B Corp Certified Company | For organisations that care about people and planet | Cape Town & London
B Corp Certified Company | For organisations that care about people and planet | Cape Town & London
Your organisation needs design that works as hard as your mission. TEA’s six in-house graphic designers bring craft, strategy, and purpose to every project.
TEA is a B Corp certified graphic design agency with six full-time in-house designers. We bring together creativity, strategic thinking, and a genuine commitment to social and environmental impact on every project we take on.
From brand identity and logo design to annual reports, sustainability reports, social media graphics, infographics, and UX design, we produce cohesive, world-class design across every touchpoint for organisations that want their visual communication to mean something.
Branding is the perpetual process of identifying, creating, and managing the cumulative assets and actions that shape a brand’s perception in stakeholders’ minds. The goal is to earn space in your target audience’s hearts and minds and become their preferred option for doing business.
A strong brand is not purely visual. It is the sum of your values, purpose, messaging, and every touchpoint your audience encounters. Done well, branding drives new business, builds loyalty, and commands respect. Done poorly, or not at all, it works against you.
Our brand development solutions include brand development (defining your core identity), logo design, brand guidelines (Brand Books), stationery design, and communication and marketing assets.
We specialise in report and publication design, having designed and produced over 400 world-class reports and publications since 2017, some of them award-winning. Our experience spans sustainability and impact reports, ESG and annual reports, company profiles, case studies, and magazines.
Our approach focuses on transforming dense information into visually compelling publications. Our role as designers is to elevate Word documents into world-class, page-turning reports, using design, typography, colour, and imagery to guide the reader effortlessly through long-form content.
Our report design work has earned multiple industry awards, including at the SA Publication Forum Corporate Publication Competition and CreativePool Annual.
Social media feeds are overloaded with content, and template or AI-generated graphics are increasingly obvious. To cut through the clutter and capture real attention, you need compelling, authentic, and unique design.
Our goal is to stop the scroll. We produce world-class, visually stimulating content that conveys your message with impact and builds strong brand recall.
Our social media design solutions include stories, reels, static imagery, carousels, animation, and video, in the correct formats for every platform. We also offer a complete social media management service, from content creation and publishing to community management and reporting.
Infographics are an essential part of modern communication. At TEA, we have produced thousands of infographics, icons, and diagrams, using custom iconography, colour palettes, and illustrative styles to capture attention and deliver your message clearly, without overwhelming the viewer.
Good infographic design turns complex data into compelling visual assets. The layout, illustration style, and graphical clarity of your information directly influence how your message is received and how well it is retained.
We use infographics to bring content to life, creating memorable and engaging experiences that stay with your audience long after they have moved on from the page.
Marketing assets are the tangible, visual extensions of your brand. They are the boots on the ground of your communications, making sure every touchpoint is consistent, professional, and persuasive. From the scale of an exhibition stand to the precision of a sales deck, consistent design reinforces your value proposition.
Our marketing design solutions include large-format design for exhibitions and events, banners, flyers, posters, emailers, and more.
One of our specialisms is presentation and slide deck design. We have designed dozens of world-class presentations for clients including The World Bank, The Presidency of South Africa, GreenCape, and the University of Cape Town, in both Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides. We are also experienced in packaging design and in-store marketing materials, having designed packaging across DIY, food, and healthcare product categories.
UI/UX design brings together User Interface design (UI), which covers the look and feel, and User Experience design (UX), which covers the overall user journey. Together they create digital experiences that are visually appealing and easy to use. UI focuses on colour, typography, and layout. UX focuses on functionality, structure, and flow.
At TEA, we have designed hundreds of websites and applications. The process begins with wireframes, arguably the most important phase of any web project and the stage that sets the whole build up for success. This is followed by the full graphic design of the website’s look and feel.
We offer the complete turnkey service: website design, development, hosting, maintenance, and support.
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With eight years of experience working with clients across 17 countries, TEA has the expertise to deliver world-class graphic design for organisations that care about people and planet. Our six in-house designers bring craft, strategy, and purpose to every project we take on.
Whether you are a growing NGO, an impact-driven startup, or an established corporate, we can help you build a compelling visual presence that communicates your values, earns trust, and makes a lasting impression on your audience.
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TEA is a full-service graphic design agency providing a wide range of visual solutions for impact-driven and sustainability-focused organisations. Our core services include brand identity and logo design, corporate rebranding, marketing collateral, report and publication design, social media design, website design, infographic design and illustration, presentation and slide deck design, and packaging design.
TEA is B Corp certified, meaning our business meets high standards of social and environmental governance. We advocate for recycled or FSC-approved papers and non-toxic vegetable inks for all print outputs. Our operations are powered by renewable energy, and TEA is Africa’s first and only organisation recognised by The Green Web Foundation for providing 100% renewable energy-powered website hosting. We actively design sustainable websites that minimise energy consumption, and we work with clients and suppliers who share a genuine commitment to ethical and environmental standards.
