Ritual Urban Retreat

An established identity, carried forward with care.

Ritual Urban Retreat membership brochure, designed by Carolina Marques

Overview

Ritual Urban Retreat is a Vancouver wellness studio offering yoga, Pilates, breathwork, sound journeys, sauna and cold plunge. Across an ongoing design retainer, the work spanned a website redesign, newsletters, social content, print and signage. Its established identity provided the foundation, with art direction connecting new campaigns and everyday communications to the character of the studio.

Audience
People seeking movement, recovery and community within city life.
Services
Print, Signage, Website Design & Development, Email Design, Social Media Design
Year
2024–2026
Studio
Dehoco

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01

The Brief

Ritual had an established identity and an ongoing need to communicate its classes, events and seasonal offerings. The work required a sustained understanding of the brand, with each new piece building on what people already recognized.

The website redesign formed a central part of that responsibility, alongside regular communications across digital and physical formats. The challenge was to give each offering the right emphasis while keeping the studio’s wider presence clear and consistent.

Ritual Urban Retreat a frame sign, designed by Carolina Marques
Ritual Urban Retreat mini retreat table sign, designed by Carolina Marques

02

The Idea

The existing identity provided the foundation, with typography, imagery and composition guiding decisions across the website and day-to-day communications. The redesign brought those elements into a renewed digital setting, while newsletters, social content, print and signage extended the same visual language.

Custom graphic treatments and flexible layouts gave individual campaigns room for expression. Ongoing art direction kept those variations connected, considering each piece both on its own and as part of the wider brand.

Ritual Urban Retreat treatment room brochure, designed by Carolina Marques
Ritual Urban Retreat stone bracelets cards, designed by Carolina Marques

03

The Website

A scroll through the site on desktop, with key screens on mobile.

Ritual Urban Retreat home and classes, designed by Carolina Marques
Ritual Urban Retreat home hero, designed by Carolina Marques
Ritual Urban Retreat sauna cold plunge nordic cycle, designed by Carolina Marques
Ritual Urban Retreat yoga classes power, designed by Carolina Marques
Ritual Urban Retreat about sanctuary, designed by Carolina Marques
Ritual Urban Retreat sauna cold plunge cold, designed by Carolina Marques
Ritual Urban Retreat contact, designed by Carolina Marques
Ritual Urban Retreat website mobile home, designed by Carolina Marques
Ritual Urban Retreat website mobile breath, designed by Carolina Marques
Ritual Urban Retreat website mobile sculpt, designed by Carolina Marques
Ritual Urban Retreat website mobile facilitators, designed by Carolina Marques

Closing thought

An ongoing design relationship made it possible to build continuity over time, with each new piece strengthening the presence of the whole.

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