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Your design partner,
made to last.

Emmanuel Mbashu working from a table outdoors in Nairobi
Emmanuel Mbashu overseeing a visual installation in production
Emmanuel Mbashu working on digital design at his studio desk
Emmanuel Mbashu with collaborators during a client workshop

Our story

We built the design partner grown businesses were missing. Today we help growing businesses look as established as they already are, stay consistent as they scale, and win the work they are ready for.

Emmanuel Mbashu, Founder and Lead Designer at Piceldesigns
Design work in progress at the Piceldesigns studio

Emmanuel Mbashu, Founder

Before starting Piceldesigns in 2018, Emmanuel Mbashu spent years working alongside founders and growing teams, and kept meeting the same problem. The business had matured, the reputation was real, and the brand was still introducing them as something smaller and newer than they were.

Those founders did not need another supplier waiting for instructions. They needed a partner who understood where the business was going.

We make businesses look like where they are going, not where they have been.

The process

How We Build Brand Systems

Loose geometric forms laid out and not yet assembled

Understand the business

We begin with conversation and understand the business, audience, goals, existing strengths, and current problems.

  • Discovery call
  • Audience
  • Current state audit

Geometric forms arranged into a single composed structure

Set the direction

We turn what we learn into a clear direction for positioning, communication, and the system the business needs.

  • Positioning
  • Direction
  • Messaging

A built system of arches, blocks and glass panels interlocking

Build the system

We build the identity through typography, colour, logo structure, visual language, and practical applications.

  • Logo system
  • Typography
  • Colour
  • Applications

Three layered plates stacked and squared, ready to hand over

Test, document, hand over

We test the system across real touchpoints, document its rules, prepare usable files, and guide the handoff.

  • Testing
  • Guidelines
  • File handover

Global partnership

A Nairobi studio, working wherever you are.

Wherever your team sits, you get one accountable lead, senior direction on the work, and a team sized to the brief.

Start a project

Why Piceldesigns

Fewer handoffs. Sharper work.

  • Geometric forms arranged into a single composed structure

    / Founder led

    Direction.

    One accountable lead, and a team scaled to the project.

  • Loose geometric forms laid out and not yet assembled

    / Speed

    Weeks, Not Quarters

    Scoped tight, so the work lands while it still matters.

  • Three layered plates stacked and squared, ready to hand over

    / Built to last

    Systems That Hold

    Documented rules your team can run without us.

Ready when
you are.

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