The Studio
Good design is half the job. Delivering it, correctly, every time, is the other half.
CRD is built on seventeen years of editorial design: national magazine titles, high-volume retail campaigns and brand systems that had to hold up under real deadlines. That discipline, grids, hierarchy, restraint, runs through everything the studio touches.
The difference is what happens after the design is approved. CRD builds the templates, workflows and production systems that get work out the door consistently, so quality survives the tenth issue, the fiftieth adaptation and the deadline nobody saw coming.
Selected Work
Selected work across editorial, brand identity and packaging — visual craft and production discipline in equal measure.
Editorial Design & Production
Kruger Magazine
MLP Media
End-to-end editorial production for a specialist wildlife title: layout, image correction and print-ready output across multiple issues for MLP Media. Magazine craft, delivered on schedule, issue after issue.
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Brand Identity & Logo System
Behelm
Behelm Consulting
A complete identity system for a private security consultancy: shield monogram, colour rules, stationery and digital applications. Built as a working toolkit the client can hand to any supplier and have reproduced correctly.
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Packaging & Brand Design
Boutique Essentials
Boutique Essentials, Cape Town
Label and packaging design for a Cape Town supplier of guest amenities to boutique hotels and short-stay properties. Quiet, natural presence designed for the guest bathroom, not the retail shelf.
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One system from brief to delivery.
Every project runs through the same workflow. Briefs, assets and content go in one end; reviewed, approved, delivery-ready files come out the other, with reports and notifications along the way. Automation carries the repetitive layers so senior attention goes where it earns its keep: the thinking and the craft.
Fewer errors. Faster rounds. Nothing lost between design and delivery.
- BRIEF
- BRAND ASSETS
- CONTENT
- CLIENT FEEDBACK
CRD Design
System
- DIGITAL
- CAMPAIGN
- SOCIAL
- PACKAGING
- EDITORIAL
Services
- Editorial Design.Magazines, publications and layout systems built for the page.See Kruger Magazine
- Brand Identity.Identities with usage rules that survive contact with real work.See Behelm
- Packaging & Retail.Shopper-facing design that performs on shelf and at speed.See Boutique Essentials
- DTP & Production.Rollout, pre-press and artwork that arrives print-ready.See Checkers
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