PriDegree Designs

This April, I started a series on helping Creatives transition into Creative Leaders. I noticed that many creatives stagnate at a specific level and do not know how to move up to the next. “From Creative To Leadership” provides practical steps to transition from a Creative to a Creative Leader. You can have a look at it here: From Creative to Leader

For black history month, I was commissioned to work on Omazimo books, after they created a new section called “Omazimo Alkebulan Origins”. Omazimo Alkebulan Origins deals with short stories that have deep spiritual roots in the challenges faced by the descendants of the Alkebulan (Afrikan) people. It will also have a series named the Golden series, which will focus on magical items that the…

This year was proclaimed as the year of Eden. Eden is the power the power to create the environment you need. Similarly, Eden is the dimension of God that represents the creation of environments within the earth or on the earth. It is power that is only given to the generation of Adam and his descendants who are normally referred to as the “sons of man”.  This is evident in “the heaven, even the…

In a bit to expand its service offerings, PriDegree has ventured into affiliate marketing with ngeshef.com. Ngeshef.com is a product review website that provides reviews on products in the following categories Beauty Essentials, Home Gadgets, Work Gadgets, Nardo Fitness and Nardo Wear. Home gadgets categories are divided into four categories namely kitchen, handy tools, bathroom and Living…

Last week I had a conversation with a business colleague, and she was so surprised when I did not mention to her that I owned a graphic design studio. She was so surprised to see the website: pridegree.com. I told her that I am working on so many projects that I don’t find the time to do direct marketing as I used to. Nowadays clients just contact me, mostly through referrals and owing to our…

2012 2012 – Omazimo SA – The Three Golden Calabashes 2013 2012- PriDegree Portfolio Mural 2014 – PriDegree portfolio mural 2016

Today, I had the opportunity to design a company stamp, but the catch was it had to be as minimalistic as possible. On top of that I was limited to only work with black and white. I started by determining the dimensions Figuring out stamp dimensions. The first design is based on the dimensions and layout of the standard stamp 18 by 47 mm. I really did not like the relationship between the text…

Congratulations on winning in HackUrCulture

Congratulations, Bennardo Santos on the winning team AfriKreatives and the for being a contributor to the 2020 Fak’ ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival.

Fak’uguesi is an African Digital Innovation Festival that was founded in 2014 as a collaboration between the Tshimologongo Digital Innovation Precinct and the Wits School of Arts, Digital Arts Department. Fak’uguesi is of the opinion…

I was chosen as a participant for the #HACKURCULTURE hackathon.

For the past three weeks, we have been working with the GLAM institute – District Six Museum to come up with solutions to the challenges they were facing in the digital era.

I am glad to say that our team AfriKreatives has won the Best Compelling project. The logo which I created looks amazing in the winning category. Apart…

Bennardo Santos

Bennardo Santos is a multidisciplinary graphic designer, aka the “Jack of all trades master of some”; focusing on four main graphic design sectors, which are also classified as the PriDegree Kingdoms: animation, web design, brand identity and illustrations. He began his design career at DesignCrowd while still in my first year of university (Midrand Graduate Institute, Cape…

For the past few weeks I have been working on the NardoFashion platform where you can order your favourite t-shirt: Nardo Wear.

T-shirts are available to order at: nardowear.wordpress.com.

The 5 logo design principles

5 principles of a great logo, that the logo has to be simple, memorable, timeless, versatile and appropriate.

Simple – most of the time the logos are too complicated and destroy the whole idea behind a logo. The simplicity of a logo demonstrates the skilfulness, maturity and accomplishment in design. Good design is simple, it should have been too clattered and most of all, if it is not needed…

This week we start with the second last semester, I am so glad.  This testifies that no matter who things are, no matter how things look. You just need to keep going. This means great things not only for PriDegree, as a studio and company, but also for me as a graphic design practitioner.