Warning! If you work in a small grey cubicle, it’s time to look away now. We did some hunting online and discovered amazing workspaces created by a variety of local talented companies. Start drooling and feast your eyes on what we found.
Orbis Africa (Salt River, Cape Town)
Orbis Africa works with local partners to develop their capacity for accessible, high-quality, sustainable eye-health services for all, regardless of their ability to pay. They do this by developing infrastructure, providing training to local doctors, nurses and community members, and conducting outreach services. Africa is the continent with the highest prevalence of blindness with an estimated 4.8 million blind and 16.6 million people living with severe to moderate visual impairment.
75% suffer from conditions that treatable, curable or preventable. In 2016 Orbis globally trained 40 000 eye-care professionals to treat vision impairment. Their interventions improved more than 3.5 million lives. Learn more about Orbis Africa here.
Designed by Hendre Bloem Design. Photo by Ansjah Bloem.
Nando’s – Central Kitchen (Lorentzville, Johannesburg)
For centuries the people of Southeast Africa have used PERi-PERi to bring fire to their food. It is in Mozambique’s rich soil and blistering sunshine that the African Bird’s Eye Chilli grows into its fiery best. When Portuguese explorers arrived there, they were enchanted by its flavour. They added a squeeze of lemon and a kick of garlic and turned PERi-PERi into a very well-travelled spice. Which is how, many years later it ended up in Rosettenville, Johannesburg. One afternoon in 1987, two friends went for lunch at a humble Portuguese eatery.
As their meal drew to a close, they knew they’d tasted something that had to be shared. PERi-PERi was about to make one more journey – from Rosettenville to the world. Learn more about Nando’s here.
Design Team: Creative Director – Tracy Lee Lynch and JP Beukes of Onepointzero. Photo by JP Beukes.
Big Eye Branding (Mayville, Durban)
Big Eye was founded in 2006 to game-change the way brands engage their customers across Africa. Their work is big, bold and innovative. It is also tailor-made for specific climates, cultures and languages. Their solutions stand out from the friendly chaos that makes Africa’s cities so intense and vibrant. Africa is as varied as the shelves of a Chinese supermarket and is developing faster than any continent.
Having local knowledge is essential for their solutions to be effective. Such knowledge comes from travel, travel and more travel – which is why their passports are so careworn. Learn more about Big Eye Branding here.
Design Team: Jan Botha and Neil Roake from BOTHA + ROAKE. Photo courtesy of BOTHA + ROAKE.
Missing Link (Fourways, Sandton)
They are always telling clients to turn small ideas into big results. That’s because they know how it’s done. Back in 1997, Richard Mulholland was a humble (ha!) marketing manager at Gearhouse, one of South Africa’s premier staging companies.
That’s when he figured that you could use the same top-shelf AV equipment and brilliant tech guys for corporate presentations – and get rock star results. Learn more about Missing Link here.
Photo courtesy of Missing Link.
Instant Grass International (Green Point, Cape Town)
Using their proprietary Greenhouse Platform they can manage a community of consumers dedicated to your brand that you can dip into at any stage during your marketing and strategic planning. From planning long-term marketing campaigns through to quick turnaround sense-checking, having a branded community is the ultimate tool to ensure you stay relevant and authentic. Learn more about Instant Grass International here.
Designed by Jaco Janse van Rensburg. Photos by Russel Smith.
Hirt & Carter Head Office (Springfield, Durban)
Leveraging on over 50 years’ worth of retail workflow and commercial print experience, Hirt & Carter has established itself as a leading integrator of multi-channel marketing and communication solutions. Their blend of strategic partnerships, creativity, cutting-edge print technology and industry innovation has made Hirt & Carter a prominent force for enabling advertisers, brands and marketers to effectively converse with both South African and global markets. Learn more about Hirt & Carter here.
Design Team: Jan Botha and Neil Roake from BOTHA + ROAKE. Photo courtesy of BOTHA + ROAKE.
John Brown (Observatory, Cape Town)
John Brown Media South Africa is part of a leading global content marketing agency. They create engaging branded content across print and digital, and with offices in Cape Town, Johannesburg, London, Hong Kong, Dubai and Boston, their network provides access to global best practice coupled with the very best local talent and expertise. Learn more about John Brown Media here.
Photo courtesy of Inhouse Brand Architects.
99c (Foreshore, Cape Town)
They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Theirs was in 2008, when Andrew Brand and Lewin de Villiers decided to open their own agency. That’s all it took: two strategic and creative minds, a shared vision and, of course, a pitch. Cue an unfaltering work ethic, courage, determination and creativity, and their very first pitch became their first client win. Learn more about 99c here.
Designed by Inhouse Brand Architects. Photos Micky Hoyle.
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