The Ripple Collective is the home of Slash, Fabrica, Fount, Oxalá and Central, brands inspired by each other and constantly feeding off each other.
It’s a sum of all their different parts, people, ideas and magic.
Welcome to the Ripple Collective, an impact orientated community made up of a family of projects, which are in turn all powered by a family of people. The Ripple Collective is a sum of many different and diverse parts that ultimately takes shape as a group of organizations doing good stuff in Abu Dhabi.
The Ripple Collective is who we are and what we love - who we are is complicated, mainly because of what we love: Design, architecture, making, cycling, good ideas, concept stores, the saxophone riff in Careless Whisper by George Michael, our kids, running, Netflix binges, Aesop, cake, Friends re-runs, being inspired, being challenged, field trips, and way way way more.
We love each of these different parts and especially how they fit together. The Ripple is watching those things that we are passionate about spread and have impact, the Collective is seeing the many different passions and people in one place.
Ripple Collective is fully based in Abu Dhabi - the studio, the people and the energy.
Abu Dhabi is home and if you’re ever in town then consider this your invitation to stop in, have a coffee and let us tell you why this city and emirate means as much as it does to us.
The Ripple Collective is made up of:
Slash is a strategic design studio.
We think for purpose and impact, driven by our natural makers spirit.
Fabrica is a makers platform.
It’s where custom designs come to life in physical objects, where we combine our passion for stories with getting our hands dirty, and making stuff that matters.
Fount is Abu Dhabi’s curated concept store.
It is a place to celebrate good design and gather around a love of form and function.
Oxalá is a product design brand.
We are constantly inspired by this land we live in, the UAE. When that meets our passion for contemporary design, we create objects that tell stories.
Designed and produced by Fabrica. Sold by Fount.
We.
We use the word “we” a lot because we are a collective of people; designers, entrepreneurs, architects, creatives, triathletes, film geeks, mothers, fathers, thinkers, doers…
Slash is a sum of many parts, and the most important parts, the parts that make the whole thing work, are our people.
We’re held together by our shared values and beliefs, not just around work but around life, the main belief being that what we do matters.
We love solving problems and design is our weapon of choice. It’s how we interpret the world and how we try to make the world a little bit better tomorrow than it is today.
What we do doesn’t define us. Who we are defines us.
Central is an exhibition company.
The art of getting things where they need to be.
You know what.
Our most valuable conversations are the ones that start with “you know what would be cool?” They always end somewhere interesting.
And that’s where we’re always trying to get - somewhere interesting via good ideas and good design.
The “you know what would be cool” question lets our possibilities wander to some good places and those places are usually where the biggest problems find their answers.
