Mano a Mano

A good fit

Mano a Mano fits early-stage and growing companies that need a full brand identity or a product/web redesign built around a single clear idea rather than incremental polish. Published case studies name Journafy (a healthcare-technology rebrand spanning oncology, neonatal and assisted-living products), Tagpeak (a fintech cashback-investing platform) and FLAT Burger (a Porto smashed-burger restaurant), alongside a broader named client list of Barkyn, ScaleUp, PBS, Porto., P.Porto, Porto Design Factory, Sensei, Paw It Up!, Hashdash, Ensico, Green Cook and Portuguese Women In Tech. The studio is run by two named principals, Inês Vieira and Ana Noversa.

Services

Published service lines are Branding (visual identity, brand applications, guidelines, social media), Graphic Design (editorial design, posters, packaging, merchandising), Illustration (icon design, pattern design, infographics), Copywriting (naming systems, slogans, tone of voice) and Web Design (UI/UX design, usability analysis, development).

Representative work

A published case study describes rebranding Journafy, a healthcare-technology company that evolved from a patient-recovery app into oncology, neonatal-care and assisted-living products, covering brand strategy, visual identity, website design, iconography, motion and tone of voice, with a design system built around warm greens/neutrals and a 'real moments' photography direction. A further published case study describes a product and web redesign for Tagpeak, a fintech cashback-investing platform, simplifying a previously complicated mobile flow around the message 'a new kind of cashback, shop rewards that can grow'; the client is quoted crediting the relaunch with its best month ever for both purchases and cashback returns. A third published case study describes a full brand identity for FLAT Burger, a Porto smashed-burger restaurant, built around a purple palette and a condensed industrial typeface paired with a contemporary serif.

Notes

Mano a Mano is based at a coworking address on Rua do Rosário in Porto, Portugal. No founding year is published on the site. The site's root robots.txt returns HTTP 404 (no robots.txt file published), so no crawl restriction applies. The official contact page uses a 'Let's Work Together' call to action and lists a business email address alongside two Portuguese mobile phone numbers and the Porto office address; it is used as the buyer contact destination since no dedicated contact form exists.