Branding and campaigns
We specialise in slick but effective branding that communicates clearly and unambiguously and is easy for the end-user to understand.
Please see below for examples of some of our previous projects, which includes work for a broad range of clients, from Unilever to Unesco.
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Branding and campaigns
We specialise in slick but effective branding that communicates clearly and unambiguously and is easy for the end-user to understand. Please see below for examples of some of our previous projects, which includes work for a broad range of clients, from Unilever to Unesco.
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'Create Durban' logo for eThekwini Municipality
Create Durban was the follow-up project to Imagine Durban, which explored new ways to imagine the city of Durban/eThekwini. The new logo needed to illustrate both creativity and the notion of building upon what has come before.
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new logo
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previous logo
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'Create Durban' logo for eThekwini Municipality
Create Durban was the follow-up project to Imagine Durban, which explored new ways to imagine the city of Durban/eThekwini. The new logo needed to illustrate both creativity and the notion of building upon what has come before.
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outdoor media
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outdoor media
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outdoor media
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outdoor media
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outdoor media
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outdoor media
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Unilever truck branding for The Hardy Boys agency
This truck-branding campaign was about expanding the consumer's relationship with Unilever and their bouquet of products. Rather than taking a conceptual approach, this solution builds on the cumulative impact of existing product branding.
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business card
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back of business card
previous logo
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New visual identity for Property Chartered Surveyors
This revised visual identity needed to reflect the intersection between engineering and architecture. The building you see rendered on the business card is one of the most iconic structures in the city of Durban where PCS do business.
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street-pole posters
banners
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event poster
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t-shirt
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Promotional elements for the British Council's Zero Carbon City campaign
These posters had to conform to an existing look-and-feel that was part of a global campaign. The fonts and photostatted texture were prescribed by the client. The posters needed to be simply executed and easily readable from street level.
revised logo
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previous logo
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Revised logo for Durban International Film Festival
This update of the Durban International Film Festival logo needed to include the corporate colours of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (which provides a home to the festival) while retaining the film reel as a visual reference.
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street-pole posters
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poster
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poster
t-shirt
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t-shirt
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postcard
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postcard
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banner
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Promotional elements for the Community Punching Bags exhibition at the KZNSA Gallery
The Community Punching Bags art project addressed violence in a collaborative and creative way. The visuals of the punching bags were so strong that they didn't much assistance from design, other than a generous helping of white space!
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revised logo
business cards
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swing tag
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necklace card
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earring card
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website home page
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website product page
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previous logo
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Complete Branding for The Zulu Beadwork Project
This logo design needed to reference traditional Zulu beading while avoiding an outdated notion of beading-as-curio and ensuring a look-and-feel that is at home in the 21st century. We also provided the product shots for the website.
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posters
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posters
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posters
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Poster series for seminars at the KZNSA Gallery
These beautifully designed posters, which we cheekily based on our own logo, were produced as large-format black-and-white photostats, using a super-cheap medium to optimal effect. The seminars explored the relationship between art and writing.
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event posters
certificates of
participation
participation
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certificates of
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participation
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outdoor banners
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Posters for the British Council's Dream+Teams sports programme
The brilliant Dreams+Teams programme encourages sports development in under-privileged schools. These posters for a sports day taking place in schools across KZN province needed to be simple, effective and make the children the stars.
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logo design
business cards
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price tag
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sale banner
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website home page
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website shop page
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Complete branding for Mint - the Retired Goods Company
We spent a long time coming up with the right name and payoff line for a store that specialised in retro goods. When 'Mint' arrived it was perfect. The pink heart appears all over Durban in the form of vinyl stickers on customers' cars.
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film poster
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film poster
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Poster for the film 'Ayanda'
These design options were commissioned by filmmaker Sara Blecher. Unfortunately, the producers chose an alternative design but we're still very happy with the artwork for the options we supplied.
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flyers
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Flyers promoting the SEM Reading Room at the KZNSA Gallery
This series of single-colour flyers were used to promote the launch of a reading room at the KZNSA gallery. The glasses, which are superimposed on iconic artworks, were also used in the branding on the reading room's windows.
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logo design
two-colour logo
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single-colour logo
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letterhead
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membership card
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Visual identity for homeless people's movement Abahlali baseMjondolo
This visual identity for Abahlali baseMjondolo was workshopped with the movement's leadership at the time. It has since been reproduced in a variety of forms and works equally well as a single-colour variant.
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revised logo
business cards
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email signature
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letterhead
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website
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previous logo
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Revised Visual identity for East Coast Architects
This updated visual identity for East Coast Architects needed to retain a reference to a hand-drawn strelitzia leaf that had been an element of the previous logo, while providing a fresh and contemporary new look-and-feel.
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posters
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Poster campaign for 'Get Eaten Half Baked'
Get Eaten Half Baked make a range of wonderful bags. Each of the bags featured in these slightly surreal posters was inspired by the woman featured in the poster. The photographs and Photoshop work was provided by The Communication Factory.
flyer
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back of flyer
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General-purpose flyer for the Durban Art Gallery
The Durban Art Gallery offers a wealth of contemporary and historical fine art within a highly formalised space. This general-purpose flyer tries to express both the formalism and diversity of the gallery's approach to curation.
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Flyer for Max Normal at the KZNSA Gallery
This flyer for one of musician Waddy Jones' many incarnations before he hit the big time with Die Antwoord reflects the general absurdity and sharp, off-the-wall style of Max Normal.TV, his band at the time.
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event invite
back of invite
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exhibition invite
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back of invite
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invite for launch of municipal products
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back of invite
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Invite for the launch of the book 'Durban - A Paradise and its People'
This series of invites to the launch of 'Durban - A Paradise and its People' needed to reflect the intrinsic optimism of the book. The images used for the invite, as with many of the photographs in the book, were taken by Peter Machen.
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event invite
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back of event invite
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Invite for 'Unit for Measure' by Bronwyn Lace and Vaughn Sadie at the Durban Art Gallery
This exhibition featured separate but overlapping installations from these two acclaimed artists. The invitation needed to include the works of both artists and reflect the ways in which the pieces spoke to each other.
