I'm
ALMA
Strategy with soul.
Design with intention.
Strategy with soul.
Design with intention.
Strategy with soul. Design with intention.
ALMA is a creative studio focused on building brands that feel as intentional as they look — blending storytelling, atmosphere, and visual direction to create work that connects on a deeper level.
ALMA is a creative studio focused on building brands that feel as intentional as they look — blending storytelling, atmosphere, and visual direction to create work that connects on a deeper level.
ALMA is a creative studio focused on building brands that feel as intentional as they look — blending storytelling, atmosphere, and visual direction to create work that connects on a deeper level.
Alma Lemo
Creative director
Alma Lemo
Creative director
Alma is the founder and creative lead behind A Little Media Agency, blending storytelling, strategy, and visual direction to build brands that feel both intentional and emotionally resonant. With experience spanning hospitality, lifestyle, and creative industries, her work moves between branding, photography, digital design, and campaign development — always grounded in atmosphere, connection, and human experience.
Driven by the belief that the strongest brands don’t just communicate but feel, Alma approaches each project with a balance of strategy, intuition, and cinematic visual storytelling.
Alma is the founder and creative lead behind A Little Media Agency, blending storytelling, strategy, and visual direction to build brands that feel both intentional and emotionally resonant. With experience spanning hospitality, lifestyle, and creative industries, her work moves between branding, photography, digital design, and campaign development — always grounded in atmosphere, connection, and human experience.
Driven by the belief that the strongest brands don’t just communicate but feel, Alma approaches each project with a balance of strategy, intuition, and cinematic visual storytelling.
Fun fact: Alma’s brand strategy process usually begins with storytelling and ends with 47 open tabs, three colour palettes, and an existential crisis over fonts.
Fun fact: Alma’s brand strategy process usually begins with storytelling and ends with 47 open tabs, three colour palettes, and an existential crisis over fonts.
in good
company
in good
company
Here are some of the brands I've had the privilege to collaborate with.
Here are some of the brands I've had the privilege to collaborate with.
Stories don’t begin with language. They begin with what is felt.
Stories don’t begin with language. They begin with what is felt.
(1)
I was born in Bosnia, a country shaped by war, where silence was not always peace and stories were not always ours to tell. When my family immigrated to Canada, I did not yet speak the language, so I learned to read the world in other ways: in gesture, in image, in expression. I learned early that stories do not begin with language. They begin with what is felt.
I was born in Bosnia, a country shaped by war, where silence was not always peace and stories were not always ours to tell. When my family immigrated to Canada, I did not yet speak the language, so I learned to read the world in other ways: in gesture, in image, in expression. I learned early that stories do not begin with language. They begin with what is felt.
What was shown, and what was left unsaid.
Stories have the power to move, to reveal, to restore.
What was shown, and what was left unsaid.
(2)
In a quiet bookstore down the street, I would sit for hours tracing the panels of graphic novels, absorbing the cadence of stories told through shape and shadow, through what was shown and what was left unsaid. I could not yet speak fluently, but I could sense, and I could understand. Even then, I knew that stories had the power to move, to reveal, to restore.
In a quiet bookstore down the street, I would sit for hours tracing the panels of graphic novels, absorbing the cadence of stories told through shape and shadow, through what was shown and what was left unsaid. I could not yet speak fluently, but I could sense, and I could understand. Even then, I knew that stories had the power to move, to reveal, to restore.
A way to define truth in our own words.
A way to define truth in our own words.
(3)
In time, I found my voice, in English and in art. I became captivated by the ways we carry identity and emotion across mediums: the tone of a caption, the restraint of negative space, the quiet residue a photograph leaves behind. To me, storytelling has never been merely creative. It is a way to define truth in our own words, after generations of having it rewritten.
In time, I found my voice, in English and in art. I became captivated by the ways we carry identity and emotion across mediums: the tone of a caption, the restraint of negative space, the quiet residue a photograph leaves behind. To me, storytelling has never been merely creative. It is a way to define truth in our own words, after generations of having it rewritten.
My name is Alma. It means soul.
My name is Alma. It means soul.
(4)
Soul is the centre of everything I do. With more than eight years in marketing, communications and design, and a degree in professional communications, I work across creative direction, branding, photography and digital design. What I bring to every brand is what that bookstore taught me: people feel a story long before they can explain it. My work is to make sure what they feel is true. Today I live between Vancouver Island and the Balkans, and I have come to see the distance between them not as a divide, but as a bridge. Every story I tell begins there.
Soul is the centre of everything I do. With more than eight years in marketing, communications and design, and a degree in professional communications, I work across creative direction, branding, photography and digital design. What I bring to every brand is what that bookstore taught me: people feel a story long before they can explain it. My work is to make sure what they feel is true. Today I live between Vancouver Island and the Balkans, and I have come to see the distance between them not as a divide, but as a bridge. Every story I tell begins there.
LET’S WORK TOGETHER
Have a story worth telling? Let’s tell it beautifully, together.
Stories
Worth Telling
An occasional letter on storytelling, design and the work behind it. Thoughtful, unhurried and never inundating.*
Stories
Worth Telling
An occasional letter on storytelling, design and the work behind it. Thoughtful, unhurried and never inundating.*
©2026 A Little Media Agency. All Rights Reserved.
Stories
Worth Telling
An occasional letter on storytelling, design and the work behind it. Thoughtful, unhurried and never inundating.*
©2026 A Little Media Agency. All Rights Reserved.