Marda Design:
Marda Design:
Where contemporary art, Palestinian land, and lived memory meet.
About the Artist: Rami Afifi
Rami Afifi is a Palestinian-Egyptian graphic designer and artist whose work draws from memory, culture, and contemporary visual language. Having lived across Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, his practice is shaped by movement, diaspora, and everyday life in the Arab world.
His visual style is bold and playful, rooted in nostalgia and informed by cartoons, comics, skate culture, hip-hop, architecture, food, and regional pop culture. Rami has contributed to the Arab world’s street culture and art scene while working both independently and in collaboration with global brands.
A Design Rooted in Return
Rami Afifi’s design for the Marda bottle is inspired by archival images of Palestinian refugees holding the keys to their homes — objects kept across generations with the hope of return.
The key on the label references ownership, memory, and an unbroken relationship to land, even in displacement.The key is both personal and collective and rather than treating it as a symbol frozen in the past, the design places it firmly in the present, a living demand for LAND BACK.
Marda Single-Estate Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Buy NowOnly 972 bottles were produced from this harvest. This single-estate extra virgin olive oil comes from Marda village in Palestine, made by farmer Jalal Hufash, whose family has lived on and worked this land for over a hundred years. His olive trees range from just ten years old to more than a thousand, some planted by Jalal himself, others inherited. Grown on rain-fed, organically farmed land and harvested by hand, the olives are cold-pressed the same day, resulting in a balanced oil with a mild body and a gentle tang at the finish.
Rami's Work
The Special Label Series brought together 6 designers from across SWANA, each contributing a distinct artistic voice to our olive oil collection. The project celebrated our shared visual languages, regional interconnectedness, and the cultural echoes that move across borders and generations.
Each designer created a one-of-a-kind label, turning every bottle into a collectible piece of regional design. With every bottle sold from their edition, 10% will be donated to a community-based initiative or NGO chosen by the artist.
Every label carried a personal connection — a thread as meaningful as the artwork itself.
The series became a meeting point between art and agriculture, honoring the craft behind the oil and the creativity behind the design.