Shaheed Gqokoma
Senior Multidisciplinary Designer · Johannesburg

Taste youcan see.Passionyou can feel.

I design from Johannesburg for the world — brand systems, digital products, and AI-driven campaign visuals. Whether it's a corporate identity or a mobile app, the work either lands or it doesn't.

Tools and systems I work with
Photoshop
Illustrator
IdInDesign
PrPremiere Pro
Figma
VS Code
Framer
Cursor
Codex
Vercel
Claude
Supabase
Positioning

Built to gofurther thanthe brief.

Decade-deep in brand communication, campaign production, UI systems, and AI imaging — mostly from inside corporate SA, partly from building my own products. I know what's easy to make and what's hard to get right. That difference is what I'm hired for.

Capabilities

Disciplines withsystem logic.

01

Brand Systems

I build identities that scale. The logo is just the start — the system behind it is what survives rollout.

02

Product Direction

App screens to full product UI. I design things that work, not just things that look good in mockups.

03

AI Production

Commercial-grade imagery at startup speed. I've built AI pipelines that produce what used to need a full production team.

04

Motion Language

Video editing, social content, motion graphics. The edit is where a campaign either comes together or falls apart.

Selected Brand Systems

Organised by brand story.

Some of these brands I built from scratch. Others I stepped into and pushed further. All of it is real work made under real constraints.

Mecer

Built for the way you work.

Brand and campaign design for Mustek's flagship consumer technology label.

Mecer brand campaign
Mecer bus billboard night
Mecer airport billboard
Mecer exhibition stand
The Story

Mecer is Mustek's own consumer technology brand · laptops, peripherals, power solutions. I developed and maintained the product brand system: photography direction, campaign advertising, retail presence, and digital assets. The challenge was elevating a local brand to feel competitive next to global names at point of sale.

Sprite

Obey your thirst.

Concept campaign materials for Sprite's South African market presence.

Sprite 90s babe
Sprite 90s babe 2
Sprite basketball
Sprite can be cold
The Story

Sprite's brand language is built on refreshment as a cultural act · a state of mind shaped by refreshment, youth culture, and street-level energy. The campaign work explored how that message translates across outdoor, digital, and in-store environments in a South African cultural context. The visual direction stayed loyal to Sprite's bold green-and-white system while bringing a more energetic, street-level quality to the compositions.

Adidas Adizero

Built for what comes next.

High-performance campaign direction for the Adizero performance range.

Adidas Adizero brand
Adidas Adizero shoe
Adidas stadium campaign
Adidas Adizero wide
The Story

The Adizero campaign required communicating precision engineering to a performance audience. The creative direction drew from motorsport and aerospace visual languages · technical overlays, kinetic typography, and speed-referenced composition. Every frame was built to make the product feel like a machine engineered for human performance.

Apple

Ultrafast. Ultraportable.

Product marketing assets for Apple campaigns across iPad mini and iPhone retail communication.

Apple iPad mini ultrafast ultraportable campaign asset
Apple iPhone innovation campaign asset
Apple iPad mini big-screen attitude campaign asset
Apple iPad mini product marketing portrait asset
The Story

Apple campaign assets built around clean product storytelling, precise typography, and premium retail clarity. The work balances device-led hero imagery with compact copy systems designed for quick social and in-store recognition.

Mustek

Technology. Distributed.

In-house creative lead across Mustek's entire brand communication ecosystem.

Mustek brand
Mustek AI Conference
Mustek Midrand Campus
Mustek outdoor lightbox
The Story

Mustek is southern Africa's largest technology distributor, representing over 60 global brands across the continent. As the in-house Senior Designer, I own the full visual communication system · from product launches and retail POS to webinar collateral, campaign materials, and partner co-branding. Every global brand touchpoint that moves through Mustek carries design work I produced.

CloudShop

Cloud. Simple. Yours.

Full brand identity designed from inception for a Mustek digital solutions platform.

CloudShop brand identity
CloudShop visual language
CloudShop corporate identity
CloudShop brand system
The Story

CloudShop by Mustek is a digital solutions platform built to give businesses easier access to cloud services, software subscriptions, and technology resources. I designed the brand from the ground up — logo, visual language, and full corporate identity guidelines — establishing a clean, modern system built to scale with the product. The brief was to make enterprise cloud feel approachable without losing credibility.

Sowetonic

Township roots. Premium pour.

Brand identity system for a new generation township premium mixer brand.

Sowetonic luxury pour
Sowetonic lifestyle
Sowetonic lifestyle
Sowetonic blueberry
The Story

Sowetonic was imagined as more than a tonic water brand. It represents a new generation of township entrepreneurship · young, ambitious, design-aware, and globally inspired while remaining deeply connected to its Soweto roots. The creative direction positioned the product as a sophisticated lifestyle beverage designed for modern urban culture, rooftop social spaces, and premium hospitality environments. The visual world balances minimalism with cultural confidence · allowing the product itself to carry elegance through restraint, realism, and refined composition.

Chowza

Find your next meal.

End-to-end brand identity and product design for a South African food discovery app.

Chowza brand identity
Chowza visual
Chowza image
Chowza shot 2
The Story

Chowza is my own product · a food discovery and deals platform built for how South Africa eats. From Streetwise to flame-grilled, from R29.90 to feeding the whole crew, Chowza aggregates every deal in one place. I designed the full brand identity, UI system, marketing materials, and app screens · building a product that needed to feel premium enough to compete with established players while remaining warm and accessible to a broad South African audience.

Kota King

Kings of the corner.

Brand identity and campaign for a proudly South African township fast food concept.

Kota King campaign
Kota King food
Kota King brand identity
Kota King store
The Story

Kota King is a South African QSR brand built around the kota · the iconic township street food. The brand needed to honour its cultural roots while feeling modern, scalable, and commercially viable. The identity system drew from township visual culture: bold colour, confident typography, and an energy that felt authentic rather than commodified.

Fanta

Orange You Thirsty?

Large-scale outdoor activation campaign built around bold typography and cultural energy.

Fanta product visual
Fanta outdoor activation
Fanta Ballito billboard
Fanta CBD billboard night
The Story

This concept project explored what a fully realised Fanta outdoor campaign could look like across South Africa · from Ballito billboards to skyscraper facades, festival stages, and digital city infrastructure. The campaign was built around the playful slogan "ORANGE YOU thirsty?" · transforming a simple line into a bold visual identity system capable of living anywhere the brand needed to show up. The objective was to create a campaign that feels youthful, energetic, culturally alive, and impossible to ignore.

Coca-Cola

Serve Cold.

Concept campaign centred on cold temperature as an emotional brand experience.

Coca-Cola asset - 0
Coca-Cola asset - 01
Coca-Cola asset - 02
Coca-Cola asset - ck2
The Story

This concept project explored Coca-Cola's relationship with cold · as a sensory brand promise with temperature, ritual, and recognition built into every frame. The direction leaned into high-contrast product photography, dramatic lighting, and minimal copy to let the product carry the story. The result was a premium visual system that felt worthy of the world's most recognised beverage brand.

Motion & Direction

Everythingthat moves.

Based in Johannesburg · Open to remote

Brand systems.Product thinking.AI production.Motion direction.

Let's talk
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