San Diego · Cascais
Of two seas
In 1520 Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese navigator, sailed out of the strait at the tip of South America into an ocean so calm that he named it Pacific. The two seas had always been joined. Someone had to measure the way through.
Duomaris starts from the same place. It is a private group with a life on two coasts, the Pacific and the Atlantic, and one way of working on both. Measure first. Decide on evidence. Build things that last.
The name says where we are from. The standard says how we work.
The name
The name joins two Latin words, duo, two, and maris, of the sea. We read it as of two seas, after the two coasts we call home, San Diego on the Pacific and Cascais on the Atlantic.
The tagline
Two seas. One standard. In Portuguese, Dois mares. Um padrão. A padrão is a standard, and it is also the stone pillar the navigators raised on every new coast. The brand lives in both senses.
The mark
Two circles of equal size touch at a single point. Keep only the arcs nearest that point and they form an x, the unknown of algebra, found where two lines meet.
The western arc is the Pacific, on the left as on a map. The eastern arc is the Atlantic. Each arc is cut like the stroke of a broad nib pen, thick at the meeting point and fine at the ends.
Who we are
Duomaris was founded by Pedro Castro Santos, who works between San Diego and Cascais.