Strategic branding helps impact-driven organisations articulate their purpose clearly and build real trust with their stakeholders. A strong visual identity signals intelligence and intention, distinguishing your organisation in an overly saturated marketplace. It ensures your visual narrative aligns with your mission, helping you attract clients and partners who share your values and respect transparency.
Our brand development service covers the full spectrum, from initial discovery through to final brand guidelines. This includes brand strategy and positioning, logo design, colour palette and typography development, brand guidelines (Brand Books), stationery design, and communication asset templates. We work closely with each client to make sure the final identity is distinctive, memorable, and built to last.
Yes. While we specialise in supporting NGOs, impact-driven organisations, and sustainability-focused brands, we work across a wide range of sectors including finance, health, education, FMCG, built environment, and government. We currently partner with more environmental and sustainability-sector organisations than most agencies, but we believe in values-aligned collaboration across all industries.
Our logo design process takes a strategic, research-based approach. We do not simply produce a visual symbol. We explore your organisation’s unique value proposition, target audience, and competitive landscape. The process starts with a moodboard of multiple strategic logo concepts, and our team works with you to develop a logo that is memorable, functional, and timeless, one that articulates the essence of your brand and supports long-term growth.
Choosing a B Corp certified agency means you are partnering with a business that has formally committed to accountability, transparency, and purpose. B Corp certification means we have amended our governance to balance profit and impact. For clients, this means high-quality creative work alongside the knowledge that your investment supports a company dedicated to creating real positive outcomes for people and planet.
Our report design service covers all stages from concept to final delivery: design concept with unlimited revisions, full layout and design of covers and all interior pages, photography management (sourcing and licensing at no extra charge), a cloud-based client review process, final exports in all required print and digital formats, and all-inclusive project management and creative direction.
Both documents are essential for organisational transparency, but they serve different purposes. An annual report focuses on financial performance and corporate governance, primarily for shareholders and investors. An impact report demonstrates the social and environmental value an organisation creates, addressing a broader audience including employees, customers, funders, and the wider community.
Professional design transforms reports from static documents into powerful communication tools. Good publication design converts dense financial and ESG data into accessible, engaging stories. Key functions include visualising complexity (custom infographics and charts), improving readability (thoughtful typography and hierarchy), strengthening brand authority (high-quality consistent design), and humanising the narrative (imagery that reflects the real people and environments you support).
Infographics use visual processing to make complex data far easier to understand. People retain 65% of information when it is paired with a relevant image, compared to only 10% with text alone. Visual content is also 40 times more likely to be shared on social media, extending your reach well beyond your immediate audience. For impact-driven organisations, infographics are particularly powerful for demonstrating concepts that are hard to convey through words alone.
Effective infographics do not just decorate data, they structure it. TEA’s approach focuses on three things: narrative flow (identifying the key statistics and building visual storytelling around them), accessibility (designing with contrast ratios and legibility that work for all audiences), and credibility (transparent sourcing and honest data representation that builds long-term trust with your audience).
Social media is a highly visual environment where users scroll fast. High-quality, authentic design is what stops them. Template mediocrity and AI-generated content are increasingly easy to spot, and professional design is now the baseline for standing out. Consistent, quality visuals also build credibility. Poor or inconsistent design erodes trust before a user even reads your caption. We design every asset to the specific requirements of each platform.
Design is the primary factor that stops the scroll. Our approach focuses on emotional connection through visuals that reflect real people and genuine stories, platform optimisation so every asset is sized and formatted correctly, and consistency across all your channels so your social presence aligns with your website and offline materials. Good graphic design gives people a reason to stop, look, and act.
No. AI design tools can generate images and basic layouts quickly, but they cannot replace the strategic thinking, brand understanding, and client judgment that define professional graphic design. AI tools produce generic outputs; professional designers produce work built specifically for your organisation’s goals, values, and audience. TEA’s designers have collectively produced over 400 reports, brand identities for more than 100 organisations, and hundreds of websites across 17 countries.
AI-generated design is fast and low-cost, but it produces generic, pattern-based output that lacks strategic depth and brand specificity. Professional graphic design starts with a real brief, a real audience, and a defined objective, and produces work that is intentional, original, and built to get a result. At TEA, every design decision is made with your mission in mind, by designers with eight years of specialist experience working with clients including The World Bank, The Presidency of South Africa, and the University of Cape Town.
AI tools generate visuals. Design solves communication problems. There is a fundamental difference. A skilled designer starts by asking what you need your audience to understand, feel, or do, and builds every decision around that. Professional design also requires consistency, accountability, and genuine iteration. A design agency manages your project from brief to final file, incorporates feedback, maintains your brand standards, and delivers work in the correct technical formats for every use case.
UX design ensures users can find what they are looking for without friction, and guides them toward the action that matters most to your organisation, whether that is downloading a resource, making a purchase, or filling out a contact form. By applying best-practice UX principles, we create a natural flow where good design is invisible to the user. They simply find what they need. At TEA we have designed hundreds of websites, and the process always begins with wireframes, the most important phase of any web project.
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