Brand identity & art direction

Solstice

A soulful luxury skincare identity, where zen-like stillness meets high performance.

Project
Solstice
Sector
Skincare · Lifestyle
Services
Strategy · Identity · Art direction · Packaging
Role
Identity & art direction
Hero — Solstice identity

The challenge

Skincare branding defaults to the clinical — sterile whites, lab-coat blues, ingredient charts. The challenge was to build a skincare brand that feels serene and soulful instead, without losing its premium, high-performance credibility.

It needed to feel like a ritual, not a routine.

"Moving away from clinical — toward something deeply meditative."

The idea

I built a serene, ethereal visual language around the essence of golden hour — a palette of frosted amber, sand beiges and soft golden light.

A vertical, typography-led logo, atmospheric imagery and the premium feel of frosted glassware — minimalist, textural, and calm.

The identity system

A complete, considered system — logotype, palette, type and a signature fourth element — built to feel cohesive across every touchpoint.

Logotype / wordmark

Logotype

A vertical, typography-led mark — quiet, premium, architectural.

#562C2C
#697268
#F6DFBB

Palette

Frosted amber, sand beige and soft golden light. The warmth of golden hour, not a lab.

Typography

AaVertical, editorial, still. Aa Bb Cc 0123

In the wild

A quiet, textural world across packaging, glassware and a negative-space social language.

Frosted glassware
Packaging
Secondary range
Editorial imagery
Social
Lifestyle

Why it works

Beyond the look, here's what this identity is built to do and the bar I hold every brand I design to.

Soulful

Not clinical

A serene, meditative world that breaks every skincare-sterility cliché.

Premium

Through restraint

Negative space, texture and golden light do the luxury talking.

Calm

A ritual, not a routine

Designed to feel like a quiet moment, every time it's picked up.

"Where zen-like stillness meets high performance."

— Karya, on SOLSTICE

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