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Nimi Pretorius
proCape Town, South Africa
Building brands people feel something for
New to Contra
Building brands people feel something for
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SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS A catalyst for African growth: the SAA corporate identity guide Strategic planning, creative direction and copywriting for the corporate identity guide of a national airline and a national symbol. THE STORY There are brands that carry weight in the literal sense. And then there are brands that carry weight in every other sense. South African Airways is both. As the national carrier of South Africa and one of the continent's longest-running airlines, SAA represents something beyond its routes and its fleet. It represents a country, a continent, an idea of what Africa is becoming and what it deserves to be. When I took this brief I understood that the stakes were not just creative. They were cultural. The CI guide I developed for SAA had to hold all of that without buckling under it. It needed to give every person who touched the brand, from cabin crew to marketing managers to external agencies across the world, a clear and inspiring sense of what SAA stood for and how that should show up in everything they did. The platform we built was "A Catalyst for African Growth." Vibrant, cosmopolitan, contemporary. A carrier that didn't just fly people to destinations but believed in the destinations themselves. The guide covered brand assets, tone of voice, photographic style, colour, typography and the full brand narrative. Every word was written to inspire as much as to instruct. The simplest line in the whole document took the longest to write. It always does. WHAT IT TAUGHT ME That the most important reader of a brand guide is not the designer. It's the person who has never thought about brand before and needs to understand, in plain and beautiful language, why any of this matters at all.
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CALIBRE LIFE SCIENCE Creating immunity for Africa, from Africa: brand strategy, creative direction and copywriting for a life science engineering firm Brand strategy, manifesto, creative direction, content strategy and ongoing copywriting for a pharmaceutical and biotech facility engineering company. THE STORY There are industries where the stakes are abstract. And then there are industries where the stakes are people's lives. Calibre Life Science designs, builds and validates the facilities where medicine is made. Sterile pharmaceutical environments, biosafety laboratories, large-scale production facilities across the continent. The work is technical, precise, and unforgiving in ways most people never see. The challenge wasn't understanding what they did. It was finding language that could carry the weight of it without collapsing under the gravity. The platform I built centres on a single idea: the line. Every facility begins with a line of intention. A line that has to hold through design, through build, through validation, all the way to the moment production comes online and the system either proves itself or it doesn't. Design. Build. Validate. Not three separate phases. One continuous commitment. The manifesto came first and set the temperature for everything that followed. The content strategy extended the voice across thirteen LinkedIn posts in the first calendar, each anchored to a pillar and written to sound like people who knew exactly what they were doing and felt no need to shout about it. Precise. Direct. Quietly certain. Writing for this industry taught me something I didn't expect. The engineers building these facilities will never meet the patients whose medicine is made inside them. But they think about them anyway. That's what the writing had to hold. WHAT IT TAUGHT ME That gravity is a gift. When the work genuinely matters, you don't have to manufacture meaning. You just have to get out of the way and let it speak.
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AMBER ROSE NOBLE A name worth remembering: naming and creative direction for a feminist graphic novelist Naming and creative direction for the personal brand of a graphic novelist and feminist voice. THE STORY A writer's name is their first piece of writing. It sets a tone before a single word of the work has been read. When this graphic novelist came to me, she needed something that could carry the weight of her voice and the breadth of her work. Something that felt like a person and a position at the same time. Amber Rose Noble. The name arrived with its own quiet authority. Warm but grounded. Feminine without being soft. The kind of name that looks right on a book cover and sounds right when someone says it out loud for the first time. The creative direction followed from the name's personality. A diamond mark in blush and red, sitting at the intersection of femininity and precision. Typography that is elegant without being delicate. A colour palette that feels intimate and bold in equal measure. The identity needed to work across everything from a notebook to a silk scarf, and it does, because it was built around a single clear idea of who this person is and what she stands for. When your work is about giving women a voice, your brand needs to have one too. WHAT IT TAUGHT ME That naming a person is different from naming a product. A product can be anything you decide it is. A person already knows who they are. Your job is just to help them say it.
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When less is the whole point: brand development for Sigma Advisory Brand direction, visual identity and creative positioning for a private wealth advisory firm. THE STORY Financial advisory is a category where everyone says the same things. Trust. Expertise. Partnership. The words have been borrowed so many times they've stopped meaning anything. Sigma Advisory is a firm that helps growth-minded businesses replace operational chaos with clear systems and capable leadership. The work is serious and the clients are serious. What they needed wasn't a louder way to say the usual things. They needed a brand that could hold the same quiet authority they hold in a room. Deep navy. Clean serif. A horizontal rule that separates the name into two parts without breaking it. Nothing decorative. Nothing that reaches. The identity doesn't announce itself. It assumes its own credibility, which is exactly how the firm operates. The voice followed the same logic. Clarity as confidence, not performance. WHAT IT TAUGHT ME Restraint is a decision that has to be made repeatedly. Every element you leave out is a choice. The discipline is in knowing what the brand can carry without being said.
