography Poster Festival, Today Posters, Tehran
2009 3rd Prize of Typography Poster Festival, Today Posters, Tehran
2009 3rd Prize of Meybodi Logo Design Contest
2015 Silver Cypress 4, The 4th Biennial of Iranian Graphic Designers Society
2013 Nominated for Book Design, Silver Cypress 3, The 3rd of IGDS
2011 Nominated Calendar Design, Silver Cypress 2, The 2nd Biennial of IGDS
2010 2nd Prize of Typography Poster Festival, Today Posters, Tehran
2009 3rd Prize of Typography Poster Festival, Today Posters, Tehran
2009 3rd Prize of Meybodi Logo Design Contest
2025 Slanted Magazine #44—Type Fashion
2024 International Assembly, International Poster Book 9
2024 Bi-Scriptual—Second Edition, a book on multilingual graphic design, Published by niggli
2022 Stir World Magazine, Graphic design in Iran: A journey of evolution and practices shaping the future
2022 It’s Nice That, Featuring book covers of Studio Melli
2022 It’s Nice That, Interview, article and featuring works of Studio Melli
2020 Signs and Seals: 100 Persian Logotypes, Typomania Festival, Moscow, Russia
2018 Bi-Scriptual, a book on multilingual graphic design, Published by niggli
2018 étapes Magaine, Paris, France
2017 Desk Magazine, NYC, U.S.A
2015 Komma Magazine, Germany
2015 Oriental Design Week, Turin, Italy
2014 Tasvir-e-Sal, Image of the Year, Tehran, Iran
2014 Golden Bee 11 Book, Moscow International Biennale of Graphic Design, Russia
2013 Silver Cypress 3, The 3rd Biennial of Iranian Graphic Designers Society, Tehran, Iran
2013 Creative Roots Blog, UK
2013 Tasvir-e-Sal, Image of the Year, Tehran, Iran
2012 Right-To-Left, Contemporary Arabic and Iranian Visual Culture, Berlin, Germany
2012 Moscow Global Biennale of Graphic Design Golden Bee 10, Moscow, Russia
2011 Arabesque 2, Graphic Design from the Arab World and Persia, Berlin, Germany
2011 Divarkoob, 98 Posters by 51 Iranian Graphic Designers, Moscow, Russia
2011 The Individual is Always Exception, In Memoriam of Morteza Momayez, Tehran, Iran
2010 [EYE] Book series published by Mahriz institute for culture and art, Tehran, Iran
2010 The sixth Today Posters, Asma-ul-Husna Typography Festival, Tehran, Iran
2009 The fifth Today Posters, Asma-ul-Husna Typography Festival, Tehran, Iran
2007 Bulb Magazine, Germany
2024 International Assembly, International Poster Book 9
2024 Bi-Scriptual—Second Edition, a book on multilingual graphic design, Published by niggli
2022 Stir World Magazine, Graphic design in Iran: A journey of evolution and practices shaping the future
2022 It’s Nice That, Featuring book covers of Studio Melli
2022 It’s Nice That, Interview, article and featuring works of Studio Melli
2020 Signs and Seals: 100 Persian Logotypes, Typomania Festival, Moscow, Russia
2018 Bi-Scriptual, a book on multilingual graphic design, Published by niggli
2018 étapes Magaine, Paris, France
2017 Desk Magazine, NYC, U.S.A
2015 Komma Magazine, Germany
2015 Oriental Design Week, Turin, Italy
2014 Tasvir-e-Sal, Image of the Year, Tehran, Iran
2014 Golden Bee 11 Book, Moscow International Biennale of Graphic Design, Russia
2013 Silver Cypress 3, The 3rd Biennial of Iranian Graphic Designers Society, Tehran, Iran
2013 Creative Roots Blog, UK
2013 Tasvir-e-Sal, Image of the Year, Tehran, Iran
2012 Right-To-Left, Contemporary Arabic and Iranian Visual Culture, Berlin, Germany
2012 Moscow Global Biennale of Graphic Design Golden Bee 10, Moscow, Russia
2011 Arabesque 2, Graphic Design from the Arab World and Persia, Berlin, Germany
2011 Divarkoob, 98 Posters by 51 Iranian Graphic Designers, Moscow, Russia
2011 The Individual is Always Exception, In Memoriam of Morteza Momayez, Tehran, Iran
2010 [EYE] Book series published by Mahriz institute for culture and art, Tehran, Iran
2010 The sixth Today Posters, Asma-ul-Husna Typography Festival, Tehran, Iran
2009 The fifth Today Posters, Asma-ul-Husna Typography Festival, Tehran, Iran
2007 Bulb Magazine, Germany
2026 Schriftbilder; Contemporary Iranian Graphic Design, Kunsthafen, Cologne
2025 Creative Graphics, South Korea
2025 2024 2023 2021 2020 2018 2018 2017 2016 2015 2015 2015 2014 2014 2013 2013 2013 2012 Demo Festival, NL, UK, US, DE
International Assembly, International Poster Exhibition, Glasgow
2024 Lorem Ipsum, MidWest, Amsterdam
Call me ornament 2, Direktorenhaus, Berlin, Germnay
Group Exhibition of Students and Teachers of Kherad Art School, A Art Gallery, Tehran
Signs and Seals: 100 Persian Logotypes, Typomania Festival, Moscow, Russia
Huroof, Explorations in Contemporary Typography, Dubai, UAE
TYPE+TEXT International Poster Exhibition, Dydo poster gallery, Cracovia
TYPE+TEXT International Poster Exhibition, Year of the Avant-garde, Museum of the City of Lodz, Poland
Authoritative Design, 100 contemporary Iranian posters, Lebanese American University
CHIRAN, The International Invitational Typography Poster Exhibition, China, Iran
Oriental Design Week, Turin, Italy
Tasvir -e- Sal, Image of the Year
Golden Bee 11, Moscow International Biennale of Graphic Design, Russia
Tasvir-e-Sal | Image of the Year
The 6th China International Poster Biennial
