01 / 14 · Gaborone · Incorporated 2006
Innovative thinking made easy.
Contents
This is the long official edition. Simple is the eight-page file you send tonight. House is the same facts, with room to breathe — for a bank, a tender desk, or a partner who wants the whole story.
03 / 14 · Letter
I started this practice so Botswana’s design work would be made in Botswana. GK Designs was incorporated in 2006. I still sign every page.
We invent products and services for individuals, public and private organisations. We work under one roof with architects, engineers, environmentalists and manufacturers. Time and money stay with the client.
If anything here is the brief you have been carrying — send a WhatsApp. We reply within 24 hours.
Studio
| Legal name | GK Designs (Pty) Ltd |
| Incorporated | 2006 · Gaborone, Botswana |
| Studio | Plot 23485, Phase 4, Gaborone |
| Postal | P.O. Box 26617, Game City Post, Gaborone |
| Telephone | 316 7800 |
| Fax | 316 7801 |
| +267 71 798 128 | |
| goitse30@yahoo.com | |
| Hours | 08:00–17:00 SAST · Monday–Friday |
| Reply | Within 24 hours |
Intent
Design innovative, emotive products and services that satisfy the client and are cherished. Universal and sustainable design sit in every brief.
The best innovative products and services that improve lives and the economy of our clients.
Exceed expectations. Integrity — act ethically. Universal design. Technical excellence.
We deduce a problem, write a design brief, research, prototype and protect the idea using intellectual-property legislation. Concept generation uses the skill of the team, including De Bono’s Six Hats.
Scope
Method
We do not proceed on a moodboard alone. Each gate is written. The Managing Director is on every page.
Retain
Design, media and project management under one roof. Fewer handoffs. Fewer surprises.
The Managing Director still reviews every deliverable before it leaves the studio.
Climate-aware materials, local craft networks, Gaborone pricing and pragmatism.
Trademark, industrial design, patent — filed, not promised. We have done this for our own flagship.
Reclaimed material, low-waste patterning, specifications that survive Gaborone heat.
We shoot what we design. Every brand can leave with the assets it needs to launch.
09 / 14 · Flagship
A mobile shampooing unit for home care, mobile stylists and hospitality. Compact trolley, basin, water management, adjustable headrest.
Designed by Goitseone Ketlhalefile at the University of Botswana Design Clinic. The product that proved the studio could take an idea from sketch to legal protection.
10 / 14 · Material
A separate track inside the studio for products that take their material honestly — upcycled where possible, low-waste by construction.
Eco Handbag. Reclaimed leather off-cuts. Patterned to scale with local craft partners.
Woolen bag study. From the studio’s public record. Material first, then the form.
Water & light. A household fluoride-reduction concept with the Department of Chemistry and Botswana Water Affairs, and a child’s solar rainbow diffuser.
11 / 14 · Founder
Creative Director / Managing Director
Industrial Designer · IT Educator · Visual Artist · Beauty Therapist. Bachelor of Design, University of Botswana. The Managing Director still keeps a hand on the pencil.
She founded the practice after the Design Clinic and Engineers Society, where the Mobi-styler was prototyped. Seven years of middle management sit behind the studio — governance, occupational health and safety, ergonomics, brand.
Sectors
Lodges, hotels, safari camps. Rooms and brands that survive the climate they sit in.
Private homes, plans and 3D as one package. Gaborone light, Gaborone heat.
The discipline behind the Mobi-styler. Salons, mobile care, hospitality rooms.
Curriculum, certificates, stage sets. Teaching tools that look like they belong.
From Gee’s Biltong on a shelf to a unit a factory can tool.
Exhibition systems, community programmes, filings that hold.
Media
Social cuts and ad bursts.
Brand stories and founder films.
Launches, AGM pieces.
Multi-cam testimonials.
Studio and on-set stills.
Edit, grade, motion, captions.