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Almater Hospital | Visual Identity System & Collateral Design

The Challenge: Hospital Almater is one of Northwest Mexico's leading healthcare providers: an institution with real clinical authority and genuine international ambitions. The problem? Their visual identity said neither. Conservative, static, and cold, it was designed to reassure through formality. Instead, it was pushing patients away and failing to attract the medical tourism market they were actively targeting.


They needed a brand that could hold two truths at once: rigorous enough for international standards, warm enough to feel human.

The Solution: I dismantled the clinical coldness and rebuilt the visual system around people, not procedures. A warmer colour palette, lifestyle-driven photography, and structured editorial grids replaced what felt institutional with something genuinely inviting, without sacrificing authority.


The result is a brand that speaks fluently to two audiences simultaneously: the international patient choosing a medical destination, and the local family that needs to trust where they're going.

My Role: Art Direction, Print & Editorial Design, Brand System Adaptation, Collateral Development

Agency: Treviño Creativo

© 2026 by Etienne Ranc
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