Spanisch und Kultur
She isn't selling Spanish — she's selling the table.
Spanisch und Kultur is Luciana Rivas Mariño's Spanish-teaching practice in Weiningen, canton of Zürich. It is one person: her. She founded Spanisch und Kultur in 2020 and has taught Spanish since 2006.

The site spoke like an anonymous school — «our experienced native teachers» — when the business is a single woman. Dressing something singular as an institution, it paid the price with the one thing that truly sets her apart. Because almost any Spanish teacher is a native speaker; almost none has been, as an adult, a beginner. Luciana learned German as an adult, in Ulm, while teaching. That — the most hers — was buried.

«Spanish and culture» is not a difference: four local competitors say exactly that. Her real difference is precisely the part that doesn't scale — having sat on the other side of the table. And because she wants this to become her main income, the site couldn't only express: it had to convince, without ceasing to be her.

Her hand-painted logo was kept — it's her own work; the voice moved to «I» and «you»; and the design was made warm and handmade — «a well-kept table, not a well-behaved website» — precisely so as not to fall into the editorial restraint that would have erased her. Colour runs as a sequence, one hue per section.
And where the old site implied a seal it doesn't hold, the new one says it plainly: it is not an accredited Instituto Cervantes centre nor a DELE examination centre — it prepares students for those exams, and that is told in words, not logos. Prices, levels and dates are marked as placeholders until she confirms them.
A private preview that proves the direction — the singular voice, the warmth, the commercial spine — without yet deciding her prices, her levels, her dates or the final logo artwork. It's a study: nothing launched, her live site untouched, no results to show.
A teacher who finally introduces herself as a person, not an institution.
An independent design study, published with the teacher's permission.