Below: Before and After Images in Slide Show, Summary, Credits
VonSalis’ customers are spoilt for choice: the Graubünden wine merchants stock 2,300 wines from a great variety of wine brands sourced from all over the world. Their range also includes home-grown vintages produced from grapes cultivated in the traditional “Bündner Herrschaft” region.
As vonSalis operates as both a wine merchant and a producer under the same name, its positioning within the company and in the market was unclear. The aim of the rebranding process was to bring clarity to the company’s communications: for both to achieve their full potential, it was essential to differentiate between communications sources – it had to be clear whether it was the wine merchant or the vintner (with his own wines) speaking.
Our first step was to rework the wine merchant’s brand profile. Depending on the circumstances, its dynamic logo can function as a symbol or as a flexible stage on which stories, products and messages relating to every aspect of wine can be portrayed. This creates a living identity that is entirely within the spirit of the new brand. VonSalis is presented as a pioneer, a partner and an expert companion, opening up a world of wine and providing down-to-earth guidance, and so the slogan is also: “placing wine center stage.”
The new brand exudes joie de vivre in a celebration of pleasure and sensuality; the illustrations by Japanese artist Satoshi Hashimoto underscore these positive associations while visualzsing the firm’s newly defined values and making them tangible to staff and customers.
We have also fundamentally reimagined the website and online shop: not only does it now function as an agreeable shopping portal that provides an easily navigable source of information about wine in all its forms, its slick search function allows the filtering of inquiries by criteria such as your own tastes; and improvement in user experience.
Client: vonSalis – www.vonsalis-wein.ch
Geschäftsleitung: Daniel Huerbi
Präsident Verwaltungsrat: Andrea Davaz
Brand Strategists/Designers: Process Brand Evolution – www.process-group.com/
Creative Director: Bärbel Fritz
Consulting Director: Martin Fawer
Brand Designer: Dominique Hufschmid
Brand Designer: Séverine Telley
Brand Consultant: Julius Jäger
Account Manager: Julia Wieler
Motion Designer: Levin Bissig
