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Anna Paula Martinelli's Al Mar Suites Logo presents a sophisticated visual identity system executed in a refined warm taupe or cocoa brown hue approaching burnt umber or raw umber with subtle cool und
Anna Paula Martinelli's Logo for a hospitality property materializes through dimensional letterforms in warm, earthy brown tones mounted upon a pristine cream-white wall, where the characters AL MAR a
Al Mar Suites Logo by Anna Paula Martinelli
Al Mar Suites Logo by Anna Paula Martinelli
Al Mar Suites Logo by Anna Paula Martinelli

Iron Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design · 2025

Al Mar Suites Logo

by Anna Paula Martinelli

  • A' Design Award 2025 Iron Winner in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
  • Awarded April 15, 2025
  • CLIENT: Anna Martinelli
  • Estimated Number of Design Views: 10,236
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About Al Mar Suites Logo

The Al Mar Suites logo is essentially about sustainability, modernity and simplicity of this boutique hotel located in Brazil. The straight and contemporary lines match the hotel's architecture, and combined with the organic design that refers to the waves of the sea, this logo is clean, direct and effectively conveys the feeling of calm and lightness of this Brazilian beach. The sand color was also chosen to allude to the environment and to match all the decorative and aesthetic elements of the hotel.

Anna Paula Martinelli's Al Mar Suites Logo represents a masterful achievement in contemporary hospitality brand identity design, demonstrating how disciplined formal restraint and intelligent typographic architecture can generate layered meaning and emotional resonance within the compressed visual field of logo design, the work positioning itself within the broader trajectory of twenty-first-century minimalist identity systems that privilege essential form, geometric clarity, and meaningful reduction over decorative elaboration or illustrative literalism, drawing upon modernist design heritage extending through mid-century Swiss typography and Bauhaus geometric rationalism while inflecting these austere traditions with organic counterpoint and gestural warmth that humanizes the composition and prevents excessive geometric coldness, the technical execution demonstrates sophisticated understanding of typographic proportion, optical weight distribution, and spatial interval calibration, with the geometric sans-serif letterforms displaying refined stroke relationships and terminal treatments that ensure legibility across scale while maintaining distinctive character, the integration of the sinuous wave element within the "mar" sequence represents a particularly accomplished formal strategy, introducing organic movement and maritime association without resorting to explicit pictorial representation of waves or water, this abstracted gesture functioning simultaneously as letterform component and symbolic carrier, the wave's fluid calligraphic quality creating productive tension against the surrounding geometric severity, suggesting how opposites can achieve synthesis rather than mere juxtaposition, the compositional architecture employing bilateral symmetry as organizational principle while preventing static rigidity through the dynamic horizontal movement of the wave element and the strategic corner breaks in the frame that introduce asymmetric releases, the monochromatic palette selection of warm neutral brown against white demonstrates chromatic sophistication, avoiding expected maritime blues while still evoking coastal warmth through earth-toned elegance, this color restraint projecting premium positioning and timeless refinement while ensuring maximum versatility across diverse application contexts from architectural signage to digital interfaces to printed collateral, the corner-bracketed frame establishes visual territory and architectural presence without complete enclosure, the open corners preventing the composition from feeling contained or rigid, instead suggesting invitation and accessibility appropriate for hospitality sector application, the generous letterspacing in the "SUITES" baseline text provides grounding horizontal stability and enhances readability while the vertical stacking of the three text elements creates clear hierarchy and scannable information structure, the overall system balancing memorability with restraint, distinctiveness with versatility, contemporary sensibility with enduring classicism, achieving that rare synthesis where brand identity transcends mere identification function to become genuine visual design accomplishment, viewers might contemplate how this identity system negotiates the challenge of conveying premium hospitality positioning while maintaining welcoming approachability, how geometric form language can carry emotional warmth without abandoning structural clarity, how abstraction can evoke specific place associations without pictorial literalism, and how disciplined limitation of formal means can paradoxically expand rather than restrict communicative range and expressive possibility.

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Unique Properties
Based on the concept of this sustainable boutique hotel in Brazil, the creation of its logo embraisses its main characteristics. The color refers to the beach, and also the feeling of comfort and simplicity of the inn. Combining the straight and simplified modern lines of the inn's architecture with the sea wave, makes the hotel's logo playful and youthful but still serious and contemporary. The main objective is to convey the feeling of finding new experiences and a high standard of quality.
Dimensions & Packaging
Logo Development, applicable to any material.
Tags
logo, graphic design, beach logo, brazilian logo, hotel, hotel logo
Production Technology
For this logo, everything started with a hand drawing, to understand the typography style created and whether the combination of straight lines would work with the wave design. After that, the design was vectorized and all the alignment and framing was adjusted so that the logo was completely symmetrical.
Design Challenge
The biggest challenge of this project was to create something that made sense within the context of the hotel’s location without actually knowing the city in which it is built. Being 2400 km away from the hotel, advanced research into the city and regional peculiarities was of great importance in uniting the hotel’s concept with its beach of origin.
Project Duration
The project started in january 2023 in Curitiba, for the hotel in Praia do Forte. The hotel opened in December 2023.
Operation Flow
The logo has a simple shape and is easy to apply. It can be used in countless ways and easily understood by the public.
Research
For this project, the research needed to be done online and with interviews with the hotel partners. It was also necessary to work with an analysis of the architectural project in progress, as well as items from the initial inspiration panel to create a unified communication throughout the structure. The creation was made with the active participation of the partners who were in Bahia. The main objective was to create a logo that was clean, with a modern look and yet with the beach atmosphere of the region.
Inspiration
The inspiration of this project was the sand and the calm waves of Praia do Forte, beach where the hotel is build. The modernity and simplicity of the hotel's architecture and decoration were also combined in the creation of the project.
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