Graphic Design Cape Town
Graphic design for the MOTHER City
Cape Town is a design-led, lifestyle-driven market, and the work has to look it. A restaurant menu on the Sea Point promenade, a wine label headed for a Constantia cellar door, a tourism brochure, a Century City tech deck, a V&A Waterfront retail campaign: every piece has to feel considered. Juicy Designs is a Pretoria studio that services Cape Town, delivering print and digital design remotely with couriered print and on-location shoots by arrangement. From R1,500 per asset, retainers from R5,500/mo.
Juicy Designs is a Pretoria design studio that has served Cape Town brands since 2015, producing print and digital graphic design for the city’s tourism, hospitality, wine and food, tech, property and retail sectors. In practice, graphic design for a Cape Town brand tends to mean the things this market lives on: menus and table collateral for restaurants and cafes, wine label and tasting-sheet artwork, guesthouse and boutique-hotel material, tour and experience brochures, investor and product decks for Century City and CBD tech companies, listing and development brochures for property, seasonal social sets built around the summer visitor peak, and exhibition graphics for events at the CTICC.
We work with brands across the City Bowl, V&A Waterfront, Woodstock, Sea Point, Century City and the Southern Suburbs, delivering remotely with couriered print and on-location shoots arranged when a job needs a real photograph of a venue, product or team. Single assets from R1,500. Monthly design retainers from R5,500/mo covering roughly 8 to 12 assets. Full creative retainers from R12,000/mo covering 20+ assets across campaign creative, print and presentations. No long-term contracts.
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Built around Cape Town sectors
Design for how the city trades
Cape Town runs on tourism, food and wine, tech, property and retail. We group the work the way those sectors actually buy it, so the brief starts closer to your world than a generic print-versus-digital split.
Hospitality, food & wine
The visual side of eating and drinking in the Mother City: printed and digital menus, wine tasting notes, cellar-door collateral, wine and spirit label artwork, event and function packs, and seasonal specials boards for restaurants, cafes and bars from the City Bowl to Sea Point and the Winelands edge.
Label and menu artwork is built to commercial print spec, CMYK with correct bleed and crop marks, and we brief or arrange the printer directly so a menu reprints cleanly and a label sits right on the bottle.
Menu and label artwork from R2,500 per item see print services.
Explore hospitality designTourism, property & lifestyle
Cape Town sells on the strength of a picture, so this stream leans visual: tour and experience brochures, guesthouse and boutique-hotel collateral, property listing and development booklets, and social sets built around the summer visitor peak for Instagram, Facebook and TikTok at correct platform sizes.
Where a brochure or campaign needs a real shot of a venue, product or team rather than stock, we arrange an on-location Cape Town shoot. From R1,500 per asset, retainers from R5,500/mo see digital services.
Explore lifestyle designTech, corporate & events
For Century City and CBD companies, the creative and film community around Woodstock, and the conference trade at the CTICC: investor and product pitch decks, capability documents, report and white-paper layout, email templates, exhibition stands, banner walls and signage.
This is where craft matters most in a brand-conscious market, so decks and documents are built as templates your team can populate without breaking the design, and large-format artwork is prepared print-ready for local signage suppliers. Scoped per project, tell us the full requirement.
Explore corporate designThe work Cape Town briefs most
Six things Cape Town brands ask us to design
Whether it prints on a menu or scrolls past on a feed, every asset carries the same finish, the design-led standard this city expects.
Brochures, menus & flyers
The printed pieces Cape Town hands out and puts on the table: restaurant and cafe menus, tour and experience brochures, property listing and development booklets, and A5 promotional flyers for retail and events, through to a 32-page capability document for a professional-services firm.
Everything is produced to commercial print spec, CMYK, 3mm bleed, crop marks and minimum 300dpi, and we work to your brand guidelines or set the visual direction as part of the job.
From R1,500 (single-page) to R18,000+ (full capability document with photography direction) see full pricing.
Learn moreSocial Media Graphics
Cape Town scrolls, and a lifestyle brand lives or dies on how its feed looks. We produce consistent, design-led social content across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn and X for restaurants, guesthouses, tour operators, retailers and agencies.
You get both templated content, monthly packs your team can populate with their own messaging, and custom campaign creative built fresh for a menu launch, a seasonal special or an event.
Delivered at correct platform sizes: Instagram square (1080x1080), Story (1080x1920), Facebook feed (1200x630) and LinkedIn. Ongoing social design on retainer from R5,500/mo see full pricing.
Learn morePitch decks & presentations
Cape Town’s startup and tech scene around Century City and the CBD lives on the pitch. We design investor and product decks, sales proposals and annual reports that hold up in the room and on the screen.
