Work
Strategy, design and digital work for clearer next moves.
I work through Lucidity, my client-facing practice for strategy, design and digital systems. From a brand or website to a prototype or campaign, I help turn a complex brief into a clearer message, structure and experience.
Lucidity capabilities
A connected view of how Lucidity approaches strategy, design, digital systems and ongoing improvement.
Lucidity overview

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Lucidity
Strategy, design and digital systems that make the next decision clearer.

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What Lucidity is
Lucidity joins strategic direction with the work needed to make it real and keep it useful.

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The problem I solve
Lucidity looks for the connection between message, proof, experience, measurement and operations.

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Where Lucidity is useful
Fit is defined by the shape of the decision and delivery problem, not by sector.

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The Lucidity formula
Four conditions for work that can be understood, delivered, used and developed.

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The approach
Principles that keep the strategic decision, delivery work and handover connected.

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How I work
A shared loop for strategic, creative, digital and ongoing work.

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What the process produces
Each stage makes progress tangible without assuming a fixed deliverable list.

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Capability ecosystem
Seven connected areas anchored in clearer decisions and connected delivery.
Capability areas

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Strategy & advisory
Practical strategic direction for leadership and delivery teams.

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Brand & identity
Visual and verbal tools that work across real touchpoints.

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Websites & digital experience
Websites, web applications and interactive experiences built around real journeys.

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Content & growth
Communication systems organised around audience needs and capacity.

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Search, measurement & optimisation
Search, analytics and reporting linked to practical decisions.

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Digital foundations & continuity
Foundational work, recurring baseline care and variable support.

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Knowledge, AI & capability
Source-aware knowledge and AI-assisted systems with human review.

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AI-enabled practice
Direct AI collaboration across prototype, build, maintenance, growth and polish.
Working model
Engagement and next steps

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Offer ladder
Possible entry points that reduce uncertainty without fixed packages.

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Engagement patterns
Working patterns for defined projects, partnerships and advisory.

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Creative & market modules
Creative and market-facing work selected to support the core engagement.

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Product & technology modules
Product, technology and intelligence extensions for defined needs.

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Scope & commercial boundaries
Capabilities show where I can help through Lucidity; a tailored proposal defines the engagement.

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Next step
Share the context, choose a starting point and receive a tailored proposal.
Selected work
Choose the kind of work you need to see. Where a client spans several services, each card leads to the complete story.

