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Algarve

A destination brand for the Algarve, built from what people travel there for: rock, sea and sand.

Role
Brand identity designer
Industry
Tourism, Portugal
Scope
Symbols, wordmark, palette, type, applications
Year
2019
Challenge

The Algarve tourism bureau promotes the region to travellers, the travel trade and the media. It needed one identity that could speak to all of them.

Approach

Three hand-cut symbols for rock, sea and sand, each coloured from the coastline itself, with Code Pro for a clean, modern voice.

Outcome

Symbols, wordmark, palette and type, with applications from posters to merchandise.

Scene 01 · The idea

Rock. Sea. Sand.

Golden cliffs, turquoise water and warm dunes are what people remember about the Algarve. Each became a hand-cut symbol, slightly rough at the edges like the coast itself.

Side by side, the three symbols read as the whole region in one glance.

The three symbols.
Shipped The three symbols.
Each colour is pulled from a real place on the coast.
Shipped Each colour is pulled from a real place on the coast.
Scene 02 · Colour

Pulled from the coast.

Rock orange, sea teal and dune sand, grounded by a deep night plum.

Rock#EF542B
Sea#11BD9E
Sand#F5D7AB
Night#21162B
Scene 03 · Type

Code Pro.

A geometric sans with a friendly, modern voice for a region that is both old and new.

Code Pro and the wordmark.
Shipped Code Pro and the wordmark.
Scene 04 · In the world

On the coast, in your hands.

From cliff-top imagery to merchandise, the symbols travel well.

Destination imagery with the lockup.
Shipped Destination imagery with the lockup.
Merchandise.
Shipped Merchandise.
Street poster.
Mockup Street poster.
The visitor map, on the beach.
Mockup The visitor map, on the beach.
Welcome lightbox in airport arrivals.
Mockup Welcome lightbox in airport arrivals.
Beach towel and tote on the sand.
Mockup Beach towel and tote on the sand.
Postcard set on azulejo tiles.
Mockup Postcard set on azulejo tiles.

Algarve.
2019.

The end of this movie

Rock, sea and sand. The whole coast in three shapes.

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