Below you can find a select few samples for portfolio purposes. Should you wish to see more samples, please contact Design-Studio.
Please click on a sample to see more information. Please scroll down for video samples.
Symbiotic Agri
Logo / Corporate Stationery
That Might Work.Info
Logo Design
Muthi Futhi
Print Design / Video
Seven Oaks
Logo / Print Design
Smartway Accounting
Logo Design
The Stable
Logo / Print Design
31 Degrees East
Logo Design
CommonBond
Logo Design
Totem
Logo Design
Symphony Web
Logo Design
InSite Advertising
Print Design / Video
DNA
Logo / Website Design
Black Diamond
Logo Design
Just Hayley
Print Design / Signage
Urban Evolution
Logo Design
Bodado Productions
Character / Animation / Video
Lee-Ann Smith
Logo Design
Enpower Training
Corporate Stationery / Print
Bodado Productions
Digital Advert Design
Enforce Security
Corporate Stationery / Print
Bumble Groove
Logo Design
Andile Jordan
Logo Design
Bejewelled
Packaging Design
Golden Horse Casino
Print Design
Amazing Grace
Print Design
Jump!
Large Format Print
EmBee
Logo / Print Design
Department of Water
Large Format Signage
Heavenly Brides
Large Format Signage
Mamma Mia's
Print Design
Mad Monks
Logo / Print / Signage
Lancôme
Digital Advert Design
VIDEO Portfolio
Below you can find a select few samples of video portfolio pieces, created with Flash. Should you wish to see more samples, please contact Design-Studio. Please click on a sample to see more information.
Youth of Choice
Animated Text Video Design
InSite Advertising
Video Advert Design
KFC
Video Advert Design
Muthi Futhi
Video Advert Design
Moosas
Video Advert Design
Siyaya
Video Advert Design
Department of Water
Animated Character Video
Mondi / Sappi
Animated Charater Video
I have recently been exploring After Effects and its capabilities. See my demo video below! Please pardon the low quality recording as I do not have a pro video camera. The intent of this video is to demonstrate a few techniques in Adobe After Effects, as well as how animation can be integrated with recorded videos. Covered in the video: Image & text animation, integration of recorded video and overlayed animations, explosion effects, created lighting and effects, audio and video matching. The video itself is still a work in progress. Please scroll up for print portfolio samples.
Symbiotic Agri, a start-up aquaponics company, needed a new logo and stationery for starting up designed, and Design-Studio assisted.
Aquaponics is the combination of aquaculture (raising and breeding of aquatic life such as fish, prawns, trout, etc. in a tank environment) and hydroponics (growing and cultivating plants in water). The client would be promoting themselves as a healthy, fresh-farmed source of freshwater fish and vegetables. We wanted to demonstrate both plant and fish aspects through the visual in the logo.
The client's initial idea for the logo was to show a tree bearing fruit, with fish and water plants below a water surface. This was done up as a visual option, but it was mutually agreed that this simpler option was more effective in communicating the company as a whole, and would be more practical in various applications (including embroidery on uniform shirts etc.). A letterhead, e-mail signature, and presentations template following the look & feel of the logo were also designed as stationery to get the company set up.
Date: 2014
Client: Ashley Pelser (Owner of Symbiotic Agri)
Category: Graphic Design
That Might Work (TMW)
Logo Design
That Might Work was started up by James and business partner Robb as an online blog expressing thoughts on various technologies, from the point of view of two people with a passion for the 'best of the best' tech products. James and Robb plan to write reviews on certain products that others 'just don't do'.
The logo design is a 'bending' of paperclips - notarisations of information, with a MacGuyver type of influence - That Might Work!
Date: 2014
Client: That Might Work
Category: Graphic Design
Muthi Futhi
Print Design / Video Design
Muthi Futhi Trust is based in Dakeni, a small village near Eshowe, Zululand, on the banks of the Tugela River, with an office in Durban. They cultivate indigenous medicinal South African plants for use in their range of products.
The poster was designed for use in their offices to display their range of tonic products, accompanying a video advert designed to play in the offices as well, as well as on taxi TV.
Date: 2011
Client: Muthi Futhi
Category: Graphic Design
Seven Oaks
Logo Design / Print Design
Seven Oaks is a convenience store / petrol station based in the Seven Oaks area in South Africa. Logo and simple tabled account application and deposit form created for the small business.
