Leading Zero

Two languages of the same downtime

La Costa fresca · with Larnilane

A beach shot carrying a handwritten Russian headline and the “La Costa fresca” logo in the corner: a beer bottle standing on a flat stone balanced like a scale, beside orange slices, a stack of grey pebbles and ice cubes in the sand

The beer category sells an occasion: company, sport, noise. Inside that code there is no way to speak about a person’s state.

From a reason to drink to a state a person makes for themselves. Two languages of the same downtime: inner balance and retro-resort lightness.

Each territory is taken to a complete system: naming, key visual, a signature ritual of drinking, gifting. “Balance” is built around stones and ice and the ritual of a deliberate pause; “Resort” around retro aesthetics and a ritual with citrus zest and sea salt.

  • Develop both directions to comparable depth instead of picking one at brief stage
  • Build the difference through the ritual of drinking, not only the advertising image
  • Leave the standard beer codes in favour of personal, sensory experience
  • Take each territory down to an operational level — a concrete mechanic of serving

Our role: developing both concepts in full — from the insight to the gifting.

A flat retro poster carrying a large Russian headline and the “La Costa fresca” logo: stylised sun, waves and palm leaves in blue and orange, with the bottle at the centreA warm shot at sunset with no overlaid text: a wooden tray by the water holding a bottle and a glass branded “La Costa fresca”, stacked pebbles, citrus halves and ice cubes set with rosemary