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Essaouira, Morocco

MONO Hotel

Four letters, and the wind off the Atlantic.

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The place

Essaouira, Morocco

Essaouira is white and blue, windy, and far plainer than the interior of the country. Nobody sells opulence there: they sell a window, a limewashed wall and the sound of the ocean behind the ramparts.

The site rests on that. One photograph, taken from inside a room, window open onto the ramparts; the name in capitals across it. Four letters, no ornament, and a curtain the wind is lifting — which states the town faster than a paragraph could.

Three widths

Desktop, tablet, phone.

The same screen at three widths. A hotel site is mostly read on a phone, often in bed, sometimes on the other side of the world.

MONO Hotel — Essaouira, Morocco — Desktop
MONO Hotel — Essaouira, Morocco — Tablet
MONO Hotel — Essaouira, Morocco — Phone

The art direction

Three decisions.

A window open onto the ramparts with the name in capitals across it. Four letters, no ornament.

  1. A frame inside the frame

    The photograph is taken from indoors: the window does the cropping, so the site does not add a second crop.

  2. Four letters, bare

    A short name in capitals with no drawn logo. The plainness is the argument.

  3. White, blue, sand

    The town's three colours, taken on location, and nothing beyond them.

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