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GILDA

by Restaurant Roberto

Brand identity, packaging and e-commerce for a fine Italian and Mediterranean grocery in Geneva.

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Client
Restaurant Roberto, Geneva
Scope
Brand identity, packaging & e-commerce
Market
Switzerland only, bilingual FR / EN
Built with
Illustrator, Photoshop, Figma, Shopify
The brief

Three constraints shaped it

GILDA is the online grocery of a Geneva restaurant: small batch Italian specialities, plus its own label made to the restaurant's recipes. The brief was narrow, and every constraint pushed on the identity.

  • 01It had to work without the restaurant's name behind it
  • 02Bilingual on every surface, French and English
  • 03Selling to Switzerland only, where the competitor is not the supermarket but the delicatessen with fifty years of trust
The GILDA storefront: a fine Italian grocery and delicatessen in Geneva
The approach

A grocery that reads as a maker, not a reseller

Trust was the whole problem, so the brand had to look like it had been making food for decades rather than launching a store. A bordeaux and cream palette, restrained typography and photography that treats each jar as a single product carried that across packaging and screen alike.

  • Identity

    Stands on its own, independent of the restaurant.

  • Packaging

    A system covering the whole own-label range.

  • Storefront

    Bilingual Shopify build on a custom theme.

  • Editorial

    Recipes and articles feeding the catalogue.

The work
01

Product packaging & photoshoot

A packaging system built on bordeaux and cream, applied across the own-label range and shot so every product sits in the same light. The photography doubles as the storefront's product imagery, so the shelf and the screen never drift apart.

GILDA Spaghetti no1, pasta di Gragnano IGP, in bordeaux packaging
02

A complete and modern e-commerce solution

A bilingual Shopify storefront covering the full catalogue, French and English on every surface, built for a Swiss-only delivery footprint and the expectations that come with it.

03

A tailor-made Shopify experience

A custom theme built around the brand guidelines rather than bent out of a stock template, so the identity holds from the landing page through to checkout.

04

Editorial content built to increase SEO performance

Recipes and articles integrated into the catalogue, giving the products a reason to be found and the brand a voice beyond the product page.

The GILDA articles index: recipes and guides tied back to products in the catalogue
Fior di Sale di Sicilia in the GILDA own-label jar and tin
GILDA brand guidelines: logo lockups, emblem, colour palette and typography
Production dieline for the GILDA spaghetti packet, with dimensions and print marks