Company Profile 2017
WHO ARE WE?
ContĂŠ Creatives Agency, is a proudly South African company founded by two young directors namely Charmaine Ngobeni and Amanda Sibiya. The two embarked on a journey of penetrating the creative industry. The company is divided into two divisions; A creative agency that prides itself in being able to produce top notch creative, artistic designs design and development, print design and graphic design. A publication that is a creative portfolio aimed at driving collaboration among artists in order to turn the arts into a force to be reckoned with. ContĂŠ started a vision that would revolutionize the way people think of the creative industry internationally.
CONTÉ FOUNDERS
THE LADIES OF CONTÉ CREATIVES Amanda Sibiya, an enthusiastic and passionate creative designer completed a diploma in Multimedia: Integrated Fine Art, Animation and Graphic Design from The Centre for Fine Art and Design in Durban. Charmaine Ngobeni, a highly talented, driven and Illustration and Digital Imagery from Parsons The New School of Design in New York. Both Amanda and Charmaine have a passion for the creative industry and do not want to be limited to only being either fashion, graphic or interior designer which is why the both call themselves “creative designers”. What brought them together was their desire to see more Creatives collaborate with each other to change how people currently think of the creative industry, this being the reason why they started their own company.
CONTÉ AGENCY
WHAT IS THE AGENCY?
Our Agency is renowned for its brand styling and consulting. Branding is more than just a logo and a letterhead. We create an image and identity for each client that is custom assembled for their strategic ambitions by capturing the essence of your company.Our approach is to distill each client's reason for existence to its core, then make it distinct by creating an emotional connection through memorable visual design. The brand styling package would include: • Logo design • Business card • Letterhead • Email signature • Promotional Material • Website design • Packaging Design • Label Design • Stationary • Tshirt/bag design • Social Media design
(promotional banners, Profile pictures, cover photos)
• and loads more
We design all of these options according to a style guide that we create for our clients, which would be consistent and cohesive.
CONTÉ MAGAZINE
CONTE MAGAZINE IS? One of the key business product, which was a magazine namely Conté Magazine, which was launched in May 2015. Part of the business is to address the social issues amongst all the Creative Industries in Africa, by addressing how the rest of The Conte Magazine, is a Creative portfolio aimed at driving collaboration among artists in order to turn the arts into a force to be reckoned with. Conté started a vision that would revolutionize the way people think of the creative industry internationally. It is more than just a creative portfolio, it allows the reader to be involved in the creative process, to make the transition from consumer and viewer to creator and enthusiast. We are all about changing the way we work together and we are quite excited about this new adventure and we’d like to invite you along. The Conté creative portfolio is aimed at creative graphic designers; animators; architects; interior designers; poets; photographers and Fashion designers.These creatives are given the opportunity to be featured in both digital and print spheres (Conté Digital and Conté Magazine)
Conté Digital is released monthly online, enabling artists to expand their reach to the international markets; those same artists are then allowed to fully exhibit their work in a themed print edition of the Conté, Conté Magazine. Conté Magazine is a bi-annual creative book that is accompanied by quarterly exhibition event, where all the featured artists get the chance to have their work exhibited. Twice a year Creatives have a platform to have their work displayed and fully exhibited. This is the ultimate Conté vision. Moving forward, Conté’s mission is to expand its leadership role in the creative market, using groundbreaking creative solutions and also expanding creative collaboration by using its publications.
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