Built in PowerPoint (PPTX), Google Slides or Keynote as master slide templates, title, agenda, content, data, team and closing, so your team can populate them without breaking the design.
For investor decks and reports we can layer in copywriting and layout too. Local uses include CTICC conference talks and procurement capability documents. From R6,500 (20-slide template) see full pricing.
Learn moreExhibition, signage & wraps
Large-format design for the Cape Town conference and events trade, retail storefronts and vehicle branding: CTICC exhibition stands, pull-up banners, backdrop walls, window vinyl, wayfinding and full vehicle wraps.
Artwork is prepared to large-format spec, correct pixel dimensions for wide inkjet, vector elements and CMYK output profiles for outdoor UV print, so it holds up in the Cape wind and light.
We brief Western Cape signage suppliers directly, or produce and courier the finished print through our own print service so the artwork and the physical piece match.
From R2,500 per banner stand see full pricing.
Learn moreEmail Templates
Branded HTML email templates for Cape Town brands running Mailchimp, HubSpot, Klaviyo, ActiveCampaign or custom sends, the newsletter a guesthouse sends its list, the promo a retailer drops before a long weekend.
We design and hand-code templates from scratch, no drag-and-drop builder output, so they render correctly across Gmail, Outlook (every version), Apple Mail and mobile.
Promotional, newsletter, transactional (booking and order confirmations) and triggered workflow emails, with POPIA and CAN-SPAM best practice built in. From R3,500 per template see full pricing.
Learn moreInfographics & Data Visualisation
Infographics and data visualisation for Cape Town brands that need a complex story understood at a glance: statistical reports, process flows, comparison graphics, timelines and custom charts, the kind a tech company or property group leans on to make a case.
We produce them for print (annual reports, white papers, capability documents) and digital (website, social, LinkedIn articles, email), including custom chart design well beyond default Excel or Power BI output, brand-consistent and publication quality.
From R4,500 per standalone infographic see full pricing.
Learn moreHow a remote brief runs
Cape Town brief, Pretoria studio, no friction
Working with us from Cape Town looks the same as working with a designer down the road, just over email, video call and shared review. Here is the path from brief to delivery.
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Brief
A written brief agreed over a call or email before anything is designed: objective, audience, key message, formats, delivery requirements and deadline. If the job needs a photograph of a Cape Town venue, product or team, we plan the on-location shoot here too. Brand guidelines reviewed or set alongside the brief.
Day 1 -
Design
First concept produced by our own studio team, never outsourced or AI-generated. Single assets back in 24 to 48 hours for retainer clients, 3 to 5 business days for once-off work. Menus, decks and campaign sets run on an agreed production schedule.
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Review
Two rounds of revisions on every job, collected the remote-friendly way: mark up a shared PDF or send written notes, no need to be in the same room. Retainer clients get revisions back within 24 hours. Extra rounds beyond scope are billed hourly, and the scope is written down up front so nothing creeps.
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Deliver
Final files in every agreed format: print-ready PDF with bleed, RGB PNG, HTML email code, animated GIF, whatever the spec needs, shared via WeTransfer, Google Drive or your own system. Where you have chosen us to handle print, the finished menus, banners or signage are couriered to your Cape Town address. Source files on request.
Final delivery -
Measure & evolve
For retainer clients we look back at 30, 60 and 90 days: which menu drove covers, which social set landed, what the summer campaign returned. If the Cape Town market responds differently than expected, we adjust the design so it keeps working.
What makes us different
Why design-led Cape Town brands work with Juicy Designs
Since 2015. Servicing Cape Town remotely. Print and digital. Founder-led, no long contracts.
A studio that reads the Cape Town market
Every project is handled by our own South African design team, not outsourced to a low-cost freelancer, not run through AI generation, not handed to a junior overseas. Cape Town is one of the most brand-conscious markets in the country, and the work has to show it.
That means restrained, considered design that suits a lifestyle-led audience, print files that are correct for local production, and the same time zone for a same-day answer. When a deadline is agreed, we meet it.
Print and screen, done properly
Plenty of designers are digital-first and hand over print files that fail on press: wrong colour profile, low resolution, no bleed. Plenty of traditional print people cannot build social content that performs. A menu that looks great on screen and prints muddy helps nobody.
We design for both and know the technical demands of each. When a Cape Town campaign spans a CTICC exhibition stand, a wine label, and an Instagram set, all three come from one team with no handoff gaps.
