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Alchemy Bartending School — branding and graphic design by Indigo Estudio, Mallorca

Alchemy Bartending School
Client:
Costas Nicolaides
Date:
13.9.2025
Work:
Branding
Graphic Design
Project 06
Never Give Up

A complete rebranding for Alchemy Bartending School, a bartending school founded in 2011. We developed a visual identity based on the fusion of two worlds, featuring a bespoke logo, an icon system, a six-colour palette and various applications. A brand that does not describe what the school does, but rather what it brings about: transformation.

Coasters featuring the Alchemy Bartending School logo — Branding projects by Indigo Estudio

Alchemy has been transforming people through bartending for over a decade. But its visual identity did not live up to that ethos. The brief was clear: to build a new brand from scratch, capable of embodying everything the school stands for with the same conviction.

The conceptual starting point was the convergence of two disciplines that share the same obsession with transformation: classical alchemy and contemporary mixology. Building on this, we developed a comprehensive brand identity system (logo, icon, typography, colour palette and applications) in which every design decision has a symbolic and functional basis.

The result is a brand that does not illustrate what Alchemy does, but rather what it stands for. Precise, meaningful and built to last.

Proposed rebranding cover for Alchemy Bartending School
Alchemy logo — typographic design featuring alchemical symbolism
Alchemy summary icon — the letter A in a circle as an alchemical symbol
Design and secure area for the Alchemy Bartending School logo
A symbolic explanation of the Alchemy logo — circle, triangle and the base of a goblet
Alchemy colour palette — Alchemical Ivory, Midnight Graphite, Aged Copper
Slogan: ‘Niemals Aufgeben’ — additional artwork for Alchemy Bartending School
Alchemy corporate stationery — Costas Nicolaides’ business card
Use of the logo on coasters — Alchemy Bartending School branding
T-shirt featuring the ‘Niemals Aufgeben’ design — Alchemy Bartending School textile appliqué
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