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Ginjinha Espinheira is the most iconic sour cherry liquor brand in Lisbon, Portugal.

  • Consumer Brands
  • Food & Drink
  • E-Commerce
  • Branding & Visual Identity
  • Interaction Design & Development

Project details

Starting Point

For two centuries, Ginjinha Espinheira has been bringing the most genuine sour cherry liquor to the lips of locals and tourists alike. Their name and small shop in Lisbon's city center are synonyms to quality and tradition.

The brand was waiting to tap into online commerce and social media. Finding the right angle and positioning for the brand online could be the key to access a huge new audience.

Solution & Impact

We teamed up with the owners to learn about the brand's past, digging up pamphlets and other historical relics. We designed a full brand refresh and visual identity guidelines that brought the brand's legacy to a modern audience. We built a website with a contemporary design, using interactive 3D elements and unconventional layouts. This approach made Ginjinha fashionable again at the eyes of a younger generation.

We created a custom shopping experience that made sense for a small product catalogue consisting of bottled liquor. The website drives the visitors to the product page with a few configuration options: a bottle with sour cherry fruits, or without them?

Combined with a social media strategy, the website received many visitors and is consistently growing its sales. Since the website's launch, hundreds of clients in Portugal and outside have been enjoying the taste of Ginjinha.

Credits

Creative Direction & Design

João Sousa

Interaction Design

João Sousa, Raquel Guerreiro

Development

Giorgia Bagnasco, Marcelo Soares

Photography

Nikolai Nekh

Copywriting

Pedro Tavares