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Villas Duma

Exclusive villas in Albufeira, with a personal service and guests who come back. What it lacked was a brand that said so before the first booking.

SECTOR
Holiday lets
SERVICES
Identity & social media
DELIVERY
Symbol, palette, typography and social media management
LOCATION
Albufeira, Algarve
DURATION
1 month
THE SHIFT ON THIS PROJECT
THE STARTING POINT

Great villas,
a brand with no voice.

Villas Duma manages holiday properties in the Algarve with a level of care you notice during the stay: full support, hand-picked houses, guests who recommend it.

Online, it was competing with hundreds of identical listings — the same photos, the same copy, no brand behind them.

  • No symbol or palette of its own
  • Communication indistinguishable from any listing-site advert
  • Every post with a different look
  • Nothing tying the brand to the Algarve
WHAT WE DID

One sun, two waves
and one rule for everything.

01 · SYMBOL

The Algarve reduced to two shapes

The sun and the waves — the sunlit experience of being in the Algarve, drawn with the bare minimum. The typography sits alongside the symbol so it works as a stamp, in a footer and in an Instagram square.

  • Symbol in stamp and horizontal versions
  • Defined clear space
  • Versions for light and dark backgrounds
02 · PALETTE

Water blue, beach sand

A deep blue for the base, a sandy gold for the accent and a light turquoise to breathe. Colours that already exist in the photographs of the houses, so brand and photography do not clash.

  • Three colours, clear hierarchy
  • Tested over real photography
  • Contrast checked for text
03 · APPLICATION

A system of posts, not one-off posts

We set templates for the kinds of content the brand always posts: presenting the house, the details, the surroundings, the call to book. Each one with the same structure, so it is recognisable without reading the name.

  • Templates by content type
  • Captions with a fixed structure
  • A discreet watermark on every piece
Villas Duma website on screen
01 The symbol applied over the landscape it stands for. No box, no outline — just the brand and the Algarve.
THE BRAND APPLIED

The brand at work.

An identity only exists when it survives daily use. These are the templates the team uses to post without having to decide everything again for each post.

Screens of the Villas Duma website
PRESENTATION

The house, in three lines

Each villa comes in with its location, what it offers and how many people it sleeps — always in the same order.

DETAIL

What you see in person

Pool, kitchen, garden, snooker. The details that settle a booking, shown one by one.

CALL

The booking, straight to the point

The last post in each series is always a direct invitation, with the season and the reason.

VISUAL SYSTEM

A stamp of sun,
water beneath.

The palette and typography were chosen to stand up to what the sector demands: strong photography behind, small text on top, screens of every size.

Construction of the Villas Duma symbol
Construction grid and clear space around the symbol.
VILLAS DUMA
#177A96Primary
#CEA271Secondary
#BCEBE4Base
RomanSerifRegular · Medium · Bold
THEN, THE SOCIALS

The brand put to work every day.

With the identity done, we took on the operation: planning, producing and publishing. This is where a brand stops being a file and becomes a habit.

Villas Duma posts
Villas Duma posts
THE HOUSE

Every villa presented the same way

Location, capacity and what it offers — always in the same order, so comparing is easy.

THE DETAIL

What settles the booking

Pool, kitchen, garden, snooker. The details that make people choose one house over another.

THE SEASON

A reason to book now

New Year, summer, a long weekend. The call changes with the calendar, the structure does not.

FIRST MONTH
Accounts reached
253% up on the previous month
Accounts engaged
250% up on the previous month
Followers
2,2% up on the previous month
HOW TO READ THIS
They are from the first month
Start-up percentages, measured against a small base. They look bigger than they are — we say this because it is true.
They come from the Instagram dashboard
These are not our estimates. They are the platform’s own reading, for the period shown.
WHAT CHANGED

What started happening.

AFTER
The brand became recognisable
The symbol registers before the name, which is the goal of any identity.
Publishing stopped meaning deciding
With templates in place, the team produces without stopping to design.
A language for the Algarve
The brand stopped looking like a listing-site advert and started looking like a host.
WHAT WE DON’T SAY
Percentages
We do not publish client numbers without written permission. The ones from this project are discussed on the call, with the data in front of us.
Bookings
Bookings depend on season, price and platform. An identity helps people choose — it does not replace the operation.
NEXT

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YOUR CASE

If your business is good
and stuck offline.

Thirty minutes about what you sell and how you measure. If we are not the right choice, we will tell you straight away.

Andreia, founder of The Media Bees
AndreiaFOUNDER · HUMAN STRATEGY