Role
Branding, Creative Direction, Visual Identity, Web Design
Deliverable
Logo, Brand Guidelines, Visual Identity System, Marketing Collateral, Website
Year
2024
LUXE Spa & Wellness is built on a belief that real luxury is personal. The identity needed to reflect that — not the sanitised minimalism of clinical wellness, not the maximalism of lifestyle brands. We built the system around the art of inner peace: a tulip mark that encodes care and renewal, a gold and cream palette used with restraint, an illustration series that evokes sensation rather than describing it, and a packaging line that carries the spa ritual into daily life.
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Proposal
LUXE Spa & Wellness offers premium treatments built on a single belief: that genuine care is personal, not procedural. The brief was to build an identity that communicates that — without defaulting to the clinical sterility or bohemian excess that dominates the wellness category. The guiding concept became the art of inner peace. Not as tagline, but as design criteria. Every element of the system was held to it: does this feel considered? Does it create stillness, or does it interrupt it?
The LUXE logotype is built on a high-contrast serif wordmark anchored by a custom tulip-shaped U — the quiet centre of the identity. The sharp typography communicates precision; the softened floral form introduces warmth. The U carries a second meaning: it places the client at the centre of the experience. The tulip encodes renewal and the gentle unfolding of care.
Two overlapping circles govern the tulip construction. The U from the brand name becomes the floral form — typographic and personal at once. The mark reads clearly at small scale on a product label and at full scale on an environmental installation.
The palette uses 3 tones: deep charcoal (#151515), warm gold (#b0903d), and soft cream (#fffef2). The gold is used deliberately — not as decoration, but as a signal of value at specific moments in the system.
Marcellus handles headlines — a refined serif with classical proportions and quiet authority. Arial handles body copy — neutral, functional, unobtrusive. Luxurious Script appears sparingly on product labels and accent moments, adding warmth without sentimentality. The system moves between these registers without losing coherence.
Marcellus provides the brand's authoritative display voice. Arial keeps supporting copy readable and calm. Luxurious Script is used with restraint — its warmth is earned by its rarity in the system.
6 icons form the brand's visual vocabulary — each drawn from the physical and sensory rituals of the spa. Waves for breath and calm. A singing bowl for balance. A spiral for the spine's release. A candle for presence. Two hands around a lotus for the act of care. The product bottles as daily ritual. Rendered in the signature gold with open linework, each icon communicates function and feeling at once.
The illustration series turns the brand's icon forms into full-scale experiential posters. Each pairs a single symbol — cut through as a window into the spa environment — with a short line of copy. The posters don't explain what LUXE offers. They make you feel it.
3 posters anchor the series. BREATH pairs the wave icon with a still basin scene. SPINE sets the spiral against a candlelit massage room. BODY frames the bowl icon around a close portrait of touch, with the line 'a quiet return to yourself.' Each functions as brand art and as an invitation.
The LUXE product line extends the brand into the client's daily routine. Clean vessels, gold hardware, and the signature logotype make each bottle a considered object — not a commodity. The amenity collection and the premium retail range share the same visual logic at different price points.
The amenity collection covers hand wash, conditioner, shampoo, and body wash — each in the cream and gold palette with the Luxurious Script wordmark as label. Designed to hold the brand's register at every scale, from a full retail bottle to a small in-spa dispenser.
The premium retail range — moisturizing lotion, body oil, serum — uses frosted and white glass with brushed gold hardware. The labeling is typographic and restrained. The collection bridges the spa experience with the client's home ritual without over-designing either.
Business cards, brochures, digital platforms, and environmental applications all draw from the same visual logic. The cream and gold palette, the tulip mark, and the layered typographic system hold consistently — from an ivory business card to a scrollable digital campaign. The brand doesn't shift register between formats.
Business cards distill the identity to ivory stock, clean typography, and subtle floral corner details. The brand brochure carries the full editorial language — bold serif headlines, atmospheric photography, and the flowing script mark. Digital applications translate this into intimate scrollable formats for social and mobile. Each touchpoint feels like the same place.