Building a restaurant identity around elegance, presence, and human connection.
La Belle Étoile was created as a refined hospitality brand for central London, built to express atmosphere, attract the right audience, and turn a new restaurant into a place people would want to enter, remember, and return to.
Elysion Retreats. Rebranding a nature-led wellness experience
Challenges
Repositioning the retreat experience
Balancing wellness and premium hospitality
Creating emotional desire before the visit
Ideas
Escape through visual storytelling
Wellness with elegance
Touchpoints as part of the ritual
Results
A clearer retreat brand identity
Stronger emotional positioning
A consistent brand world
Premium guest perception
Elysion Retreats was a rebranding project for a nature-led hospitality and retreat experience. The goal was to create a visual identity that could express more than relaxation — it had to communicate restoration, privacy, mindful escape, and the feeling of entering a world shaped by nature.
The identity was built around the emotional idea of retreat as transformation. Deep greens, refined typography, immersive nature imagery, and restrained layouts work together to create a sense of stillness and depth. Every touchpoint was designed to support the same feeling — from printed materials and cards to social visuals and brand applications.
Key Ideas:
Nature as an emotional foundation
Retreat as transformation
Forest atmosphere translated into brand language
Guest touchpoints as part of the ritual
A visual system built for calm recognition
September 2022
The Forest became the brand’s emotional architecture
For Elysion Retreats, nature was not used only as a visual theme. The forest became the structure behind the entire identity, shaping the color palette, atmosphere, pacing, typography, and sense of escape.
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