Project 04 / 04Âncora Clube
Âncora Clube
Instagram content designed to offer a moment of pause in the noise of everyday life.
Result: Kept on since 2024: every new post still starts from the same system
- Role
- Social content design
- Client
- Âncora Clube
- Timeline
- 2024 to today, ongoing
- Deliverables
- Instagram system and posts
01The problem
Thoughtful content competes with an endless feed. If it does not slow the scroll in one second, it is not read.
02Research
- Looked at the club's account before: posts made one by one, each with its own look, so the feed never read as one voice
- Most of the content is explanation, for people who scroll past quickly: the idea had to land from the cover alone
03Why build it
- Why it mattered
- The club has ideas worth slowing down for, and the feed rewards the opposite. Posts made one by one never built a voice people would recognise.
- The bet
- If every post shares one calm system, people will know the account at a glance, stop for it, and save what is useful.
- How I'd know it worked
- Saves and shares over time, the signs someone wanted to keep a post or pass it on.
04How I built it
Built a calm visual system that holds up across every post
WhyA small team posts for years. With a system, each new post starts halfway done and still looks like the account, without a designer rebuilding it each time.
Paired strong typography with archive imagery to carry the message
WhyMost people only read the cover. Strong type lands the idea in one line, and archive photos give it weight and a sense of history.
Kept a consistent rhythm so the account reads as one voice
WhyRecognition comes from repetition. Recurring formats, like the monthly calendar, give people a reason to come back and something worth saving.
05Why this way
Carousels for anything that needs explaining
The cover asks the question and the next slides answer it, so one post can hold an idea without shrinking the text.
Set asideLong captions under a single image, which few people open
Key words highlighted in teal
Someone who only skims still reads the three words that matter.
Recurring formats, like the monthly calendar
A post people can recognise from a distance, and save, gives the account a rhythm and a reason to come back.
06What I tested
Tested
Watched which posts people saved and shared as the account went on
What changed
Recurring, useful posts like the calendar became fixed formats, and explanations moved to carousels
07The feed
ancoraclube
86 likes · 4 comments · 9 shares
ancoraclube Já ouviste falar do Opus Dei mas não sabes bem o que é? 🤔 Desliza para descobrir →
12 September
ancoraclube
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ancoraclube O calendário de setembro e outubro já chegou ⚓ Guarda este post para não perderes nada!
2 September
The first post is a carousel. Swipe it, or use the arrow, the way it was read in the feed.
08The look
Colours · tap one to copy it
Typeface · write your name in it
Calendário Âncora
09The result
A feed that feels like a pause rather than another interruption. What I took from it: a system is what lets a small team keep posting well for years, not a single great post.