Case study 01 / 05
Nachtlicht
One glowing sign for eleven corner shops
An identity for eleven late-night kiosks that reads from across the street at two in the morning.
- Client
- Nachtlicht, late-night kiosks across Berlin
- Services
- Naming, Identity, Signage
- Year
- 2026
01
The brief
Eleven kiosks, eleven hand-painted signs and no shared name. Regulars loved their own corner shop, but nobody knew the shops belonged together, so none of them could recommend the others.
02
What we did
We kept what people loved about each shop and gave them one thing in common: a lit wordmark that works as a light box over the door, a sticker on the fridge and the header on every receipt. Each shop keeps its street number as its own name, so Nachtlicht 44 is still the one on the corner of Weserstraße.
03
What changed
All eleven shops were relit in one weekend. The light boxes have turned into a map: people now walk from one Nachtlicht to the next, and three more kiosks have asked to join.
The results
11
shops relit in a single weekend
3
more kiosks asked to join
The poster series
Printed on the studio's risograph in two inks, the way every Nova project starts.
01 · Yellow & Black
02 · Orange & Black
03 · Yellow & Blue
Nachtlicht is a made-up client, like Nova Studio itself. The brief, the work and the numbers are part of a portfolio piece.