As a practitioner of the Visual Arts and Communication, I offer a comprehensive graphic design service to both businesses and private individuals alike.
Studio Franco Design, Cape Town, provides a full range of freelance graphic design services for package and point-of-sale design, logo and corporate identity, brochures and shareholder reports, website design and hosting, image restoration, retouching and boosting, conceptual graphic design solutions, design project tracking, Copy Writing and Brand management services.
Core Graphic Design Focus
45 years’ experience in Below-The-Line accounts, and all my Design work has been devoted to:
• Conceptual Design
• Product Packaging
• Logo and Corporate Identity
• Restaurant Menus, Leisure Brochures & Corporate Reports, and Fashion Label Design
• Shop and Office Interior Concept Design
• Print Media & Point-of-Sale
• Web Site Design
• PowerPoint Presentations for Corporate B2B, Internal and Marketing purposes Concept & Design
Other Things I Do
Product Design and Styling
Exhibition Design
Photographic Direction and Styling Video Direction
In short, I have worked as a: Freelance Designer and Artist, Art Director, Creative Director, Conceptual Design Consultant, Exhibition Designer & Construction and Logistics Manager, Design Production Assistant, Design Production Manager, Design Project Manager, Location Scout & Location Unit Manager.
Recent Contracts
A 10-year contract engaged in New Business Development for Siyabona Africa – one of Africa’s largest internet based Travel Destination Marketing companies. See >> Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup
Another 4-year contract with the task of performing all these same functions for the newly-launched subsidiary company Southafrica.co.za
The Immediate Past
2008 – 2021 Design and Conceptual Consultant
2000 - 2021 Siyabona Africa Travel & Southafrica.co.za
The Long-Term Trajectory of Career Advancement
(Note: During this Career Path, I was also Moon-Lighting for the likes of Ogilvy Mather, J Walter Thompson, DDB Needham, McCann-Erikson and others I refer to as Fumble, Mumble Bumble & Snake.)
1995 – 2000 FreeLance Consultant
1991 – 1994.5 BSB Bates – WorldWide
1989 – 1991 Concept Marketing Cape
1986 – 1989 Young & Rubicam Cape
1985 – 1986 Paton Tupper Durban
1984 – 1985 Stable Graphics Durban
1982 – 1984 Paton Tupper Durban
1981 – 1982 Scotford Mills Durban
1979 – 1981 FreeLance Operator
My own graphic design consultancy in Durban: Corporate design, shop front/interior design, Project and assistant project management, up-market fashion labels and restaurant image/menu design.
I had my own textile printing factory which was bought out by Scotford Mills [Natal].
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