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Gondo Creative Studios · Harare, working anywhere

Make the value of your business easier to see.

Gondo Creative Studios is a design-led studio in Harare, Zimbabwe, working online with clients anywhere. We build the identity, the system behind it and the surfaces it lives on: brand identity, motion and screen, spatial and 3D, product and creator content, social creative, brand-true websites and personal brand support through Career Labs. We also train corporate teams, professionals and individuals for the AI era, and teach Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects on site at their own workplace.

Brands we have worked with

  • AfricaBet
  • Hammer and Tongues
  • Zorora Lodges
  • BGM Projects
  • Africa Lotto
  • Black Swan
  • Bravo Petroleum
  • FMC Finance
  • Tracy Mason
  • Glow Petroleum

Marks belong to their owners and are shown to credit work we made for them. No endorsement is implied.

The studio

A brand is an asset you own, not a look you rent.

We build the identity, the system behind it and the surfaces it lives on, so that everything you show the world is one coherent, deliberate thing.

A design-led studio in Harare, Zimbabwe, working online with clients anywhere. We start with what you need to achieve, agree the outputs and responsibilities, develop the direction before production, and check the finished work against the reference you chose before we call it finished.

  • Clarity. We understand the decision the work must support before we design anything.
  • Coherence. One identity, applied the same way on every agreed surface.
  • Evidence. Known facts, your assertions, proposals and unknowns are kept apart, in the brief and in the work.

Motion and screen

Bring your message into motion, with a piece designed for the screen where people will see it.

Kinetic type, logo animation, digital signage loops, explainers and interface walkthroughs. Unhurried and smooth, built for the display's native rate. The grain on this page is ours: film stock, not a filter.

Our work
Screen loop for a supermarket group.
Our work
Television commercial motion for a power utility.
Capability showcase
A self-initiated three-dimensional type animation, made to show what we can do.
Our work
Three-dimensional logo animation.

Social creative and flyers

Creative for the feed, at the pace the feed moves.

Campaign artwork, flyers, posters and key visuals that carry one identity across every post. A coherent set, not one-off graphics, with the message, channels and ratios agreed before we start.

A builder in a yellow hard hat with a miniature city in his handsOur work
Campaign poster for a tools brand.
A large letter H filled with the Harare skyline over blueOur own piece
Poster in the studio's own voice.
A figure leaping from a floating island with a clockOur own piece
Social media promotion in the studio's own voice.
A man in sunglasses with a phone, an ambulance and a helicopter around a short codeOur work
Campaign visual for a medical services brand.
Two dinner tables split across a purple field, one by the sea and one in a cityOur work
Campaign key visual for a bank.
A blue wall, a blue sofa and a tin of paintOur work
Poster for a paint brand.

Totem and family identity

An identity rooted in your own story.

Totem emblems and family identities, drawn from what a family tells us and carried onto apparel, signage and stationery. We never invent an ancestry or a meaning: the story is yours and the drawing is ours.

A totem emblem drawn as a crestOur work
Heritage totem emblem.
A gold buffalo emblem over a seated figure in a dark studyOur work
Emblem and wordmark for a heritage brand.
A baboon emblem on olive apparel and trainersOur work
Totem brand identity across apparel.
See the heritage work

Spatial and 3D

The stand you can walk into, before anything is built.

Exhibition stands, stage and screen artwork and event identity, visualised in three dimensions so you can judge the space, the light and the flow of people before a supplier cuts a panel. We supply the design files and the supplier specifications. Printing, manufacturing and installation stay with your suppliers unless we scope them together.

Made for this page
A tracking shot built from our own exhibition-stand render.
An exhibition stand concept for a digital bankOur work
Exhibition stand concept visualised in three dimensions.
An orange and white exhibition stand with a row of kiosksOur work
Exhibition stand concept visualised in three dimensions.

Product realism

Realism first. Food, drink and electronics that read as real.

Product motion and stills for solopreneurs, start-ups and brands that need a steady feed of content that looks shot, not made. Real light, real texture and every detail where it should be. Tell us the product and the platform and we agree the formats.

Our work
Motion advert for a lager, made for realism.
Our work
Motion advert for a bakery.
Our work
Teaser reel for a soft-drinks bottler.
Capability showcase
A self-initiated fast food scene, two customers and one very big burger, made to show what we can do.
Our work
Motion advert for a footwear retailer.
Our work
Product reel for a drinks retailer's screens, made for realism.
Capability showcase
A self-initiated logo animation for a sportswear brand, made to show what we can do.
Made for this page
An electronics reveal, generated for realism.

Creator content (UGC)

Put your product in a real hand, in the feed where people decide.

Short vertical clips in the creator style people trust on social: a face, a product and a reason to care, made for the phone. We plan the hook, the setting and the words around your offer, and deliver clips ready to post or to run as adverts. Every clip here was made for this page.

Made for this page
Creator content, generated for realism: a market seller shows her fruit to camera.
Made for this page
Creator content, generated for realism: a cream jar shown to camera in a bathroom, no studio and no script.
Made for this page
Creator content, generated for realism: earbuds shown to camera on a Harare street at golden hour.
Made for this page
Creator content, generated for realism: a phone turned in the hand at a cafe table.

Brand identity

Give your business a clear identity and practical guidance for using it consistently.

