Retail Design Studio + Product & Packaging Design + Africa
COLAB Crea+ive Studio is a full-service retail design and brand agency, a stand-alone creative studio that is part of the Colab Group. That gives us full manufacturing (permanent and semi-permanent), print, packaging and digital production in-house. Your complete end to end solution.
Design + Build + Deliver
The plus is the point: design and manufacturing under one roof, so the work we draw is the work we build. No broken concepts, no "can't be built" moments.
Strategy and design that start with the shopper and end in a built, installed, on-brand result. Click any service for more, each one has its own page.
Shopper-led store concepts, layouts and flow planning, taken all the way to construction-ready drawings.
Bespoke fixtures, gondolas, counters and joinery, designed to be made and built inside our group.
POSM and in-store activation design that stops shoppers and sells product, designed once and produced at scale.
Signage and outdoor systems that keep the brand consistent and meet the spec. Wayfinding included.
Distinctive brand systems that say who you are and why you matter. Strategy-first, design-driven.
Structural and graphic packaging that earns its place on shelf, concept to cutter-guide to production-ready.
Business cards to large-format, POS print to bespoke production, the full chain managed in-house.
Fast, SEO-optimised websites and digital that convert. Landing pages, e-commerce and corporate sites.
Pop-ups, roadshows, exhibition stands and brand spaces, designed, built and installed by us.
We are designing out a full range of COLAB POSM and retail concepts to show off our rendering and creative. It is going to be beyond epic.
Shopper, brand and site, understood before a line is drawn. Loaded and tracked through our CO System.
The big idea and the strategy that anchors everything, drawn to be built.
Layouts, fixtures, identity and experience, taken to costed, production-ready detail.
Fabrication, joinery, powder-coating and print, made real inside our own group.
Installed and consistent, one store or a national rollout, then measured.
Strategy and design that start with the shopper and end in a buildable, costed drawing set. Nothing that can't be made.
We manufacture in-house. Where a job needs expertise outside our own, we use trusted strategic partners, and we are open with you about who makes what.
One flagship or a national footprint, installed, consistent and on-brand across every site.
A design studio and manufacturing hub under one roof, reaching every part of the region, and the sectors we know best:
A proudly South African group spanning design, manufacturing, technology and community. The reason we can take a project from first sketch to installed reality.
We are a full-service retail design and brand agency in South Africa, part of the Colab Group. We design and build retail environments, shopfitting and fixtures, shopper marketing and POSM, signage and outdoor, brand identity, packaging, print and digital, end to end.
All designs, files and concepts remain the property of Colab Holdings (Pty) Ltd until release. None may be reproduced, manufactured or supplied to a third party until release and the agreed usage-rights transfer has been approved.
Yes, we manufacture in-house through the Colab Group. Where a job needs expertise outside our own, we use trusted strategic manufacturing partners, and we are open with clients about who makes what.
We started in Durban in 2021 and now reach every part of sub-Saharan Africa.
Load a brief through our online CO System (Creative Order), or email hello@colabcreativestudio.co.za, and we will get started.
Load a brief through our CO System and we'll get started.