JHB

(Portfolio) Branding, web design and the code that ships.

Someone reclining on a sofa at twilight holding a tablet, the Veld Architects residential projects page open on it, the highveld and its hills through the glass behind.

A tablet at dusk, a hospital desk mid-morning. Most of this work is met that way: on someone else’s screen, in the middle of their day, by a person who came for one thing and leaves once they have it.

A laptop on a desk in a hospital administration office, the IntriVIEW page open on it, an IntriHEALTH brochure and a notebook beside it and the hospital through the window.

A selection of the work, grouped by what it took to make.

Twenty years, four names: ilovelvet, Smartdesign, Niche Speak, Graaft. Designed and built; the credits in these screens are mine.

The South China Clothing mark as a white neon blade sign over a wet Hong Kong street at night.Identity One corporate clothing spec, four cities The Officine Italia mark: a Venetian gondola and gondolier in black silhouette above the wordmark.Experiences Three ways into Italy, from Johannesburg An architect's office at dusk with the Veld Architects site open on a laptop.Practice Twenty years of houses, philosophy second The Social Link Recruitment lockup: a multicoloured heart of clustered dots beside the wordmark.Portal Carers placed, one shift at a time A sheet of CT slices held against a clinical interior, the IntriHEALTH mark over it.Platform Africa's largest clinical image archive A grey whippet lying centred on a deep-buttoned grey velvet sofa, its head turned to look past the camera, the DM&A lockup and Interior Architectural Design set across the sofa back above it.Book Private homes, luxury hotel interiors The ANS mark: layered orange and red chevrons beside the Australian Niugini Services wordmark.Trade A mark for the Australia⁠–⁠PNG corridor A nurse checking a small child in a consulting room.Product One immunisation record, three readers A worn Oiltech hard hat on a workshop bench beside a laptop showing the Oiltech Systems site, a fitter working on a cylinder behind.Identity An identity for forty years of hydraulics Three Urban Barista coffee bags in duck-egg teal, each carrying a large number in coral, ochre or mustard.Packaging Three roasts you order by number A woman in a pale blue coat carrying a Fine Living bag past the Sandton storefront, the shop sign above her.Storefront A 600m² showroom, on every surface The Ogese Group wordmark in gold over a dark world map traced with city lights.Group One parent mark, three businesses A black swing tag on a cotton string hanging against deep grey buttoned velvet, the YSD monogram embossed on it.Furniture Every sofa named after a stone

Learning someone else’s trade is most of the job.

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Estuary Firebreaks. Brand and website, 2012.

An old white ute parked on a freshly slashed block outside Mandurah at the end of the afternoon, gums behind it, the Estuary Firebreaks mark signwritten on its door above the words Block Slashing and Rotary Hoeing.