La Argentina · Bakery rebrand · 2020 Belgrano, Buenos Aires · 10 locations Built mid-pandemic · still running The soul stayed. Everything else changed. La Argentina · Bakery rebrand · 2020 Belgrano, Buenos Aires · 10 locations Built mid-pandemic · still running The soul stayed. Everything else changed.
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Argentina

The soul stayed. Everything else changed.

La Argentina Panaderías — storefront

Project

Year2020
DisciplinesIdentity · Packaging · Retail
LocationBelgrano, Buenos Aires
Scale10 locations · system-wide

An iconic establishment with a perfect product and an outdated image. And behind every change, a multigenerational board that didn't want to lose what their brand was all about.

Decades making the best croissants in Belgrano — with an identity stuck in the eighties. The brief, in short: renew without breaking. Elevate without erasing. All of it in the middle of a pandemic.

The decision

Don't rebrand. Rescue.

01
Read the context, not just the brief. Define what the brand couldn't afford to lose — name, lineage, recognition — before designing anything.
02
A meticulously crafted logo. Same reading, adjusted proportions. It feels like it was always there — only now refined.
03
The A, designed for architecture. One ornate letter with three jobs: logo on a box, stamp on a menu, sculpture on a facade.
04
Beyond the paper. Signage, furniture, tableware, interiors — 1940s New York meets Belle Époque, with Polo Galindo on space.

Rescued, not replaced.

La Argentina — brand application
La Argentina — brand application
La Argentina — brand application
La Argentina — brand application
La Argentina — brand application
La Argentina — brand application
La Argentina — brand application
La Argentina — brand application
La Argentina — brand application
La Argentina — brand application
La Argentina — brand application
La Argentina — brand application
La Argentina — brand application
La Argentina — final shot

An old soul, fully dressed.

10loc
Locations rolled out under the new visual & spatial system
20/20
Built and launched mid-pandemic — still running today
ZN
Still ranked among the best bakeries in northern Buenos Aires

The brand retained its name, its heritage, and the trust of its owners that had protected it for decades. What changed was everything else: the typography, the color, the signage, the furniture, the display stand for the croissants. A renewal without disruption. In the midst of a pandemic. And it's still going strong.

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When a brand has a history, the task is not to reinvent it, but to accompany it where the company is now and where it wants to go. Argentina was an example of this process.

Adrián van Nynatten
Adrián van Nynatten Founder · Upa Estudio
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