Hel'arte

EF_04©20

year
2020
areas
  • Brand Refresh
  • Art Direction
where
SS

Context

Hel'arte is a restaurant that serves ice‑cream based dishes, its creations a mixture of art and food. The brand refresh set out to move its positioning from a place only for older couples to a young and more active audience on social networks.

From a place for older couples to a young audience that lives on social.

01 — Identity

A refreshed Hel'arte wordmark and a dimensional H monogram, set across a brighter palette.

A refreshed Hel'arte wordmark and a dimensional H monogram, set across a brighter palette.
Three versions of the Hel'arte H monogram on periwinkle

02 — Voice & lettering

We achieved this through cooler communication, more vivid colours and an interesting social media content strategy. The voice leans into ice‑cream puns, set in script lettering.

"Ice to meet you!" script lettering on turquoise
Hel'arte monogram on lilac beside a woman holding two ice-cream cones
A woman eating an ice-cream cone beside a bold E on mint

03 — Food as art

Dishes shot as the proposals they are: ice cream plated somewhere between dessert and art.

Dishes shot as the proposals they are: ice cream plated somewhere between dessert and art.
A plated ice-cream dish with sauce and lime, shared at a wooden table
A chocolate ice-cream cone in a teal cone against a peeling wall

04 — Social & applications

Social

The system carried into a social grid.

Applications

Digital screens, packaging and event posters.

Photography

Photography by Sam Portillo, Alejandro Avilés and Imanol Neira.

Hel'arte social grid mixing photos, patterns and the monogram
Hel'arte "I scream ice cream" lock screen on a tablet
Poster for the Exposición de El Pollo Loco event
Coatepeque ice-cream bar wrapper, closed and opened, on yellow
A phone showing a "Dog Friendly" Hel'arte post with a beagle, on mint
A woman in a bird-print dress and sunglasses against pastel shapes
A woman sitting with an ice-cream sundae

Art you eat before it melts.

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