A Strategic Approach to Dive Industry Branding

At 50bar Scuba Design, we follow a structured and collaborative process to ensure your dive shop’s branding, marketing, and design are not only visually stunning but also strategically effective.
Our goal is to position your business ahead of the competition while staying true to your unique identity.

Our Methodology

1. Business Environment Analysis

We begin with an in-depth study of your business environment to uncover key differentiating factors, define your brand positioning, and set clear objectives. This includes:

  • Competitor Analysis – Identifying strengths and opportunities against both direct and indirect competitors.
  • Target Audience Analysis – Understanding your customers’ needs, motivations, and ideals to shape a brand that speaks directly to them.
  • Market Opportunities – Discovering advantages that can increase bookings, brand loyalty, and visibility.

Your value proposition is what makes your dive center stand out. It’s the unique promise you make to customers—what they gain by choosing you over competitors. We craft a clear, compelling message that reflects your strengths and appeals to your target audience.

 A strong creative foundation ensures consistency across all platforms. We define an overarching concept that will guide your branding, website, social media, and communication strategy, ensuring everything aligns under one vision.

We determine the essential content needed—whether from your existing materials or new content based on our analysis. This ensures your marketing efforts are informative, engaging, and aligned with your brand identity.

Before diving into the design, we create a mood board and establish the foundations of your style guide. This defines the tone, theme, message, and objectives, ensuring all visuals and communication align with your brand’s personality.

With a clear direction in place, we begin the drafting and sketching phase, turning concepts into tangible ideas. This stage allows for adjustments before finalizing the materials.

Once everything is approved, we refine the designs and finalize your brand assets, marketing materials, or website to be ready for launch.

 A Collaborative Process

From start to finish, you are part of the journey. We believe in transparent communication to ensure everyone is on the same page, saving you both time and money while achieving the best results.

Let’s build something great together!

What Makes us the perfect buddy?

Scuba Instructors

As scuba instructors, we have a full understanding of the diving market and training systems. This way, we ensure a fast understanding of the technical aspects of your business.

Multidisciplined

We have extensive experience in the marketing and creative fields, guaranteeing you a high quality service as well as visual consistency in all the materials we produce.

On-site or remote

We are willing to relocate to your location to not only experience your operation and get a full understanding of it, but to also discover your local resources and work out unique possibilities.

Flexibility

We have designed packages that suite everybody's needs. Save time and stress with our yearly design and marketing support as well as customized ocean conservation and clean-up campaigns. 

MEET YOUR Creative Dive TEAM

JULIA SILVA

Project Manager

Creative, designer, photographer, traveler, ocean lover and scuba instructor. With an extensive advertising and marketing background, she has worked for multinational brands and dive centers around the world, putting extreme care and dedication to each work she performs.

Miguel Aza Art Director and Brand Strategist

Miguel Aza

Creative Director

World traveler, ocean enthusiast and nudibranch lover. With over 10 years of experience in the advertising sector, he has worked for a variety of global brands and small companies. His goal is to dedicate his diving and creative skills towards ocean conservation and divulgation.

Elena Vivaldo

Copy Writer

Elena is a globe-trotter and turtle-lover with over 15 years of diving know-how. Having started her copywriting business in 2017, Elena is a close ally for dive centres and the travel & hospitality industry, helping them promote their products and services through customised copywriting solutions.