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Rebecca Hayter
Cape Town, South Africa
Creative Director/Creative All-Rounder
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Ocean Beings
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Go That Way Brochures
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Runningman Festival
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Restaurants in Cape Town
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William Jarman
Cape Town, South Africa
3D, Motion, Brand and Web Designer.
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3D, Motion, Brand and Web Designer.
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Foods Direct Branding First Post in this awesome community!🙌🔥. I am so excited to be here! 😃 In my latest work I recently partnered with Foods Direct, a leading supplier of retail glass products. Creating a refreshed brand identity as well as recreating their glass range in hyper realistic 3D, part of a larger design system built to scale with the brand in their new era. I will share sneak peaks of the website design soon, we also have some motion graphics in the pipeline 😉 .
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Powerlogic Digital and Visual Identity Redesign
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Created a 3D Design System and Motion Graphics For Altify
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Visual Identity and Digital Presence for Circuit
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Ingrid van der Walt
Cape Town, South Africa
Senior producer, director & photographer for hire - Africa
New to Contra
Senior producer, director & photographer for hire - Africa
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African Union Citizens' Talk, Ghana, 2023. Producer, director, photographer. Agriculture documentary following a cocoa farmer, shot on location with a local Ghanaian crew.
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Field producer, director, and photographer on a documentary project exploring waste burning and its impact on communities in Sharpeville. Working with a single cinematographer, I spent time embedded in and around active waste sites and open burning areas — producing, directing, and shooting stills on the ground. The work required patience, trust-building, and a sustained presence in a difficult environment to capture the human reality behind an environmental story.
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Clean Air Fund — Ghana (Zero Waste Accra) Field producer, director, and photographer for a documentary spotlighting the Green Africa Youth Organization's Zero Waste Accra project, commissioned by the Clean Air Fund. Shot on location in Accra, following informal waste workers and community recycling initiatives tackling air pollution and climate change. Work included field production, on-ground interviews, directing, and location photography — including chasing active waste fires to document the human and environmental reality on the ground.
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UNICEF South Sudan, 2023. Director, producer & photographer on a child marriage campaign. Sensitive field interviews, documentary photography. Shorty Impact Award: Silver, Human Rights.
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Shaun Williams
Cape Town, South Africa
I help creative teams accelerate with AI
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I help creative teams accelerate with AI
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Filmmaking with AI can get overwhelming fast. Not because the tools are difficult to use. But because the blank page is brutal. You have a feeling. A theme. A visual world. Maybe even a character. But turning that into an actual story, scene by scene, is where a lot of creative filmmakers get stuck (myself included). I’ve wanted to tell stories around the idea of escapism for a long time. And the thing I keep running into is creative block around one simple question: Where do I start? Lately, I’ve been experimenting with a much simpler entry point: Start with the movie poster. Not the whole film. Not the full script. Not the shot list. Just the poster. Because the moment you can visualize your film as if it’s already going into cinemas, something shifts. The title becomes real. The premise becomes clearer. The mood sharpens. The character starts to exist. And suddenly the story feels less abstract and more buildable. I used FLORA Techniques to templatize the process so it’s reusable, which means I’m not rebuilding the workflow from scratch every time. I can lock the core visual idea, drop in the character, movie title, refine the tone, and generate a poster that feels like the beginning of a real film world. From there, I animated it in a very simple way: Subtle lighting movement, a blink, just enough to make the image feel alive (using Kling AI 3.0 Pro). And that’s the point. Not to pretend the film is finished. But to create a starting point that’s emotionally strong enough to pull me into making the rest of it. I think this can be useful for a lot of filmmakers and gen AI creators. Especially the ones who already have a story they feel… …but don’t yet know how to begin shaping it. A poster won’t write the film for you. But it can give your vision a face. A title. A tone. A reason to build the full story. Sometimes that’s all you need to get the filmmaking process moving. My submission for the FLORA x Contra Techniques challenge. You can give it a run yourself here: https://app.flora.ai/techniques/movie-promo-poster-animation #FLORATechnique
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Athletic Brewing Campaign Concept
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1 Million Ad Campaign Concept (Sora 2 Pro in FLORA)
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Nike Shoe Ad Campaign Concept (Kling 2.1 Master in FLORA)
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Billy Mulaji
Cape Town, South Africa
Sharing digital smiles
Sharing digital smiles
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Sky Internet SA
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Now Boarding
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S&P Global
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