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04 / Hospitality & heritage

Bete Makeda™

Royal hospitality, expressed through identity, ceremony and a coherent hospitality business.

Strategy · Identity · Hospitality direction
Bete Makeda Banquets identity board with gold, green and jewel-toned palette
01 / Brief

A heritage of
extraordinary welcome.

Develop a heritage-led hospitality identity spanning ceremony, invitations and brand applications.

Project brief summary.

02 / Discovery

The business
behind the identity.

Bete Makeda draws from Habesha history and the language of royal hospitality. The identity connects a formal wordmark, a rich material palette and ceremonial detail across invitations, occasion and the wider business. This presentation documents the brand direction.

Focus: Habesha history, royal hospitality, material colour and ceremonial detail.

03 / Moodboard & inspiration

The direction takes shape.

Palette, atmosphere and visual references from the project archive.

Palette, identity and applications together.

Palette, identity and applications together.
Bete Makeda™ · 03 / Moodboard & inspiration

A visual reference to heritage and ceremony.

A visual reference to heritage and ceremony.
Bete Makeda™ · 03 / Moodboard & inspiration
04 / Work in progress

Developing the language.

Dated sketches, design iterations and approval records have not yet been supplied for this project.

05 / Final results

The business, expressed.

Presented identity and application assets from the project archive. Commercial performance is not asserted.

A formal signature for hospitality.

A formal signature for hospitality.
Bete Makeda™ · 05 / Final results