Travous — TECHNOLOGY

Group Travel Made Easy

Travous is a travel app that aims to help make the mammouth task of organising a group holiday, a seamless, and pain-free experience. Travous allows multiple users to manage the trip, acting as a single solution that combines calendars, itineraries, task management, and even the difficult task of polling activity preferences!

We were approached by the founder to help create the visual identity for the soon-launching, Travous app.

In our discovery phase, we spent time with the founder to understand their vision for Travous, and the features and benefits it brings the users. During the concept phase, we uncovered the idea of the ‘shaka’ hand sign, which is used to express friendship, gratitude and unity. We adopted the ‘shaka’ to express Travous’ playful, expressive tone, and the foundational value of friendship and a shared journey.

We explored diverse expressions of the ‘shaka’ sign, with every combination of loop and line, aiming to find a logo that balanced the visual line weight, to the modern asethetic, without loosing legibility.

Collage of beach and surfing images including people making shaka signs, surfers carrying boards, a sunset over the ocean, and an underwater diver with fish.
Logo featuring a purple shaka hand gesture and the word 'travous' in black text.
Pattern of white shaka hand symbols on purple background.

We paired the logomark with the expressive and individual Recoleta Alt type family, and specifically the Medium and Regular weights.

Font specimen in bold and regular serif, showing upper and lowercase text with numbers and punctuation in black on a white background.
Purple square with white outline of a hand in the shaka sign
Close-up of a smartphone screen displaying app icons, including Travous, Calendar, Google Maps, and Weather, with a time displayed as 12:08.
Person holding a smartphone displaying a travel app with a purple screen that reads 'group travel made simple' and a 'Start here' button.
Sunset over ocean with gradient sky and color palette.
Outdoor billboard displaying a purple advertisement for a travel app, with the text 'adventures amplified, planning simplified - group travel made easy' and a thumb-up illustration. Location is a brick-walled urban setting.
Person on sand dune holding a sandboard, wearing sunglasses and casual clothing, with blue sky background.
A person holding a beige tote bag with purple handles. The bag features the text "group travel made easy" and the logo "travous."
White T-shirt with logo featuring a purple shaka hand sign and the word 'travous' in black font.
Purple advertisement inside a train car with text "group travel made easy" and a thumbs-up graphic.
Silhouette of a woman with arms raised against a dusk sky.
A person sitting on concrete steps wearing a white T-shirt with blue line drawings, black pants, sneakers, and a brown cap. The T-shirt features various symbols including a hand gesture, a wave, a sun, and a palm tree. A metal handrail is beside the person.
Hands holding a white bucket hat with a purple patch featuring a hand making a shaka sign.
Subway station advertisement for a travel app, "travous," featuring slogans promoting easy group travel planning.
Purple poster featuring a stylized thumb-up graphic and "truvous" and "truvous.app" logo, with strong shadows from window panes.
Four sketches on paper placed on a purple car hood, including a shaka hand sign, sun with a wave, palm tree, and thumbs-up gesture.
Train interior with purple travel poster on wall promoting group getaways, featuring text and abstract graphics.

Working with the team at BrandCraft has been great. They took the time to truly understand my brand and vision, then brought it to life in a way that has resonated so strongly with my target audience. I couldn't be happier with the results and highly recommend BrandCraft.

Michelle Tsoi
Founder, Travous

Two surfers with surfboards walking in the ocean at sunset.

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