About Elbotik
Elbotik is an Abu Dhabi design studio and brand. We turn Gulf lived culture into things you can wear, collect and give.
We started in 2016 as a concept store — a small place for products you could not find anywhere else. Somewhere along the way we stopped looking for other people's work and started making our own.
Now we design and produce everything in-house from M39 Studios in Mina Zayed: graphic tees, jerseys, enamel pins, stickers, socks, shoe charms, neon, and the occasional object nobody asked for. The references come from here — childhood cartoons, pickup trucks, arcade machines, Arabic phrases you only really understand if you grew up around them. If you get the joke, it was made for you.
Trusted to tell the story
Cultural institutions bring us in when Emirati and Gulf culture needs interpreting properly:
- Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi — Al Hosn Festival, Maritime Heritage Festival, Liwa Village
- Manarat Al Saadiyat
- Zayed National Museum
- NYU Abu Dhabi
- Abu Dhabi Royal Equestrian Arts
Ten years of this, and it still gets us when someone picks up a pin and says I remember this.
Two sides of the same studio
The brand. elbotik.com and our studio space in Mina Zayed. Limited runs, mostly. When they are gone, they are gone.
The studio. Full-service design and production of custom merchandise for institutions, brands and events — concept through to delivery.
Find us
M39 Studios, Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.