ÉLANÉ Brand Identity Goal: Create a modern skincare brand designed specifically for melanin-rich ...ÉLANÉ Brand Identity Goal: Create a modern skincare brand designed specifically for melanin-rich ...
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ÉLANÉ Brand Identity
Goal: Create a modern skincare brand designed specifically for melanin-rich skin, positioned as minimal, refined, and premium.
Solution: Built a focused brand system centered on clarity and intention combining restrained typography, confident visual balance, and a minimal aesthetic that reflects both science and softness.
Impact: A differentiated skincare identity that speaks directly to melanin women and establishes a strong, premium presence in a crowded market.
Brand guidelines fail when someone tries to use them. The PDF is complete. But when a developer needs something the system didn't anticipate, there's no logic to extend from. A style guide documents what exists. A system tells you what to do next.
CREARA is a Spain-based architectural firm with a unique selling point: creating spaces that align with the lifestyles desired by young families.
With a premium, minimalist aesthetic, the firm stands out by avoiding cookie-cutter designs, instead creating bespoke solutions tailored to each client's specific needs.
Focusing primarily on young families, the visual identity is soft, modern, and sustainable.
The young-families angle is the tricky constraint here, since premium minimal usually gets read as slightly untouchable and families are the audience least inclined to want that. The softened wordmark and the warmer half of the palette look like where that gets absorbed. Was the...