Date: 2014
Client: Seven Oaks
Category: Graphic Design
Smartway Accounting
Logo Design
Smartway accounting is a small, freelance accounting company based in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. The logo was designed to be clean, simple, and eye catching. The bright colours, bold font and simple impact of the two linked round-edged squares resulted in a logo that's hard to miss.
Date: 2014
Client: Smartway Accounting
Category: Graphic Design
The Stable
Logo Design / Print Design
The Stable is a company based in the Seven Oaks area, in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, specialising in the rehabilitation or retirement of horses. The logo was designed to demonstrate the love the company shows to horses and how loving they can be.
Date: 2014
Client: The Stable - Horse Retirement / Rebab
Category: Graphic Design
31 Degrees East
Logo Design
31 Degrees East is a photography company formed by Durban-based photographer Ruan Bezuidenhout. Durban is situated 31 degrees east (longitude), birthing the impactful name of this company.
The logo was intended to be simple and clean, just like the company name.
Date: 2015
Client: Ruan Bezuidenhout (Owner of 31 Degrees East Photography)
Category: Graphic Design
CommonBond
Logo Design
CommonBond is a company born of post grads that felt there must be a better way to financing student loans. They specialise in refinancing student loans, and needed a new logo to fit their new website and corporate image.
Their logo at the time consisted of two rounded ractangular shapes intertwining to form link-like imagery. This new logo had the same intent of showing combining of efforts for a common goal.
Date: 2015
Client: CommonBond
Category: Graphic Design
Totem
Logo Design
Totem Cocktail Bar & Live Music, based in Amanzimtoti, KwaZulu-Natal, is the concept of Amelia and partner Krystle. The logo was intended to be vibey, up-market cocktail lounge hosting live entertainment as well as gambling.
The clients had decided on blue, red and gold as their colour scheme, keeping gold to a minimum due to practicality.
Although the name is 'totem', the imagery was not necessarily required to show actual totem pole imagery, but rather imagery portraying a air of sleek sophistication.
Date: 2014
Client: Totem Cocktail Bar & Lounge
Category: Graphic Design
Symphony Web
Logo Design
Symphony Web is a division of Symphony PC. Symphony PC's logo was designed by a graphic designer in PMB, and the follow on to this, Symphony Web division, was designed by Design-Studio. The logo kept the back orange warped square background shape, and designed the globe, keeping to existing colours and existing fonts.
Date: 2010
Client: John Heathcote (Owner of Symphony PC & Symphony Web)
Category: Graphic Design
InSite Advertising
Print Design / Video
During my time working for InSite Advertising, I designed numerous video and print files for clients, as well as for InSite itself. The InSite specific projects consisted of corporate stationery (letterheads, business cards, HTML e-mail signatures, etc.), as well as video adverts showing their latest product / service offerings.
Date: 2010 - 2013
Client: InSite Advertising
Category: Graphic Design
Digital Network Advertising (DNA)
Logo Design / Website Design
DNA is the brainchild of Pietermaritzburg-based Duncan. The logo design represents a DNA 'stamp of approval'. DNA offers temporary campaign-specific taxi tv advertising in combination with taxi wraps. These are temporary, area-specific installations that a specific advertiser requires. At the end of the campaign the screens and wraps are removed. DNA also offers digital point of sale units for exhibitions.
Design-Studio created a website for DNA in 2014 to showcase the product and service offerings for DNA.
Date: 2013-2014
Client: Digital Network Advertising (DNA)
Category: Graphic Design
Black Diamond
Logo Design
Black Diamond is the name of a conceptual, start-up, up-market club promotion and event company in KwaZulu-Natal.
Date: 2009
Client: Black Diamond
Category: Graphic Design
Just Hayley Co-Ordination
Print Design / Vehicle Signage
Just Hayley is a wedding planning and events co-ordination company. Business cards and newspaper advertisements were designed to promote the business, as well as flourish vinyls for detailing on the owner's company vehicle for additional exposure.
Date: 2010
Client: Just Hayley Co-Ordination
Category: Graphic Design
Urban Evolution
Logo Design
Urban Evolution is the name of a conceptual, start-up, up-market club promotion and event company in KwaZulu-Natal.
