KLIMA

Brand Strategy, Identity & Hotel Experience Design for a Wellness Amenity Brand.

Services Provided

Brand Positioning
Brand Identity Development
Packaging Design
Hotel Brand Experience
Photography
Brand Guidelines

Klima is a wellness-driven amenity brand designed for modern hospitality, created by Olympic champion and skincare entrepreneur Michael Klim. Built on principles of recovery, performance, and sensory restoration, the brand transforms in-room rituals into moments of calm and renewal.

Developed in partnership with Hunter Amenities, Klima operates at the intersection of design, wellness, and operational scale — engineered for hotel environments while maintaining a refined, emotionally resonant brand experience.

The Ludbrook Agency was engaged to resolve the brand’s identity from the ground up: defining its strategic position, building its visual language, and creating a cohesive system capable of communicating Klima’s value to hotel partners globally.It sits at the intersection of wellness branding and hospitality branding — two areas of deep expertise for our Sydney-based agency.

The Challenge:
Elevating a Founder-Led Brand
into a Scalable HOTEL BRAND

Klima entered the market with strong foundations — a credible founder story, a clear wellness philosophy, and an initial product range. However, the brand lacked a fully resolved identity and a cohesive system to communicate its value to hotel partners.

The challenge was to move beyond a personal narrative and position Klima as a design-led, commercially viable hospitality brand — one capable of competing with established global amenity brands while retaining its authenticity and purpose.

This required not only visual refinement, but the articulation of a complete brand world — one that could translate consistently across product, environment, and guest experience. It is the kind of challenge that sits at the heart of what we do as a hospitality branding agency with deep roots in wellness web design and brand strategy.

Brand Strategy: Defining
a Wellness-First Hospitality Position

The strategic opportunity was to position Klima not only as a skincare or lifestyle brand, but as a wellness system designed for hospitality environments. The brand was reframed around three core principles:

Recovery and restoration as a genuine guest need — not a premium add-on, but a fundamental expectation of the modern traveller.

Water as a unifying concept — drawing on Michael Klim’s lived relationship with the element, water became the brand’s philosophical core, symbolising strength, adaptability, and renewal across formulation, design, and narrative.

Wellness as structural — embedded into sourcing, formulation, design, and in-room experience, rather than positioned as a surface-level marketing claim.

This placed Klima within a distinct space in the market — bridging a premium brand offer with functional hotel suppliers, offering both strong differentiation and operational viability through Hunter Amenities’ established infrastructure.This is the thinking that defines our approach to wellness web design and hotel brand strategy — where commercial rigour and sensory intelligence work together.

Wellness centre protocols for ice baths, sauna, and contrast therapy translate science-led practice into clear, intuitive moments of care — displayed calmly within wellness spaces without overwhelming them.

The Klima Wellness System is conceived as a holistic approach, inspired by water and delivering wellness immersions across the hotel experience.

Visual Identity:
A Minimal, Elemental System

With an existing logo and prototype bottle, Klima approached the Ludbrook Agency to develop the brand world that could give those assets meaning, context, and commercial weight within the hotel industry.

Our role was to take those foundational elements and build outward: translating the existing visual language into a cohesive system that could operate consistently across hotel environments, guest touchpoints, digital channels, and partner conversations.

Drawing on our understanding of both the wellness industry and the hospitality sector, we developed the strategic and creative framework that gives Klima its identity beyond the product — the typographic system, the photography and imagery direction, the tone of voice, the spatial and environmental guidelines, and the brand narrative that connects all of it.

The result is a design system that feels quietly premium and immediately recognisable within hotel environments — one where every touchpoint, from the bathroom amenities to the in-room television to the media kit, communicates a single coherent brand.

A comprehensive brand guidelines document was developed to ensure this consistency could be maintained and scaled across every application, including brand positioning and unique selling points, colour and typography usage, photography and video direction, social media visual guidelines, as well as merchandise and retail applications.

We developed a brand guidelines to ensure consistency across every touchpoint, bringing the Klima brand world to life through examples of applications across hotel, retail, and wellness lifestyle products.

PHOTOGRAPHY Art Direction & Brand Imagery

Klima’s visual language is built around the sensory and emotional qualities of water — movement, immersion, light, and stillness.

Product imagery is clean, tonal, and tactile. Lifestyle imagery captures human interaction with water and skin. Environmental imagery conveys space, breath, and calm. Together, these create a cohesive brand signature that scales across hotel, retail, and digital channels while maintaining emotional consistency.

Product photography is crisp, with sharp shadows lending a sense of elevated contemporary minimalism.

Product photography is crisp, with sharp shadows lending a sense of elevated contemporary minimalism.

Product Design & Hospitality Integration

Klima was engineered specifically for hotel environments in close collaboration with Hunter Amenities, ensuring design and operational functionality work together seamlessly. The core amenity range includes refillable hand and body wash, body lotion, shampoo, and conditioner in 100% recycled packaging, vegan and cruelty-free formulations. Beyond core amenities, the brand extends into a layered guest experience system:

The Good Night Sleep Kit, available from in-room minibars, includes a pillow mist infused with natural sea extracts, a sleep ritual card with QR code linking to guided meditations, and an aromatherapy shower steamer.

In-room guided meditations with Michael Klim are delivered via the in-room television, offering a breath reset sequence, ocean soundscape, and movement sequences designed to reduce stress within minutes of arrival. Wellness Centre protocols for sauna, ice bath, and contrast therapy.

The packaging design and product system reflect our broader experience in supplement packaging design and wellness product branding — where tactile quality and visual restraint communicate premium positioning without saying a word.

We developed comprehensive brand guidelines to ensure consistency across every touchpoint, including: brand positioning, verbal identity, logo usage and typography system, colour palette, packaging, photography and video direction, social media visual guidelines, and retail point of sale applications.

VIP gifting and media kits are designed for key guests, media partners, and hotel collaborations — intentional, personal, and aligned with Klima’s calm approach to modern luxury.

Brand Experience: Beyond the Amenity

Klima is designed not simply as a product range, but as a layered guest experience. Wellness is embedded across every touchpoint — fragrance, colour, and texture support immediate nervous system response; in-room rituals encourage recovery and reset; and digital content extends the experience beyond the physical product.

TESTIMONIAL

“We came to Ludbrook Agency with a strong product and clear intent, but the brand itself wasn’t fully resolved. They helped us define not just how Klima should look, but what it stands for and how it operates within a hotel context.

Their approach brought a critical level of clarity and structure – from positioning through to how the brand shows up across product, imagery and partner conversations. The process was highly considered and collaborative.

We now have a cohesive brand system that feels true to the original vision, but significantly more refined and scalable. It has given us confidence as we move into hotel partnerships and broader market rollout.”

— Michael Klim, Founder

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