Mountain Town Hotel

A whole mountain town in a single pine cone.

Client
Toppyco
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Overview

Pho Nui, or Mountain Town, is a hotel and restaurant set among pine-covered hills.

FreshBrand designed the hotel’s logo, identity system and website around luxury, simplicity, warmth and refinement, so that guests recognize the mountain town in every small detail of their stay.

Inspiration

Where did the idea start?

What guests take home is the memory of the mountain town

Sunset over the pine forest, mist on the hills, dry pine cones lying on a carpet of needles. A mountain town does not need to be explained; it only needs to be recalled.

The pine cone was chosen because it is small and familiar, and carries the climate, the scent and the memory of a place.

Mountain Town Hotel brand identity

Symbol

How did the idea take shape?

A hand-drawn pine cone

The symbol was sketched by hand on grid paper, then reduced to rows of overlapping triangular scales. Set inside a circle, the pine cone becomes a seal, formal enough for a hotel and warm enough for a place to come back to.

A slender serif typeface pairs with a deep red, so that luxury comes from restraint rather than display.

Mountain Town Hotel brand identity

Experience

Where do customers meet the brand?

Luxury lives in what guests hold in their hands

Room cards, card sleeves, shampoo bottles, cream jars, bath towels: the smallest objects are where guests meet the brand most often. The pine cone appears just enough on red and white, as tidy as a room that has just been made up.

Mountain Town Hotel brand identity
Mountain Town Hotel brand identity
Mountain Town Hotel brand identity
Mountain Town Hotel brand identity
Mountain Town Hotel brand identity
Mountain Town Hotel brand identity

Website

How does the brand live on screen?

The mountain town, before you arrive

The website opens with exactly what guests come for: the hotel building, the rooms and the hills at dawn. Cream and red tie it to the identity system, while room information, the restaurant and online booking are within easy reach.

Mountain Town Hotel website

Guests come for the mountain town. The brand helps them take it home.

FreshBrand team

  • Trần Anh Tú — Creative Director, Project Director, Design
  • Hải Anh — Design
  • Kiều Nga — Design
  • Thanh Thuận — Design

Project

  • ClientToppyco
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