Interior of Ambra, an Italian restaurant, with amber and rust stained-glass panels lit low against dark timber and velvet.
A lit amber sign outside Ambra reading AMBRA, Cucina Italiana, mounted on pale stone.
Backlighting the amber panel makes the idea behind the name visible before guests enter.
A coupe with a dried orange slice seen from above, its glass and shadow falling across the olive menu cover, the AMBRA wordmark foiled in gold.
A waiter crosses Ambra's dining room carrying two plates, the wordmark embroidered on his shirt, the stained-glass screen glowing behind him.
The wordmark is kept small on the uniform—enough to identify the staff without making them feel overly branded.
An overhead shot of Ambra's table set with wine, olives and pasta, a round coaster printed with a line of Italian verse at its centre.
We chose a line from Dante about light passing through amber, linking the smallest piece of print to the central concept.
The dining room at Ambra, amber and rust stained glass lit low against dark timber.
Our visual direction references the geometry of 1960s Italian Modernism and Radical Design, alongside the dark timber, rich colours and low lighting of 1970s Mediterranean interiors.
A linen napkin embroidered with the ambra wordmark, one corner of the amber circle motif printed across it, draped over a table edge.
Embroidery makes the monogram part of the linen itself
Amber, rust, olive and cream glass bottles and stoppers grouped on a stone surface.
We carried the palette into translucent glass, so even the olive-oil bottles feel part of Ambra’s world.
The Ambra monogram on dark olive ground, the interlocking circular mark above the AMBRA wordmark and Cucina Italiana line.
The full wordmark leads the identity; the circular monogram gives us a smaller mark for more intimate details.
The Ambra menu, front and back: the wordmark on a plain olive cover, and the printed menu beside a cropped section of the stained-glass window.
We kept the menu restrained: dark olive, gold foil and a geometric grid that carries the identity through to print.

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