Freelance Creative WritersFreelance Creative Writers
Conversational, bright, and efficient writing services
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Conversational, bright, and efficient writing services
Building brands people feel something for
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Building brands people feel something for
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A catalyst for
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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Writing for Netflix: on what
NETFLIX Writing for Netflix: on what happens when advertising discipline meets global storytelling One liner Scriptwriting and creative collaboration with a global creative team for a Netflix production. THE STORY Some projects you can't say much about. This is one of them. What I can tell you is that I was invited to collaborate with Netflix's global creative team on a scriptwriting project, working alongside writers and producers from across the world. It was one of those experiences that quietly shifts something in the way you think. About pace. About precision. About the specific weight of a word in a script versus a word in an ad. About what it means to write for an audience of millions who have chosen, in a world of infinite distraction, to give you their full attention. I brought to that room everything I had learned from 20 years of writing for brands: clarity of intent, economy of language, and an instinct for the emotional truth inside a brief. The discipline of advertising, where every word costs money and every second counts, turns out to be surprisingly good training for everything else. I took home something I hadn't expected: a renewed belief in simplicity. That the hardest thing in any medium is to say exactly what you mean and nothing more. And that when you get it right it feels not like an achievement but like an inevitability. Which is of course exactly how the best work always feels. WHAT IT TAUGHT ME That good writing is good writing, whatever the medium. And that the perspective you bring to a room matters as much as the skill you bring to the page.
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The room behind the
ARNO KEMP The room behind the decision: brand strategy, creative direction and copywriting for an executive coach Brand strategy, positioning, creative direction, visual identity and copywriting for executive coach Arno Kemp. THE STORY Leadership gets lonelier the more senior you become. By the time someone reaches the top of an organisation, they’re usually very good at looking like they know what they’re doing. But behind the decisions, the meetings and the performance, there’s another conversation happening. The one about whether the role still fits. What comes next. And the things you can’t necessarily say to anyone else in the room. That was the territory I wanted to build Arno Kemp’s brand around. I kept coming back to the space before the visible decision. The thinking, doubt and uncomfortable honesty that happens privately, before a leader walks back into the room. That led to the central idea: “The room behind the decision.” From there I built a visual and verbal world that felt intelligent, quiet and assured. Less like traditional executive coaching and more like a private conversation between two people who understand the stakes. The writing followed the same principle. The role used to fit. This isn’t confusion. It’s consequence. What leaders stop saying out loud. You’re still performing. That’s not the same as fitting. The idea carried through the identity, presentation material, social content and wider brand system. WHAT IT TAUGHT ME That the most interesting thing about a service isn’t always what happens in it. Sometimes it’s the moment that makes someone realise they need it. And that when you’re speaking to accomplished people, you don’t need to tell them how to lead. You need to show them that you understand what leadership feels like.
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Ad design for B2B SaaS (Concepts + Design)
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Ad design for B2B SaaS (Concepts + Design)
Designing modern brands through UI/UX, web & visual content
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Designing modern brands through UI/UX, web & visual content