Raffaella Costa Architettobrand identity, website and photography

An architecture studio in Genoa, with a monogram where the leg of the R follows the curve of the C.

Client
Raffaella Costa Architetto
Sector
Architecture and interior design
Location
Genoa, Italy
Year
2025 to 2026
Services
Branding, Web design, Content creation
Visit the site
Mockup of the Raffaella Costa monogram and wordmark in sand-coloured letters on a charcoal wall, above a long pale sofa and two round wooden tables, under a sloping timber ceiling

The brief

Raffaella Costa Architetto is an architecture and interior design studio in Genoa, founded by Raffaella Costa in 1992 after formative years with Giancarlo De Carlo and at the Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Between 2025 and 2026 we drew its new identity from scratch, designed and built its website, and photographed one of its projects.

What we made

The monogram joins Raffaella’s initials: the leg of the R runs inside the curve of the C, with the same stroke width throughout, so the two letters read as one drawing. In the wordmark, RAFFAELLA in light and COSTA in bold run together with no space. We delivered the identity as a brand book with the logo files.

Mockup of a charcoal business card with rounded corners, the RC monogram, RAFFAELLA COSTA and ARCHITETTO printed in sand colour, lying on concrete striped with light and shadowMockup of the monogram, the wordmark and ARCHITETTO in white on a shop window that reflects the buildings across the street, with a large-leaved plant and pale chairs inside
Mockup of a large framed panel on a wall of wooden slats, showing a living room with the monogram and the wordmark on its dark wall

The website, raffaellacosta.com, is in Italian, on a dark palette, with five pages and twelve projects. We didn’t produce its homepage film, the film La Storia di Raffaella or the client testimonials, but we advised on their production.

Screenshot of the raffaellacosta.com homepage: the logo, a rounded menu with Home, Lo Studio, Progetti and Servizi, and a Contattaci button, over a frame of the header film in which four women work around a long yellow table with laptops, in front of bookshelves that reach the ceiling
From the homepage film.
From La Storia di Raffaella.
Mockup of a laptop on a fabric armchair with wooden arms, open on the Servizi page of raffaellacosta.com: the Progettazione section, a heading in Italian, a list of key points and a photograph of a white interior with a plant

We photographed Casa Bianca, one of the studio’s projects in Genoa, inside and out, and from a drone.

Casa Bianca seen from a drone: a row of joined houses painted yellow, pale green and pink on a wooded hillside, with gardens and a stone retaining wall in front, and mountains under a blue sky behind
A white living room with a long L-shaped sofa and pale cushions, a glass coffee table stacked with books, a television set into white shelving, two candlesticks in high niches and a skylight aboveA white kitchen with a long island and tall cupboards on a pale wooden floor, and beside it, on the right, a long dark dining table with white-covered chairs under a long pendant lamp
A lawn between tall hedges in front of a pale green house with green shutters and a peach-coloured gabled wing, with white outdoor sofas under an awning and a blue sky with white cloudsA roof terrace with two dark wooden loungers, a low table and potted agaves along the parapet, beside a yellow wall with a green shutter and open glass doors, looking out over trees and rooftops to the sea