Date: 2009
Client: Urban Evolution
Category: Graphic Design
Bodado Productions
Print Design / Video Design
Design-Studio created Mr Litter & Friends - an educational video for Bodado Productions in 2011 teaching kids not to litter, with a fun, friendly superhero-type character named Mr Litter, and his relatable kid friend who is being taught about the harm littering can do to the environment. The product was made into a DVD which was sold locally.
The character designs, animation and video editing was all done by Design-Studio.
Bodado Productions had also produced two (at the time) music CD's for children, for which Design-Studio designed the sliding booklets / CD cover, back insert and CD prints - Songs of Nature for Kids and Kids Can Sing.
Date: 2010 - 2011
Client: Bodado Productions
Category: Graphic Design
Lee-Ann Smith
Logo Design
Lee-Ann Smith is a freelance Photography, event co-ordination and stationery company. Lee-Ann liked the idea of a logo created with flourishes and scripted font, and this was the result.
Date: 2009
Client: Lee-Ann Smith
Category: Graphic Design
Enpower Training
Corporate Stationery / Print Design
Enpower Training offers a variety of courses to the public - from guard training, to handling of firearms, home-based care skills, first aid, management, Office skills and more.
Design-Studio has created a range of course brochures, training manual covers, certifcates and corporate stationery (letterheads, business cards, recruitment cards), as well as their corporate brand guide and company profile documents. Here are a few examples!
Date: 2013 - 2016
Client: Enpower Training Services
Category: Graphic Design
Glasses Online
Digital Advert Design
Design-Studio created a range of web banners and one A4 sized magazine advertfor Glasses Online in Malaysia. Their requirements were to have a range of web banners designed, all with the same imagery and promotion, but different sizes (test project).
Date: 2014
Client: Glass Online (Malaysia)
Category: Graphic Design
Enforce Security
Corporate Stationery / Print Design
Enforce Security change its CI in 2014 - with a new look and feel, new colours (bright orange and black) and a sleeker, cleaner look and feel, the company had a lot of rebranding on the horizon.
All in-house and outgoing documentation had to be rebranded, and I came on board to assist. Corporate stationery, tender covers, tender documentation layout, adverts, vehicles, forms, etc. all had to be redesigned. I worked in conjunction with a senior level designer in ensuring that all rebranded documents followed the new CI.
I had the correct layout, set CI standards, error checked all documentation, redesigned the tender covers in accordance to the new holding group look and feel and ensured that outgoing tenders met a set standard, layout and alignment, and created newsletters (with supplied text, which I checked and edited) with crime stat infographics on a bi-monthly basis.
Date: 2013 - 2016
Client: Enforce Security
Category: Graphic Design
Bumble Groove Records
Logo Design
Logo design for a start-up recording studio based in Durban area, KwaZulu-Natal.
Date: 2012
Client: James Michael Ryan (Owner of Bumble Groove Records)
Category: Graphic Design
Andile Jordan
Logo Design
Andile Jordan is an established accountant with his own business in Pietermaritzburg. When he decided to also pursue his passion of event photography, he approached Design-Studio for a new logo, and we're looking at doing up a new website for the company in the future.
The logo was designed with a yellow background, per Andile's request. This is intended as a way of standing out amongst competitors.
Date: 2015
Client: Andile Jordan
Category: Graphic Design
Bejewelled
Packaging Design
Bejewelled - a local beaded jewellery business in Pietermaritzburg needed packaging designed for earrings, bracelets, keyrings and necklaces. This packaging design layout for print allowed for all of these jewellery items. The star markers were pierced to allow for the jewellery to be placed firmly in the packaging, and products were then plastic wrapped for a neat look, and to avoid products tangling with each other.
Date: 2012
Client: Bejewelled
Category: Packaging Design
Golden Horse Casino Easter Advert
Print (Newspaper)
Easter newspaper advert design for Golden Horse Casino in Pietermaritzburg.
Date: 2009
Client: Golden Horse
Category: Graphic Design
Amazing Grace
Digital Advert Design
Grace van der Westhuizen runs her own business in her free time offering baby sitting, house sitting and pet sitting services in Pietermaritzburg. This advert was designed to get the word out there, predominantly on social media platforms.
Date: 2015
Client: Amazing Grace
Category: Graphic Design
Jump! Trailer
Large Format Signage
Jump! wanted trailer signage designed to show that they had jumping castles and water slides on hire for children's birthday parties. We designed a trailer to appeal to kids/ parents with kids - friendly cartoon characters, bright, bold colours and clear, easy to see information.