A retainer that suits a busy season
Cape Town brands with steady design needs, restaurant groups, property agencies, retailers, tour operators and event companies, do better on a monthly retainer than project-by-project quoting, especially heading into the summer peak. You get predictable pricing, a designer who knows the brand, priority scheduling and faster turnaround.
Retainers start from R5,500/mo with no long-term contract. Retainer clients typically get 30 to 40% more design value per rand than once-off clients.
Frequently asked questions
Got questions?
Straight answers about graphic design for Cape Town brands. No runaround.
How much does graphic design cost for a Cape Town brand?
Juicy Designs charges from R1,500 for a single asset, such as an Instagram set for a Sea Point restaurant or an email banner for a Century City agency. Wine and food label or menu artwork sits from about R2,500 per item. Multi-page tourism or property brochures from R6,500. Investor and tech pitch decks from R6,500.
Monthly design retainers from R5,500/mo (roughly 8 to 12 assets), and full creative retainers from R12,000/mo for 20+ assets across print, digital and presentations. Cape Town is a design-led market, so pricing reflects the finish and craft the work needs, not a per-graphic outsourced rate.
Do you have an office in Cape Town, or do you work remotely?
Our studio is based in Pretoria and we service Cape Town remotely. Briefs, proofs and approvals run over email, video call and shared PDF review, so a V&A Waterfront hospitality group or a Woodstock studio works with us exactly as they would with a local designer.
Print is couriered to your door, and where a job needs a real photograph of a Cape Town venue, product or team, we arrange an on-location shoot rather than fake it with stock. We are honest about this: no Cape Town shopfront, just Cape Town work delivered on deadline.
Do you design for tourism, hospitality, wine and food brands?
Yes, these are core Cape Town sectors and a large part of the design we produce for the city. That includes restaurant and cafe menus, wine label and tasting-sheet artwork, guesthouse and boutique-hotel collateral, tour and experience brochures, and seasonal social campaigns tied to the summer visitor peak.
We design for the lifestyle-led, visual expectations of Cape Town audiences while keeping print files correct for local production, so a menu reprints cleanly and a label sits right on the bottle.
Can you match the polished, design-led look Cape Town brands expect?
That is the standard we design to. Cape Town is one of the most brand-conscious markets in South Africa, with a strong creative and film community around Woodstock and the CBD, so restrained typography, considered colour and clean layout matter more here than loud sales graphics.
We work within your existing brand guidelines, matching your colour specifications (CMYK, HEX, Pantone), approved typefaces and logo rules. If your brand feels dated for the local market, we can refresh or formalise the guidelines as a separate piece of work.
Do you offer a monthly design retainer?
Yes. The standard retainer from R5,500/mo covers roughly 8 to 12 assets a month, which suits a Cape Town restaurant group, property agency or retailer running steady social and promotional work. The full creative retainer from R12,000/mo covers 20+ assets including campaign creative, decks, brochures and print.
Retainer clients get priority scheduling, a designer who learns the brand, and rollover of up to half of unused credits. Billed monthly, no long-term contract.
Which file formats and print specifications do you deliver?
Digital assets ship as PNG, JPEG, animated GIF or MP4 where relevant. Print assets are supplied as print-ready PDF in CMYK with crop marks and bleed. Presentations come as PPTX or a Google Slides link. Source files (Illustrator, InDesign, Figma) are available on request for an additional fee.
We match whatever your Cape Town printer or signage supplier requires and can brief them directly, or arrange and courier the finished print ourselves so the artwork and the physical product match exactly.
Can you handle vehicle branding, signage and large-format for Cape Town events?
Yes. We design vehicle wraps, signage, banner walls and pull-up stands for Cape Town retail, events and exhibitions at venues such as the CTICC, print-ready to spec. We can also produce and arrange the print through our print service, then courier it, so the design and the final product match exactly and land on time for the event.
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500+ projects delivered for Cape Town & South Africa
From restaurants and guesthouses to tech startups, property groups and retailers, Juicy Designs produces design-led graphic work for Cape Town brands that need to look the part, on deadline, every time.
+ 54 more clients across healthcare, legal, hospitality, manufacturing, and e-commerce.
Credentials
Certified & trusted
Every platform. Every certification. One trusted team.
Google Partner
Premium agency certification
POPIA Compliant
Data protection certified
Meta Business Partner
Ads & Instagram expertise
TikTok Certified
TikTok ads specialist
HubSpot Platinum
Marketing automation
WCAG AA Compliant
Accessibility certified
Verified on Clutch
Clutch.co client reviews
Juicy Designs was founded in Pretoria in 2015 by Cobus van der Westhuizen (Co-founder & CEO) and Wynand van der Westhuizen (Co-founder & Creative Director). All certifications are held by active team members.
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