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Every story starts with a blank page. For us, this is the most exciting part of any project. We open a new page and take a fresh look at your branding, user experience or visual design requirements before bringing your project to life.

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What we do

We are creative storytellers that work alongside brands to craft exceptional experiences through visual design, user experience, advertising, and more. We focus on what makes your story unique and together build emotional journies for your products and services across all mediums. Our goal – help you learn how to talk to your customers, build brand loyalty and increase retention. Read More

Storytelling Services

As experienced brand storytellers, we focus is on what makes your company and brand unique. We craft emotive stories that speak to your customers whether that be through design, user experience, or advertising.

 

Branding
User Experience
Visual Design
Advertising

Branding

Only through understanding your uniqueness can you then present yourself to the world. We help you focus on your brand identity, USPs, and how to use typography, colour, tone of voice, and photography, to stand out from the crowd. Our award-winning designers can produce detailed logos & insignias, style guides, and design systems that build brand awareness, increase customer loyalty and enable in-house teams to stay on target.

User Experience Design

We are adept across the entire UX/UI lifecycle and pride ourselves on taking experiences from good to great. Planning, ideation, prototyping, iteration, implementation, and refining user journeys that enhance customer satisfaction and overcome pain points. Capable of gathering and translating detailed business requirements into coherent functional specs, wireframes, stories, prototypes and flows.

Visual Design

Our award-winning design team crafts impactful, original, and inspiring visual designs across various digital applications, print and film. We meet brand and business objectives through creative thinking and clear visual communication. Building consensus around a creative vision by interpreting complex business requirements and translating them into functional and intuitive pixel-perfect design solutions.

Advertising

Campaign management, content creation, and competitor analysis form part of our UX/UI and brand offering. SEO, SEM, PPC, social, and analytics are additional services handled on a retainer or one-off basis.

Who we have worked with

To save you from heading over to our Portfolio page, here’s a brief snapshot of some brands that we have worked with over the years.

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Astrazenica
Aston Martin
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Bwana Makubwa

/ B-Wan-A Ma-Kub-Wa / – What does it mean?

“We like to think that we work with you, not for you.”
– Barnaby O’Connor Founder & Director

Collaboration, exploration, evaluation, and refinement of an idea or story works best when tackled as part of a tight-knit team dedicated to inspiring their audience. Helping businesses achieve this has been our goal for over 15 years.

 

/ B-Wan-A Ma-Kub-Wa /

After successfully working for several design firms and dot-com startups, Bwana Makubwas founder Barnaby O’Connor decided that it was time to start his own boutique design agency. 

Stumped by what to name this new digital enterprise, he referred back to his African childhood, where the person in charge, he remembers, was always known as Bwana, Swahili for the Boss. And so the company was born. Although tricky to pronounce and spell in the western world, the domain name is a golden nugget to anyone from the Swahili coast.

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