A creative studio in Costa Rica. We know — there are several.


The difference, or our version of it: we've run the kind of business you run. So we're not guessing what makes someone book — we're remembering it. For the hospitality, wellness and lifestyle people who built something good in person and are tired of watching it get flattened online.

We're a small studio on the Nicoya Peninsula that takes the whole job off your desk — brand, creative direction, photo and video, and the posting itself. Then we go surf.

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What we do

Four things. Done properly.

Social media management


We run the whole account — planning, posting, replying, the parts nobody has time for — so it sounds like you on a good day, every day.

Content
production


Photo, video, and the vertical stuff, shot on the day your place looks like the reason people come — by the two of us, not rented for the day.

A tablet and stylus showing a brand design in progress — content production by OLA Creative Studio
A tablet and stylus showing a brand design in progress — content production by OLA Creative Studio
An illustration of a lightbulb with a brain inside, representing ideas and creative thinking, by OLA Creative Studio
An illustration of a lightbulb with a brain inside, representing ideas and creative thinking, by OLA Creative Studio
An outline illustration of a camera in orange line work, representing photography and content production, by OLA Creative Studio
An outline illustration of a camera in orange line work, representing photography and content production, by OLA Creative Studio
An outline illustration of a smartphone with social media icons and a plus sign, representing social media and digital connection, by OLA Creative Studio
An outline illustration of a smartphone with social media icons and a plus sign, representing social media and digital connection, by OLA Creative Studio

Strategic
consulting


Advice from people who've actually run restaurants, bars and hotels — for when what you need isn't a campaign, it's someone who'll tell you the truth.

Creative direction & branding


The menu, the signage, the packaging, the feed — all looking like they came from the same place. Because right now they probably don't.

Things we've made

A styled interior with a potted plant, a coffee table with books and a lamp, a beige armchair, and a wooden room divider, by OLA Creative Studio

Mad Living

They were showing the furniture. Not the people who make it, or the artwork that goes into it.


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Colorful jewelry displayed on a table at Apartado Creativo — retail styling by OLA

Apartado Creativo

A store full of other people's brands. Our job was making it sound like its own.



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A close-up of candles and black bottles styled on a shelf, including a pink striped candle and a box of lava stone, by OLA Creative Studio

Unikko

The products come from everywhere. The logo, brand and feed came from us.



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Food photography for Hamburguesía, a Costa Rican better-burger restaurant, by OLA

Hamburguesía

A better burger, Costa Rican–owned restaurant, that finally looks the part.



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About OLA
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Kristel + Álvaro — the two people behind OLA.

We both worked with Adidas. Him in Germany, her in Costa Rica.

We're married, both Costa Rican, both with a bit of German somewhere in the family — which comes in handy on this coast more often than you'd think. The whole studio is the two of us: you'll be dealing with us start to finish, which is either a feature or a liability, depending on how you feel about account managers.

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That‘s the whole pitch

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