Strategy Drives Design

"The brand becomes the customer experience and the customer experience becomes the brand”  - Antonis  Kocheilas, 2018 (MD Strategy - Ogilvy Worldwide)

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Elevate Your Environment

At OneTwoSix, we're not just a professional services company – we are your strategic partners, dedicated to bringing your brand vision to life. With a formidable presence spanning South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Namibia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Germany, our vast experience in Africa has fostered profound relationships with top-tier clientele. 

We deliver international-quality, locally appropriate solutions that resonate with your brand's essence. Every project we undertake is rooted in a deep understanding of your unique needs, acquired by spending time in conversation with your key stakeholders.

Our first step? Pinpointing the core challenges your brand faces, identifying who benefits from our solutions, and ensuring seamless execution aligned with your intentions. The result is a meticulously tailored strategy – from operational dynamics and customer experience blueprints, to the minutiae of materials and colours. Choose OneTwoSix.

Let's craft world-class, impactful solutions together.

Portfolio

Retail Bank Branches

Future-Ready Banking Spaces: Revolutionise your branches with innovative design solutions that anticipate tomorrow's banking needs and blend operational requirement with customer-centricity, creating inviting environments that foster trust in a welcoming, functional, environment that's future ready.

Corporate Head Offices

Strategic Workspace Elegance: Curate sophisticated office interiors that resonate with your company's values. Our designs promote adaptability, fostering an environment where innovation and collaboration thrive, ensuring your corporate headquarters are poised to meet future challenges.

QSRs (Quick-Service Restaurants)

Dynamic Dining Experiences: Redefine fast-food spaces with design concepts that maximise efficiency, reflect your brand identity and enhance the overall dining journey, enticing customers to savour their meals in a vibrant and comfortable setting.

Retail Space

Captivating Retail Ambiance: Craft compelling retail environments that captivate shoppers, leveraging intuitive layouts, immersive displays, and a harmonious blend of aesthetics and functionality, ensuring memorable experiences that drive customer engagement and position your brand as a trendsetter.

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Brand Strategy and Operations combine to excite the customer.

Crafting interiors with intention. At OneTwoSix, we specialise in designing and sourcing interiors that seamlessly align with corporate visions, retail atmospheres, and vibrant interaction spaces. Dive deeper into our expertise:

  • Strategic Alignment: Each design choice is rooted in brand strategy, ensuring interiors echo your brand's message and purpose.
  • Appropriate Expertise: From corporate environments to dynamic retail outlets, our designs optimise and enhance every space type.
  • Authentic Experience Creation: Our interiors do more than just decorate – they breathe life into brand narratives, creating immersive experiences for all who enter.

In essence, OneTwoSix transforms spaces into tactile brand stories, ensuring every corner speaks volumes of your vision and ethos. Elevate your spaces with us.

Design with Intent!

At OneTwoSix, our architectural prowess transcends conventional boundaries, encompassing a diverse range of specialisations. Delve into our core strengths:

  • Corporate and Retail Mastery: Expertise tailored to modern corporate and retail environments, ensuring structures that resonate with brand ethos.
  • Luxury Living Spaces: Our vision extends to up-market residential developments and multi-unit complexes, redefining luxury living.
  • Flow Planning & Resolution: Beyond aesthetics, our architectural designs prioritise optimal flow and space utility, resolving any spatial challenges with finesse.

    • In short, OneTwoSix crafts architectural solutions that seamlessly blend form and function, fostering environments that inspire, impress, and innovate. Partner with us to transform visions into monumental realities.

The Brand - it defines The Business in the customer's heart.

