Agency: Arc SAClient: City of Cape TownAccount Manager: Leana HubbardDTP: Junaid JacobsProofreading: Janine Brits Project Brief The City of Cape Town needed their Annual Report 2022/23 to be redesigned, a document showcasing the city’s achievements, financial performance, and strategic initiatives over the year. The objective was to present complex information in a visually engaging and easily digestible format while strictly adhering to the City’s...

Agency: Arc SAClient: City of Cape TownProject Manager: Leana HubbardDTP: Junaid JacobsProofreading: Janine Brits Project Brief The City of Cape Town approached me via the Arc SA agency to design an engaging and professional layout for their “Procurement Transparency Report 2021/22.” The goal was to present complex data and insights in a way that is visually accessible and easy to navigate. The report needed...

For Unseen Veins, a poignant collection of poetry by Natasha Devalia, I was tasked with creating a cover that encapsulates the intricate and deeply personal themes of identity, heritage, and belonging explored in the collection. The design needed to visually represent the complexity of navigating cultural labels and the freedom to choose one’s own path. The cover features a delicate balance of subtle textures...

Design agency: Arc SAClient: City of Cape TownProject Manager: Leana HubbardDTP: Junaid JacobsProofreading: Janine Brits Project Brief The City of Cape Town tasked me with designing a comprehensive and user-friendly layout for their “Council Overview Handbook.” This handbook serves as an orientation guide, offering key information about the municipality, including its structure, finances, service delivery, and strategic priorities. The design needed to convey professionalism and...

Design studio: Otto CreativeClient: SADC This publication has been produced with the assistance of the European Union. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of SADC and GWP and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Nexus Dialogue Project “Fostering Water, Energy and Food (WEF) Security Nexus Dialogue and...

Jonathan Ball Publisher requested that strong type carried this design. The type had to be punchy – while not looking too much like an echo of the author’s previous book published by Wits Press (South Africa’s Suspended Revolution), which had a gritty, blocky type and was very yellow. The challenge here was for the cover not too look too much like an academic book, or a...

Client: Lapa PublishersAgency: Flame Design ’n Spannende, ontroerende roman oor vyf geslagte waarin die sondes van die vaders aan die kinders besoek word. Laat in die 1800’s word ’n graf geskend. Vandag sit ’n jong prokureur met ’n grondeis waarvan hy niks verstaan...

Client: Penguin Books South Africa Agency: Flame Design After an unexpected request from his father, Henry Knott returns to the Karoo farm on which he spent a fractured childhood. Painful memories force him to revisit a tragedy in which he was fatefully implicated. Henry has to come to terms with how this event has shaped his adult life, his marriage and the conflicted emotions...

Client: Lapa Publishers Agency: Flame Design Snydokter is in die eerste plek ‘n spanningsroman deur een van ons land se bekendste skrywers, Leon van Nierop. Maar dis meer as ‘n roman. Dis ook die resultaat van ‘n sosialmediaveldtog waarmee LAPA uitgewers se reklameagentskap twee Pendorings gewen het. Die roman het onstaan as deel van Die hoofkarakter-veldtog in 2012. Die publiek is uitgenooi om raaisels...