Downtown MPA Event 2025
Downtown Music Publishing Africa grew from a site-maintenance relationship into a broader rebrand and communication system for a music-publishing business.
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Downtown Fame Week Video
Downtown Music Publishing Africa grew from a site-maintenance relationship into a broader rebrand and communication system for a music-publishing business.
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Downtown MPA Fame Week Stomp Video
Downtown Music Publishing Africa grew from a site-maintenance relationship into a broader rebrand and communication system for a music-publishing business.
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Downtown logo video
Downtown Music Publishing Africa grew from a site-maintenance relationship into a broader rebrand and communication system for a music-publishing business.
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Downtown Music Publish Africa Launch Intro
Downtown Music Publishing Africa grew from a site-maintenance relationship into a broader rebrand and communication system for a music-publishing business.
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Downtown Music Publish Africa Stomp Intro
Downtown Music Publishing Africa grew from a site-maintenance relationship into a broader rebrand and communication system for a music-publishing business.
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Stealth Talent Solutions Candidate Matching
Stealth Talent Solutions brings a broader design system to its public-facing work, extending beyond the core video logo & branding website into the practical materials around it.
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30 Years of Celebrating Women in SA Video
Constitution Hill’s ongoing digital work spans Basha Uhuru, the Human Rights Festival and Women’s Month programming: a cultural programme that needs to be as alive online as it is on site.
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Avance Consulting Group video
Avance Consulting Group brings a broader design system to its public-facing work, extending beyond the core logo & branding video website into the practical materials around it.
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Basha Uhuru Teaser video 2024
Constitution Hill’s ongoing digital work spans Basha Uhuru, the Human Rights Festival and Women’s Month programming: a cultural programme that needs to be as alive online as it is on site.
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Basha Uhuru - 30 Years Of Creative Freedom looped video
Constitution Hill’s ongoing digital work spans Basha Uhuru, the Human Rights Festival and Women’s Month programming: a cultural programme that needs to be as alive online as it is on site.
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Aspire logo reveal video
Aspire Business Consulting Group uses an immersive digital system to give the brand a more active, exploratory presence online.
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Aspire - Strategize Transform Digitize video
Aspire Business Consulting Group uses an immersive digital system to give the brand a more active, exploratory presence online.
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Nestle Conference 2024 invite
Nestle Conference 2024 invite is a motion-led project, using pace and sequence to give the visual work a stronger presence.
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Freedomvisory 3D Logo Reveal
Freedomvisory combines website and motion work to create a more dimensional digital presence.
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Risetek Global road titles video
Risetek Global brings a broader design system to its public-facing work, extending beyond the core video website into the practical materials around it.
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VP Consulting video
VP Consulting brings brand, website and motion work together in a compact professional-services presence.
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Creative Takeaways 2022 Upbeat video
Creative Takeaways 2022 Upbeat is a short motion piece built around an energetic visual treatment.
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Nando's Creative Takeaways 2022 Upbeat video
Nando's Creative Takeaways 2022 Upbeat video is a motion-led project, using pace and sequence to give the visual work a stronger presence.
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ACCIT logo animation video
Accit is a motion-led project, using pace and sequence to give the visual work a stronger presence.
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ACCIT logo cloud reveal video
Accit is a motion-led project, using pace and sequence to give the visual work a stronger presence.
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Obunye logo animation reveal
Obunye logo animation reveal is a motion-led project, using pace and sequence to give the visual work a stronger presence.
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ACCIT transition logos video
Accit is a motion-led project, using pace and sequence to give the visual work a stronger presence.
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Co-insight video
Co Insight brings a broader design system to its public-facing work, extending beyond the core logo & branding video website into the practical materials around it.
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Co-insight logo animation video
Co Insight brings a broader design system to its public-facing work, extending beyond the core logo & branding video website into the practical materials around it.
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Risetek Global high tech data video
Risetek Global brings a broader design system to its public-facing work, extending beyond the core video website into the practical materials around it.
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Birthday Party invite video
Birthday Party Invite — two videos is a motion-led project, using pace and sequence to give the visual work a stronger presence.
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Birthday Party invite - Save the date video
Birthday Party Invite — two videos is a motion-led project, using pace and sequence to give the visual work a stronger presence.
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Acumen Media logo animation video
Acumen Media brings identity, digital design and motion together as one public-facing body of work.
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Hinthunt logo animation video
Hinthunt brings identity, website and motion work together in a cohesive public-facing expression.
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Twisted Sparkles animation video
Twisted Sparkles combines a clear digital presence with a motion-led visual layer.
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Ceramic Style Expo Tutorial Demo video