Brand strategy and DNA, a strategic identity system, a comprehensive manual, treatment guides and rollout artwork. For corporates, professionals, individuals and families with a story worth carrying.

A red and black news brand across business cards, a flash drive, a phone, a mug and a laptop; on hover the mark animatesCapability showcase
A self-initiated news brand identity in motion, made to show what we can do.
A burger bar identity across a cup, wrapper, phone and box in orange and teal; on hover the brand's film playsCapability showcase
A self-initiated brand visual identity for a burger bar, made to show what we can do.
A fitness brand identity across a runner, a phone, a poster and a watch in green and black; on hover the mark animatesCapability showcase
A self-initiated fitness brand mark, made to show what we can do.
A red geometric emblem above a silver wordmark on dark greenOur work
Logo design for a consultancy.
A logo presentation on a square boardOur work
Logo design.
A premium door brand identity boardCapability showcase
A self-initiated premium brand identity, made to show what we can do.
A black monogram on a white sheet beside drawing instrumentsOur work
Monogram for a members club.
A heart emblem and wordmark from a totem identityCapability showcase
A self-initiated totem identity, made to show what we can do.
A totem emblem and its wordmarkOur work
Totem brand identity.

Website walk-throughs

Show people your website working, in about a minute.

A guided film of your own site, recorded live from the pages your visitors see, set in your colours and your name, with a voice that explains each screen as it passes. You receive a phone cut and a widescreen cut, ready for a launch post, a pitch or your own pages. Press play to hear two of ours.

Capability showcase
A walk-through of a public website, python.org, made to show the service: live pages, its own colours, a voice.
Our own piece
Our own site, walked through on a phone: recorded live, set in our own type and grain.

Ask for a walk-through of your site

In their words

What the people we work with say when the work lands.

Thanks a lot. I have no complaints. Simple and clean. I appreciate your help and your attention to detail to make other people's dreams a reality. I will definitely be hitting you up soon for more work.

Ziyanda · Group founder, company profile

This is brilliant work. Simple but unique and sophisticated. I'm sold.

Panashe · Construction and equipment rental, logo

Honestly I am impressed, I like this. Just sent to the other partner for comments but as for me, I am sold.

Hazel · Professional partnership, logo

We really love Option 1, the primary logo. It's perfect. We don't have any feedback. Well done!

Terry · Design studio, logo

This is phenomenal. You nailed it. Love the logo rationale. You worked hard guys, please tell them well done. This is international.

Eileen · Organisation, logo and rationale

Amazing amazing Boss! That is great work! I really love it. Thank you very much!

Richard · Agriculture business, stationery branding

I'm super impressed. This is pure art.

Tendai · Apparel brand, logo

That blue is perfect. I love this, it communicates better. Simple and versatile.

Tapiwa · Hospitality, branding

Not only for the great work in your perfected craft but for the patience and professionalism. Our journey doesn't end here. Soon I will need social media post designs as well as equipment branding, so I will definitely holla.

Panashe · Construction and equipment rental, logo and stationery

Wow! That's some very impressive work. I've seen it, it's beautiful.

George · Health charity, logo

You are so damn creative.

Tarie · HR consultancy, video

You are seemingly miles ahead of most in the motion graphics and design game.

Tadana · A designer who wrote in

Words as sent to us on WhatsApp. Names changed.

Brand-true web

Help people understand your offer through a website that feels like your brand.

Replicated from the exact reference you chose, furnished with your identity, and checked against it in numbers rather than asserted to be close. This page is built the same way, and every picture and clip on it can be changed in a minute.

Define what your site must do
A capture of this website at desktop widthOur own piece
This website, as it renders at desktop width.

Training · teams, professionals and individuals

Training your team can put to work.

We come to your workplace in Harare and teach from your team's real tasks: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects for graphic, motion, social and marketing design, and practical AI for the AI era, for business and for professional development. Priced by proposal, scoped in writing before the first session.

Ask for a training proposal
A professional sketching on paper beside a laptop while a facilitator leans in to lookMade for this page
Working through a layout on paper during a session, generated for this page.
A professional reading a document at a deskMade for this page
A professional reading a document, generated for realism.

Personal brand · GCS Career Labs

Present your experience clearly for the opportunity you are pursuing.

How you read on paper and online, built and refined so your next opportunity sees you at your strongest. It starts with a free review of your current CV, on WhatsApp.

Explore personal-brand support

How we work

A studio run on a system we built ourselves.

It remembers your brief and your corrections, keeps your brand rules current, checks the work against the agreed reference, and tells you plainly which of produced, accepted and received is true. The second job with us starts where the first one ended. You feel the results. The machinery stays behind the curtain.

  • Context before action. You are not asked twice for what we already hold.
  • Clear scope. Versioned deliverables, exclusions and approval bound to the actual version.
  • Corrections of our own defects are free. Included changes stay included. A new request is scoped separately.

Built with Higgsfield; Anthropic Claude. Works with Google Gemini; Facebook and Instagram; Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects. Runs on Cloudflare. How we use AI

Our own piece
Kinetic type piece in the studio's own voice.

Start here

Tell us what you need to achieve.

Share your goal, who the work needs to reach, the materials you already have and any real constraints. We reply from the studio with a clear next step.

Sent to the studio from this page; if that fails, your own mail app opens, addressed to [email protected]. We answer from the same address.