Your brand should agree with itself — everywhere it appears.
Island Todo is a branding and brand management agency in the Maldives. We build brands and rebrand them, then keep every expression of them aligned, keep the digital assets that carry them owned and secure, and put them to work.
Before anything else
Three questions. Most brands fail at least one.
Does your logo look the same on your signage, your website and your invoices?
Not similar. The same.
Do Google, your social bios and your website agree about who you are?
Name, hours, spelling, claims. All of it.
Do you own the files, the domain and the accounts your brand lives in?
If you can't produce them, the brand is on loan.
If any of those took thought, you're in the ordinary situation. The brand got built, then nobody was responsible for it afterwards. Signage got redrawn, the website used a different blue, the Instagram bio drifted, three people made their own letterheads, and the designer left with the source files.
We build brands, and then we stay. That's the difference between a branding agency and a brand management agency.
Check your alignment. It's free.Brands under management, across seven Maldivian sectors
Of brand assets registered in the client's own name, never ours
Exit fees, handover fees, or files ever withheld over an invoice
Four pillars — in the order a brand needs them
Branding
Build it.
New brands from naming to guidelines, and rebrands that respect what you've already earned. Identity systems designed in Dhivehi and English together, not one retrofitted onto the other. Marks built as real vector artwork with the source files handed over. Guidelines a signwriter in Malé and a printer in Colombo can both follow.
- Branding
- Rebranding
- Naming
- Identity systems
- Guidelines
- Signage & packaging
Brand Alignment
Align it.
Brand management as an ongoing service. Every place your brand appears — signage, vehicles, stationery, website, social profiles, Google, directories, booking listings, staff documents, email signatures — audited against the guidelines, scored, fixed, and kept that way. The account your business gives of itself, made true everywhere.
- Touchpoint audit
- Alignment Report
- Rollout
- Governance
- Listings
- Templates
Digital Assets & Security
Secure it.
Business digital asset management. Every asset that carries your brand — logo masters, guidelines, photography and its usage rights, fonts and their licences, domains, handles, business profiles, ad accounts, credentials — organised, findable, and registered in your name. Recovered when someone else holds it. Protected so it stays yours.
- Asset Register
- Ownership
- Recovery
- Domains & DNS
- Handles
- Protection
Digital Marketing
Grow it.
Search, organic and paid. Social strategy and production. Content. Photography and video shot here, not licensed from a stock library. Websites and digital products. Planned around the calendar your business actually runs on — high season, Ramadan, Eid, the shoulder months — and reported in language you can forward to a board.
- Search
- Social & content
- Photography & video
- Web
- Email & CRM
- Paid media
Branding creates the standard. Alignment enforces it. Assets & Security make sure you own what's being enforced. Marketing multiplies it.
The deliverable
Every brand we manage has an Alignment Report. This is one.
Every place your brand appears, checked against your guidelines and scored. One document that says where the brand is right, where it's drifted, and what we're fixing first.
| Touchpoint | Channel | Finding | Status |
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20 of 20 touchpoints shown
Get your own — free alignment checkNothing in that table is unusual. It's roughly what we find in the first week at most businesses trading more than a few years — especially the successful ones, because they've had more suppliers, more staff and more touchpoints.
The same drift, in different shapes.
A resort group's problem is forty listings in four languages describing one property. A law firm's is that the name is the entire asset. A trading group's is that its brands don't read as related.
Brands we manage
Seventeen brands across the Maldives — several of them families. What each is, what we built or aligned, where it stands.
What's new
Rebrands, alignments, recoveries and notes from the work. We write when we've learned something specific, not on a schedule.
Prototype note. Every entry below is placeholder structure showing the pattern. Real entries need client permission and sourced facts before they ship — see content/06-work.md.
How we work, and how we don't.
What we do
- Build brands we'll still be managing in five years
- Stay after delivery
- Register everything in your name
- Design Dhivehi as an equal, not a mirror
- Say "align it" when a rebrand would earn us more
- Give staff templates easier than starting from scratch
- Make the boring phone call to the signwriter
- Hand over on request, no questions
What we don't
- Deliver a PDF and disappear
- Sell a rebrand you don't need
- Hold a domain or a file as leverage
- Release source files only on final payment
- Buy fonts on our own licence
- Use stock photography
- Lead a pitch with a percentage
- Let the signage say something the website doesn't
One brand, everywhere — your signage, your website, Google, your invoices, Dhivehi, your handles, yours.
Start with the three questions. If any of them took thought, an alignment check will answer them — two working days, no cost, no obligation, and you keep the report.