Date: 2012
Client: Imtiaz Amod
Category: Signage Design
Embee
Logo Design / Business Card Design
Embee creates delightful dolls, fashionable zip handbags, decorative scatter cushions and other crafts, made to request. Embee needed a logo design representing the kid-friendly brightness of this company, and business cards for exposure, and Design-Studio assisted.
Date: 2015
Client: Moyra Gilson (Owner of Embee)
Category: Graphic Design
Department of Water
Large Format Signage
Vinyl print design for application on the side of kombi taxis. The signage layout accommodated for the door opening areas, vehicle ridges, etc. Animated adverts were also created for The Department of Water, for educational purposes.
Date: 2012
Client: Department of Water
Category: Graphic / Signage Design
Heavenly Brides
Large Format Signage Design
Vinyl print design for application on the side of kombi taxis. The signage layout accommodated for the door opening areas, vehicle ridges, etc.
Date:
Client:
Category: Graphic Design
Mamma Mia's Menu
Print Design
Design and printing of new-style menu for Mamma Mia's Italian Restaurant in Pietermaritzburg.
Date: 2012
Client: Mamma Mia's Restaurant
Category: Graphic Design
Mad Monks
Logo Design / Menu Design / Signage Design
Design of logo, menu, signage and leaflets for Mad Monks - a start-up coffee and light meals establishment based in Hillcrest, KwaZulu-Natal.
Date: 2015
Client: Mad Monks
Category: Graphic Design
Lancôme
Digital Advert Design
Design of web banners for Lancôme for digital projections on social media platforms in Malaysia (test project).
Date:
Client:
Category: Graphic Design
Youth of Choice
Text Video Animation
Design of text-based animation with call for action to get youth interested in and participating in world-change.
The intention of this video is to capture the attention of youth and make them aware of the changes that can be made with just a little effort.
(Non-profit organisation.)
Date: 2012
Client: Youth of Choice
Category: Flash Animation
InSite Advertising
Animated Video Advert
Animated advertisement showing various animation techniques with Flash - ring animation, fades, building fade in through keyframe animation, size animation, etc.
Date: 2012
Client: InSite Advertising
Category: Flash Animation
KFC
Video Advert Design
Design of simple video advertisement for placement in taxis, advertising KFC products on special. The text would need to be big and clear so as to allow it to be visible from all seating areas of the taxi. Created with Flash.
Date: 2013
Client: KFC
Category: Flash Animation
Muthi Futhi
Video Advert Design
Design of Flash animated video advert for Muthi Futhi for play on TV screens inside taxis, and on TV screens inside Muthi Futhi store branches.
Date: 2011
Client: Muthi Futhi
Category: Flash Animation
Moosa's Discount Warehouse
Video Advert Design
Design of video advertisement for Moosa's warehouse on a weekly basis in taxis, advertising the latest specials on offer. Simple, bold advertising so as to be visible from a distance.
Date: 2010
Client: Moosa's Discount Warehouse
Category: Flash Animation
Siyaya Pick 'n Save
Video Advert Design
Design of Flash animated advertisement for play in taxis, for Siyaya Pick 'n Save, advertising the latest specials and keeping in line with the savings themes ('Back to School', 'Easter', 'Christmas', etc.). Bold, simple advertising for legibility.
Date: 2010
Client: Siyaya
Category: Flash Animation
Department of Water
Video Advert Design
Redraw of Department of Water character and implementation into character animated advertisement. Drawing of elements supporting the character and message. 3 part advertisement for the Department of Water (proposal), on tips for saving water.
Note: this was a rough, proposal video.
Date: 2013
Client: Department of Water
Category: Flash Animation / Character Animation
Sappi / Mondi
Safety Instructional Video Design
Visual instructional video plan for Mondi / Sappi paper plants, instructing the workers on how to safely work without injury, through an informative but fun video. The video needed to work on its own, without audio, as the video would be played in tractors etc. before starting up the engine, so they could go about their day with the instructions fresh in their minds. As they might have their own audio playing, this advert was, as instructed, understandable without audio.
Note: this was a rough, proposal video.
Date: 2013
Client: Paper Plants Mondi and Sappi
Category: Flash Animation / Character Animation
Design-Studio Animation
After Effects Video Trial
This video was a project testing the effects in After Effects (self-taught - amateur project) - lighting, explosions, intergration of video and audio recordings with an overlay of animation, etc.