Emma Guardia

A bold identity and conceptual portrait campaign for a next-generation real estate team

Conceptual portrait of Emma Guardia over a bold red background with minimal typography for her modern real estate branding campaign.

Client
Emma Guardia

Sector 
Residential Real Estate / Agent Branding

Location
Cambridge, MA

Discipline
Brand Strategy, Brand Identity, Advertising, Photography, Signage

Collaborators
Photography: Stephen Sherman
Stylist: Chloe Barcelou

Bold red monogram of the letter E representing the Emma Guardia real estate brand identity.

About this project

The Emma Guardia Team is a Millennial-led real estate group redefining how homes are bought and sold in Cambridge and greater Boston. In a market crowded with templated marks and generic lifestyle imagery, the brand needed a visual language with clarity, confidence, and immediate recognition.

We centered the identity on a single, unmistakable idea: the letter E. Drawn as a bold, architectural form, the mark is simple, reductive, and designed to read instantly at street scale. A restrained palette of red, black, and white reinforces precision and confidence, allowing the identity to feel graphic, modern, and highly legible across environments.

Rather than relying on conventional real estate photography, the campaign uses conceptual portraiture to make the agent the brand. Stylized portraits of Emma, paired with short, declarative language, create a system where logo, typography, and imagery work as one. The result is a brand that replaces cliché with personality and positions Emma Guardia as both subject and signature.

lack business card featuring the bold red E monogram for the Emma Guardia Team’s modern real estate identity.

The business card applies the monogram with strict clarity, reducing the identity to its essential graphic signal.

Magazine ad featuring a humorous conceptual portrait of Emma Guardia with bold red graphics and a quick-read message for her real estate branding campaign.
Magazine ad featuring a humorous conceptual portrait of Emma Guardia with bold red graphics and a quick-read message for her real estate branding campaign.

We partnered with Stephen Sherman for his luminous portrait photography and Chloe Barcelou for her exceptional styling, creating imagery that feels both crafted and effortless.

Transit ad featuring a humorous conceptual portrait of Emma Guardia with bold red graphics and a quick-read message for her real estate branding campaign.

The identity established a distinct and highly visible presence in Cambridge. The reductive red system and conceptual portrait campaign created instant recognition across print, transit, and digital placements, giving the Emma Guardia Team a confident, modern platform built for clarity, personality, and long-term differentiation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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