At OneTwoSix, we believe that great design does more than just look good – it connects, resonates, and speaks to the heart. Here's how our expertise stands out:

  • Comprehensive Brand-Building: From creating full-fledged brand identities to crafting captivating brochures, we are your end-to-end solution for powerful corporate identity systems.
  • Interior Graphics with Depth: Beyond aesthetics, our interior designs aim to weave brand narratives that make spaces feel both personal and powerful. We transcend traditional design boundaries, offering top-tier interior graphics that elevate spaces and brand perception.
  • Signage Expertise: Whether indoors or outdoors, our tailor-made signage solutions are not just informative but also cohesive with, and aligned to, your brand's aesthetic.

In the intricate dance of brand-building, OneTwoSix ensures every step, every design, every touchpoint links your brand's essence to the hearts of your audience. Partner with us to build not just a brand, but a legacy.

Brand Strategy creation with Business Strategy at its heart!

At OneTwoSix, we recognize that the most impactful brand strategies are deeply rooted in astute business understanding. Here's our distinctive approach:

  • Business-to-Brand Blueprint: We don't just create brand strategies - we intricately weave them from your core business strategies, ensuring alignment that drives tangible results.
  • Local Nuances, Global Appeal: With an ear to the ground, we appreciate the subtleties of local brands, and with a global perspective, we ensure international brand standards to resonate universally.
  • Adaptive Strategy Crafting: Recognising the dynamism of markets, our strategies are both agile and insightful, catering to shifting business landscapes while keeping brand integrity intact.

At OneTwoSix, we don’t just craft brands - we sculpt business narratives that resonate, differentiate, and elevate in both local and global arenas. Embark on a strategic journey with us, where your business vision becomes a compelling brand story.

Portfolio

Dive into our Portfolio: A Symphony of Strategy and Design

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Gulf Energy Forecourt Design

Kenya

Big Square Identity System

Kenya

Bank of Abyssinia Branch Design

Ethiopia

Botswana Innovation Hub Competition Entry

Botswana

Pizza Mojo Identity System

Kenya

Tabooz Retail Store Interiors

South Africa

Ace Auto Scrapyard Head Office and Warehouse

South Africa

Big Square Foodcourt Building

Kenya

Kilimanjaro Identity System

Nigeria

National Bank Retail Bank Branch Design

Kenya

UBA Retail & Premium Branch Design

Nigeria

8ta Mobile Retail Unit

South Africa

Testimonials

What some of our clients have to say ...

Isaac Awuondo

Chairman, NCBA Bank Kenya PLC

We were pleased with the outcome of the project for the business, and the positive responses received from our customers and staff alike. Nick was always prepared to go beyond the confines of the appointment to deliver additional value and insights over the project’s lifetime.

James Loden

Chief Operating Officer, Diamond trust Bank, Kenya

OneTwoSix's designs for our bank branches have been nothing short of remarkable. Their ability to infuse fresh and modern aesthetics into each branch, while maintaining a focus on spaciousness and functionality, has greatly enhanced the overall customer experience.

Rosalind Gichuru

Director Marketing & Communication, KCB Group

The innovative and contemporary design produced was aligned with the brand values, as well as the vision and operational changes required to compliment the future functioning of the bank’s branches.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Anyone with a customer with whom they would like to connect on an emotional level with ... brand choice is led by the heart.

  • To date we have worked in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Botswana, Namibia, Ethiopia, UAE, Germany, and Brazil .

  • The key for us is building relationships with local businesses that implement our design. Most commonly these are companies that are already approved by our clients, or with whom they have relationships.

  • OneTwoSix has solid relationships with many professional freelancers, all selected because they are specialists, with many years of experience, in their specific fields. We work like this to ensure the best brains are working on our clients' projects at all times.

Where we do it

OneTwoSix has done work in many countries around the world. See the list below for a detailed list.

Places we have clients

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Contact

Currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa, with an office opening soon in Cologne, Germany and a new Group Head Office based in Zagreb, Croatia opening in early 2024

Addresses

Kneza Mislava, Zagreb, Croatia
Morningside Manor, Johannesburg, South Africa

Email Us

info@one-two-six.com
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Call Us

+385 99 163 3550
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