Genever is a dry gin production company with a rich backstory. In 1925,
in Hampshire, England, Audrey Cooper started making her gin from the
comfort of her house. She made her distillery in her household and
Audrey's gin was a hit among her friends and family. She was an expert
with flavours, her gin being infused with lemongrass, clementine or
cucumber. Tragically, after WW2 the distillery was completely damaged.
She decided to pass along her story and her recipes. So, in 2022 the
Genever gin company was opened to honour Audrey and her unique recipes.
Challenges & Objectives
Gin flavours nowadays are almost all the same, no matter what
brand you buy.
There is a lack of creative and modern designs throughout other
gin brands.
Try to honour Audrey Cooper, and bring the customer back to the
1920s.
The lack of imaginative and unique marketing makes gin brands less
memorable.
Solutions
A brand that brings back old-style flavours into contemporary
times.
Create a much simpler and cleaner look, to stand out from the
competition.
Incorporate elegant nuances but also try to keep it modern.
Bring the brand to life with eye-catching and out-there posters.
Workflow
In order to get a more clear picture of where my brand is going, I
started by imagining a back story that was the basis for all my design
decisions going forward. With that done, I began to define the visual
style by creating a mood board.
Next came the colour palette, which I based on the mood board. The
colours are distinctive from any other gin brand I've seen before, and
give a classy but modern look to the design.
After having a sense of the direction in which the brand is going, I
went ahead and started working on the logo. First, I looked for a
typeface that fit the esthetic, manipulated it and arrived at a
logotype I liked. I also created a logo mark to go alongside the main
logo. I started experimenting with a second typeface that would serve
as the main font for the copy.
I also experimented with the colour palette and the typeface to
created some graphics that later I used for the bottle labels, and
looked for what type of images the logo fit best.
The last step I did was to place the designs previously created on
mockups to place the brand in the real world.