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We Craft engaging brands

Hello Engage Brandcraft! Hello engaging business branding. Allow us to introduce you to a passionate new breed of branding agency – young but professional, playful but precise. At Engage Brandcraft, we take your work (and ours) seriously. Our promise: we will partner with you in delivering a brand personality that is compelling and effective, in accordance with your needs. We specialise in brand origination (new brand development) and brand renovation projects (refining and refreshing existing brands). Our competencies? Creative branding strategy (including concept development), positioning strategy, world-class corporate design, copywriting and custom website design services. In addition to creating brands, we also offer ongoing brand development input including communications, training and support.

 

Put simply: we are a specialised branding strategy, design and implementation firm. We create effective and engaging brand identities and help to build them. We love work that works and we believe that our results speak for themselves.  Our pride is backed by 5 years of solid delivery and over 100 successfully launched brand origination, corporate logo design and related brand communications projects.

What we've done
Beauty Factory

“From Me to Me, With Love!”: Beauty Factory’s unique bath and body brand is dedicated to you, inviting you to show yourself a little love every day.”

Oltio

Our first brief from Africa’s largest cellular network provider, MTN. They required a fitting identity for a new, neutral innovation platform and product company.

Legacy Parks

A quiet brand was required to convey this truly revolutionary concept. The payoff line says it all: ‘Life goes on at Legacy Parks’. We wanted to craft an identity that was once positive and respectful.

Babaderm

Brand origination for a skin-friendly range of natural baby care products. The secret ingredient and concept platform: probiotics… good bugs to the rescue.

What you need
GIVING BRANDS PERSONALITY

Brands are people too. They have a mission; other people will remember or forget them; engage with or ignore them. They can be passionate or austere, open or private.

They can interact with other individuals and with each other in numerous ways. We see them as characters, bringing the inane to life and creating memorable and loveable brands that ignite the passions of brand ambassadors and markets alike.

TELLING BRAND STORIES

What’s the point of a great brand if it never gets conveyed? Great brands are made of memories - of stories and legends. Exactly how we help brands create and tell these stories depends on who we want to listen.

We believe that a brand should tell its stories again and again from its logo(s) to the way the phones are answered – reinforcing exactly what makes it popular and educating the public all the while.

BUILDING BRAND COMMUNITIES

Talking AT people is no longer effective. Individuals listen to their networks. They trust their friends, families and communities. Ergo: getting networks talking about and living your brand is priceless.

Talk to individuals where they want, when they want and let them talk back – or even better, share with each other. Give them something to talk about - to share with others.

What they've said
Engage Brandcraft has assisted us with the re-positioning of our architects’ practice and the redesign of our company website in 2008. The brief asked for a new, fresh look to our branding, which reflects the true nature of our practice, with specific emphasis on the design-oriented aspects of our business. The project proved to be especially challenging in light of the fact that Engage had to work with our internet service provider, within the framework of an existing website structure. The end result speaks for itself. We are incredibly happy with our newly developed branding and website. As a result of the improved website, our company has attracted a number of new clients. We can really recommend their services and are of the opinion that the complementary skills of the two partners equip them with a competitive advantage over other branding firms.
~ Udo Kieslich, Director - The College of Digital Photography
I would like to thank all of you for your effort, advice and excellent service over last 2 years. Before we met you, our company was in a re-branding stage where we had no identity let alone a name. Our relationship began with a logo design and has flourished from there, and we now rely on Engage Brandcraft for all our marketing and design needs. I think our website, brochures, exhibition displays and various magazine adverts are testament to the fact that we have a cohesive, visually striking and fun brand image. We are proud of our brand and have received numerous compliments from our students. Thanks for everything,
~ Nina Monda, Monda PR
You are young, creative and enthusiastic about your industry and clients, are very quick on turnaround time and deliver really good quality work
~ Tiaan Meyer, Meyer + Vorster Architects
Engage were given the task of making a very cool advert for an unglamourous business. This they achieved, bringing a fresh approach to our advertising and the tools we can use for marketing. To deal with them has been very uncomplicated, and the professionalism of their work is outstanding. As a result of their efforts we have seen our web traffic leap, and look forward to their unique concepts in the future.
~ Renelle Bailey, Africa Travel Centre
Working with Engage is a pleasure! I have been working with them on various accounts from the day they started. The boys are all professional, fast, responsible and the most creative in their industry. Hen you work with Engage it is working with a breath of fresh air! Good luck Engage, you will do well. Thank you for all your hard work in the past.
~ Paul Venter, CEO Homebrew Films
Engage! Well, what can we say? About two years ago we approached them to revamp our website, and have never looked back! Since then we have passed on all of our design, advertising and branding projects to them and they have always surpassed our expectations. We have found them to be professional, courteous, inspirational and they always go the extra mile! Nothing is too much of a problem and no project too big or small! Thank you Engage.
~ Andy Conder, Clearer Conscience