Work 07
Brand Identity
Hospitality
2021

Paradiso Hotel,
Where luxury
finds its mark.

A full brand identity for a luxury hotel venture. Built around a refined mark, an elevated typographic voice and a system that holds its composure across every touchpoint.

Client
Paradiso Hotel
Scope
Brand Identity
Tools
Illustrator · Photoshop
Year
2021
Paradiso Hotel brand identity cover
01 · The Brief

A luxury hotel that needed a face.

Paradiso is a luxury hotel brand built around the idea that hospitality should feel effortless and memorable. The brief called for a brand identity that could hold its own against international hospitality benchmarks while feeling distinctive and considered.

The challenge was finding a mark that carried elegance without leaning on cliche. No arbitrary serif crests, no tired monograms. The identity had to feel contemporary and premium in equal measure.

The name Paradiso draws from the Italian for paradise, which set the direction clearly. The brand needed to evoke warmth, exclusivity and arrival as a feeling rather than a statement.

Every decision in the system needed to justify itself at the highest level of scrutiny, from the proportions of the lettermark to the weight of the supporting typefaces.

"A hotel brand is a promise made before the guest even arrives. The mark carries that promise."
02 · The Mark

A symbol built from restraint.

The logomark was developed from a combination of geometric precision and optical correction. The letterform at its core is engineered to sit with authority at any size, from a hotel keycard to a large-format facade sign.

Multiple directions were explored before landing on a form that felt both original and immediately recognisable as belonging to a premium hospitality context.

The accompanying wordmark uses a custom-spaced setting of a refined serif to balance the mark with the full brand name. The relationship between symbol and type was carefully tuned for both horizontal and stacked configurations.

The result is a lockup that functions across print, digital, signage and embroidery without losing coherence or presence.

Paradiso Hotel logomark presentation
Logo construction
Logo variations
Logo on dark background
03 · Brand System

Colour, type and the spaces between.

Bordeaux #3B0006
Forest #08442A
Gold #DBB177
White #FFFFFF
Aa
Collingar
Primary · Serif Display
Headlines · Wordmark · Print
Aa
Josefin Sans
Secondary · Geometric Sans
Body · UI · Signage
Aa
Allura
Accent · Script
Invitations · Taglines · Menus
04 · In Application

The brand across surfaces.

A luxury hotel brand lives or dies in the details. Business cards, stationery, key cards, packaging and digital surfaces all had to carry the same level of considered restraint.

Each application was designed to feel like an extension of the same thought, not a re-application of a logo onto a template. Spacing, material feel and hierarchy were all controlled.

Brand stationery mockup
Business card mockup
Key card and packaging
Brand print collateral
Signage application
Brand collateral detail
Hospitality mockup
Brand on dark surface
05 · Outcome

A system that holds its ground.

Reflection

Paradiso came together as one of those rare projects where the brief and the execution feel completely aligned. The mark earned its proportions through iteration rather than assumption. The colour system is restrained enough to feel premium but warm enough to feel welcoming, which for a hotel brand is exactly the right balance. Working at this level of detail on a hospitality identity was a real study in how much a single well-resolved mark can carry.

01
Primary Logomark
Symbol + wordmark · all configurations
02
Brand Colour System
Primary + secondary palette · CMYK, RGB, HEX
03
Typography Scale
Display + body typeface pairing
04
Stationery Suite
Business card · letterhead · envelope
05
Hospitality Collateral
Key card · packaging · signage
06
Brand Guidelines
Usage rules · clear space · don'ts

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