Riverade Hotel & Winery is a tourism project by the Arade river near Silves in the portuguese region Algarve. It is located in a 50ha property and integrates hotel, vineyard and organic horticulture.

I was responsible for the naming of the project and my creative process took into consideration requirements such as the Arade river reference, the international perspective of the project – concerning the investor as well as the final target audience – and an effective registration of the brand.

I decided to join “River” and “Arade” (River + Arade = Riverade).

For the design of the logo and branding, I featured several elements of considerable importance and relevance in the project, both in the logo and the selected color palette.

The logo represents a glass of wine – the vineyard and the wine production are pillars of the project – crossed by a negative space R-shaped Arade river (R being the initial letter of Riverade) and with the Castle of Silves – National Monument which is one of the area’s main tourist attractions – at the top

The selected color palette focuses on elements such as:
• Grés de Silves – the geological formation from the Triassic of Portugal, composed of clay and sandstone, a sedimentary rock abundant in the region and markedly present in the local landscape;
• Castle of Silves (built with Grés de Silves);
• The vine;
• Local flora.