The HOUSE of HELENA
LOGO & BRAND IDENTITY DESIGN ✷ CREATIVE DIRECTION ✷ WEBSITE DESIGN ✷ PRINT DESIGN
The House of Helena is the living temple space of goddess oracle and spiritual guide, Helena Murray, established to lead the modern divine feminine to the remembrance of her Priestess power. As Helena says, “modern life is the mystery school, the sadhana, and the continuous initiation towards self-actualization.”
Offering spiritual guidance sessions, as well as talismanic jewelry, poetry books, and more, Helena had been operating her business offline and felt ready to bring her website vision to life and weave all of her offerings through one portal. She was guided to me and deeply resonated with my energy and ethos. Together, we co-created the visual expression of her business through her logo and brand identity design, website, and print materials.
Brand symbolism
Through the brand strategy process, we unveiled the deeper meaning of Helena’s brand. This provided a foundation for the direction of her logo and brand identity design.
Three goddesses guide The House of Helena brand: the Love Goddess, Green Goddess, and Dark Goddess. Representative of the Maiden, Mother, and Crone as well as the Jungian archetypes of the Lover, Caregiver, and Magician, together, they create a dynamic expression of the Divine Feminine. Furthermore, they represent the cyclical journey through Heaven, Earth, and the Underworld that is key to the spiritual path.
This translated to the creative direction of her brand identity via three key themes, shown in her brand moodboard below: Sensual Glam (representative of Helena’s past life as a jazz singer and an expression of the Love Goddess), Dark, Moody and Brooding (dimly-lit, moody imagery conveys the Dark Goddess and the voyage into the Underworld necessary to expansion), and Vibrant, Wild Nature (bright colors add a playful and unexpected contrast to the predominance of dark sensuality, and represent the vibrancy of nature and the Green Goddess).
BRAND ADJECTIVES
Divine
Radiant
Feminine
Powerful
Joyful
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Divine Radiant Feminine Powerful Joyful ✺
About the logo & brand design
The logo design is architectural and temple-like. The letterforms are a modern evocation of classical Greek architecture—an ancient dedication to the goddesses that still stands today.
The H monogram stands for ‘Helena’ and represents Ionic columns and the High Priestess, an expression of the divine feminine who is seen in the tarot as sitting between two columns. The contrast within the monogram represents the duality of light and shadow.
Overall, the brand design conveys a balanced sense of masculine structure providing containment, support, and safety for the divine feminine. It also expresses a lush sensuality that conveys the energy that Helena embodies in her life and work.
HELENA ✷ GODDESS ORACLE & SPIRITUAL GUIDE