A product-showcase platform for Ceramic Industries' internal sales team, combining a custom website with instruction and how-to video.
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The Art of More intro video
The Art Of More brings a broader design system to its public-facing work, extending beyond the core logo & branding video website into the practical materials around it.
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Oak Grove kids lego video
Oak Grove combines website and motion work to create a more dimensional digital presence.
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The Valley School video
The Valley School brings identity, stationery, website, social elements and short-form motion together for a school’s ongoing public communication.
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Indigas blazing fire logo video
Indigas uses an immersive digital system to give the brand a more active, exploratory presence online.
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Indigas burning fire logo video
Indigas uses an immersive digital system to give the brand a more active, exploratory presence online.
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Indigas fast fire logo video
Indigas uses an immersive digital system to give the brand a more active, exploratory presence online.
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Oak Grove kids shapes opener video
Oak Grove combines website and motion work to create a more dimensional digital presence.
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Oak Grove kids planet video
Oak Grove combines website and motion work to create a more dimensional digital presence.
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SybraChem 3D particles logo build and break video
A white-label brand and ecommerce project for Sybrachem, a sister company to Atlas Oil, taking the work from naming and identity through to an online store.
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Totalsports Nike concept
Totalsports Nike is an experiment in presenting a Nike and Totalsports concept through a bright geometric title treatment.
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Let's build something spectacular together Video
Let's build something spectacular together is a motion-led project, using pace and sequence to give the visual work a stronger presence.
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Norman Goodfellows Black Friday Product video
Norman Goodfellows is a motion-led project, using pace and sequence to give the visual work a stronger presence.
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Norman Goodfellows Black Friday Teaser
Norman Goodfellows is a motion-led project, using pace and sequence to give the visual work a stronger presence.
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CTM Black Friday Promo 2018 video
CTM is a motion-focused project built around a distinctive visual presence.
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CTM Black Friday Promo 2018 teaser video
CTM is a motion-focused project built around a distinctive visual presence.
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Oak Grove opener video
Oak Grove combines website and motion work to create a more dimensional digital presence.
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CTM how to enter video
CTM is a motion-focused project built around a distinctive visual presence.
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Bravo Group fabric video
Marketing campaign work for Bravo Group, combining website and video elements.
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Park Village Video
Park Village Video is a motion-led project, using pace and sequence to give the visual work a stronger presence.
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CTM online offering combined video
CTM is a motion-focused project built around a distinctive visual presence.
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CTM 2016 Black Friday Madness Video
CTM is a motion-focused project built around a distinctive visual presence.
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ideology introduction video
Ideology brings a broader design system to its public-facing work, extending beyond the core video logo & branding website into the practical materials around it.
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Selected testimonials
“Richard is easy to brief, delivers high-quality work first time and meets deadlines reliably. He notices the small details without needing to be prompted, which makes collaboration smooth for marketing teams.”
Ingrid De Jager, African Sales CompanyAfrican Sales CompanyEdited for clarity“The new brand gave Aspire BCG a clearer voice and a more confident public presence. It helped the team define who they were becoming and present the quality of their work more accurately.”
Bianca A. Penaloza, Aspire BCGAspire BCGEdited for clarityWhat I help with
- Positioning, messaging, and offer clarity
- Brand strategy and content systems
- Product and website structure
- AI-assisted product, web, and systems design/development
- Performance, SEO, analytics, and event tracking
- AI-assisted knowledge and resource workflows
- Strategic documentation, proposals, SOWs, and decision support
- Creative systems, prototypes, and experiments
How I work
- Discover — understand the problem, source material, audience, constraints, and definition of done.
- Design — shape the message, structure, system, interface, or route.
- Deliver — build the page, workflow, asset, documentation, or implementation path.
- Drive — measure, refine, support, and improve what matters after launch.
Best fit
Good fit: founders, creative teams, consultants, publishers, artists, and organisations trying to make complex material clearer and more usable.
Strongest briefs: brand refreshes, conversion-led sites, content/SEO systems, proposal/SOW scaffolding, analytics/event tracking, and practical documentation that turns vague direction into a usable system.
Not a fit: purely decorative work, logo-only asks, or vague “make it pop” briefs with no decision-maker access or source material.
Selected routes
Book a conversation
Start here if you have a real problem to frame, scope, build, or improve.
Lucidity
Strategy-led design, branding, websites, WordPress/Divi development, launch, and care.
CroftCo
Applied clarity, strategy, and systems for complex work where relevant.
Professional profile and work context.
GitHub
Code, experiments, and public repositories.
432
Future-facing experiments, ideas, and project work.
Resources or Work?
Use Resources when you want a framework, checklist, prompt, or reference you can apply yourself.
Use Work when the material is complex, the stakes are higher, or the thinking needs to become a live brand, site, system, or decision surface.
The work is not to add more noise. It is to make the useful shape easier to see, build, measure, and improve.

