09 Branding·Web Design·2024

Café
Puschkin

Visual identity and website for a Leipzig café and cultural venue named after the poet. Literary heritage, set in constructivist type.

The Café Puschkin website: PUSCHKIN in tall condensed cream type on a brick-red panel, with a red star in the navigation above.
Role
Visual identity · web design
Client
Café Puschkin · Leipzig Südvorstadt
Team
With lilaquadrat
Type
Live website
01The brief

A poet's name, a creative neighbourhood.

A café and cultural venue in Leipzig's Südvorstadt, named after Alexander Pushkin. The identity had to connect its literary roots with the city's contemporary creative scene.

The homepage: interior photographs of the café above the line Willkommen im Puschkin Café, einem eleganten Ort im Stadtzentrum.
Homepage · welcome · the café itself
02The identity

Constructivist, and warm.

Soviet constructivist aesthetics as the starting point: bold condensed type, a red star and a warm palette of brick and cream. A strong visual language that still feels like a café.

Eight mobile screens: the menu, the café story, events and the wordmark, all in the brick-and-cream identity.
Mobile · menu · story · events
03The website

Loud type, a working site.

The design honours the café's cultural roots and still does the daily job: the menu, the story and the events, on desktop and mobile.

A full-width typographic statement: Die Puschkin Palette, Kaffee und Kultur vereinen sich.
Typographic statement · coffee and culture
04The details

Every page a poster.

Photography and type share the panel, so each section reads like a poster for the place.

A section pairing an interior photograph with the line Das Café ist ein Ort, der mit der Kreativität lokaler Künstler…
Interior · local artists · type and image together