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Success Story · Cartagena
VACILAO
You deserve a treat

From noise to an identity
that connects

How we transformed a restaurant-nightclub into a brand with storytelling, aesthetics, and viral content.

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Visual
rebranding
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Brand transformation

Before vs. After

Before

Loud, with no visual hierarchy

Saturated colors — bright green, red, yellow
Reggae-style typography on an orange background
Felt like a casual joint with no culinary identity
Hard to reproduce across different formats
Facebook dormant · TikTok with no strategy
After

Clean, elegant, versatile

Pastel palette: mint green, soft yellow, salmon pink
Solid typography with a Cartagena identity
Cartagena's dome and star used as symbols
Works perfectly on menu, merch, and social media
Recognized restaurant · reservations via WhatsApp
The starting point

A place nobody
knew was a restaurant

Vacilao came to Doxa with 24,000 followers but a confusing message. People saw a nightclub — not the restaurant, the Angus cuts, the coastal dishes, the signature cocktails.

The branding shouted but didn't communicate. The visual identity was saturated, with reggae-style colors that didn't convey the real culinary quality of the place.

Facebook dormant, TikTok inactive. A premium offering nobody knew about.

Confusing identity
The audience couldn't tell if it was a restaurant or a nightclub
Saturated branding
Reggae-style colors, cluttered textures with no visual hierarchy
Inactive social media
TikTok unused, Facebook with no content strategy
Invisible cuisine
Angus cuts and premium cocktails nobody knew about
The strategy

Showing both sides
of the place with one voice

We built a narrative that showed Vacilao as what it always was: a restaurant by day, a nightclub by night.

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Complete visual rebranding

We removed the reggae-style textures and colors. We built a minimalist, clean, and versatile identity — keeping the nods to Cartagena identity: the dome and the star in the logo.

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Dual restaurant / nightclub narrative

Every piece of content had a specific role — cuisine, ambiance, events — within a coherent, renewed visual system.

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Stylized culinary content

Baby Beef, Rib Eye Angus, Baby Back Ribs, signature cocktails. The menu became steakhouse-quality content.

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Organic videos with authentic storytelling

The owner on camera, a full house, a real atmosphere. No influencer, no paid ads — just authentic storytelling the audience wanted to share.

Results

Real growth
on every front

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New followers
on Instagram
From 24K to 34K
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Organic
shares
One single video · no paid ads
100%
Visual identity
rebranding
Logo · menu · social media
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Organic shares · no paid ads · no influencer

"A video of the owner with buckets of ice-cold beer generated almost 2,800 organic shares. Just authentic storytelling and a place people wanted to show their friends."

Doxa Creative Team · Vacilao · Cartagena

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