Silver Cypress 3, The 3rd Biennial of Iranian Graphic Designers Society
Tasvir-e-Sal, Image of the Year
Right to Left, Graphic Design from the Arab World and Iran, Berlin, Germany
2025 Creative Graphics, South Korea
2025 2024 2023 2021 2020 2018 2018 2017 2016 2015 2015 2015 2014 2014 2013 2013 2013 2012 Demo Festival, NL, UK, US, DE
International Assembly, International Poster Exhibition, Glasgow
2024 Lorem Ipsum, MidWest, Amsterdam
Call me ornament 2, Direktorenhaus, Berlin, Germnay
Group Exhibition of Students and Teachers of Kherad Art School, A Art Gallery, Tehran
Signs and Seals: 100 Persian Logotypes, Typomania Festival, Moscow, Russia
Huroof, Explorations in Contemporary Typography, Dubai, UAE
TYPE+TEXT International Poster Exhibition, Dydo poster gallery, Cracovia
TYPE+TEXT International Poster Exhibition, Year of the Avant-garde, Museum of the City of Lodz, Poland
Authoritative Design, 100 contemporary Iranian posters, Lebanese American University
CHIRAN, The International Invitational Typography Poster Exhibition, China, Iran
Oriental Design Week, Turin, Italy
Tasvir -e- Sal, Image of the Year
Golden Bee 11, Moscow International Biennale of Graphic Design, Russia
Tasvir-e-Sal | Image of the Year
The 6th China International Poster Biennial
Silver Cypress 3, The 3rd Biennial of Iranian Graphic Designers Society
Tasvir-e-Sal, Image of the Year
Right to Left, Graphic Design from the Arab World and Iran, Berlin, Germany
Design within Limitations, Interview, article and featuring works, TRCC2024 Creative Coding and Perso-Arabic Typography, TRCC
2022 It’s Nice That, Interview, article and featuring works of Studio Melli
2018 étapes Magaine, Paris, France
2017 Desk Magazine, NYC, U.S.A
2015 Roozrang Magazine, Tehran
2022 It’s Nice That, Interview, article and featuring works of Studio Melli
2018 étapes Magaine, Paris, France
2017 Desk Magazine, NYC, U.S.A
2015 Roozrang Magazine, Tehran
Graphic Matters, Current Characters III, Featuring Studio Melli, Breda, The Netherlands
Graphic Design Fair 2025
Typographic Nights, Page Not Found, The Hague, Netherlands
Headstand, No—Land Collective, Studio Melli, Tehran + The Hague, Netherlands
Lost Garden, Iaac Global Summer School, Studio Melli, Tehran Platform, NatGeo Farsi, Tehran
Headstand, Graphic Design Week, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran
About Payvar Foundation Visual Identity, Kaarmaann House, Tehran
From typography to the five senses, Iranian National Museum of Science and Technology, Tehran
Type & Visual Culture, Iaac Global Summer School, AB-ANBAR Gallery, Tehran
Public Presentation of Kherad Institute Visual Identity, Tehran
Third Place Identity, Maks Projects, khanesh Institute, Tehran
The 4th Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
Multi-disciplinary Graphic Design, Vije School of Visual Communications, Tehran
Graphic Design Fair 2025
Typographic Nights, Page Not Found, The Hague, Netherlands
Headstand, No—Land Collective, Studio Melli, Tehran + The Hague, Netherlands
Lost Garden, Iaac Global Summer School, Studio Melli, Tehran Platform, NatGeo Farsi, Tehran
Headstand, Graphic Design Week, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran
About Payvar Foundation Visual Identity, Kaarmaann House, Tehran
From typography to the five senses, Iranian National Museum of Science and Technology, Tehran
Type & Visual Culture, Iaac Global Summer School, AB-ANBAR Gallery, Tehran
Public Presentation of Kherad Institute Visual Identity, Tehran
Third Place Identity, Maks Projects, khanesh Institute, Tehran
The 4th Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
Multi-disciplinary Graphic Design, Vije School of Visual Communications, Tehran
Type & Limitations, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Experimental—Modular Type Design, Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Experimental Type Design, Graphic Design Fair, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Typographic Narratives, Studio Melli, Tehran and The Hague, The Netherlands
Language, Culture, Type, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Experimental Graphic/Type Design Workshop, Kherad Institute, Studio Melli, Tehran
Visual Identity Design Workshop, Studio Melli, Tehran
Scan—Type—Print, Typography Workshop, Studio Melli, Tehran
Typography Workshop, Studio Melli, Tehran
Multi-disciplinary Graphic Design, Vije School of Visual Communications, Tehran
Experimental—Modular Type Design, Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Experimental Type Design, Graphic Design Fair, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Typographic Narratives, Studio Melli, Tehran and The Hague, The Netherlands
Language, Culture, Type, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Experimental Graphic/Type Design Workshop, Kherad Institute, Studio Melli, Tehran
Visual Identity Design Workshop, Studio Melli, Tehran
Scan—Type—Print, Typography Workshop, Studio Melli, Tehran
Typography Workshop, Studio Melli, Tehran
Multi-disciplinary Graphic Design, Vije School of Visual Communications, Tehran