I’m Celine Da Camara - Creative Vision Meets Legal Precision

Design is more than aesthetics - it's strategy, storytelling, and intellectual property. As a qualified graphic designer with a passion for brand identity and a law graduate specializing in trademarks and IP, I bridge the gap between creative vision and legal protection.

With a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design & Visual Communications (cum laude, 2019) from Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography and an LLB (cum laude, 2024), I bring a rare combination of artistic innovation and legal foresight to every project. My experience spans diverse industries, from winemakers and engineers to fashion designers and international corporate brands - because strong design knows no limits.

I focus on trade marks, copyright law, and brand protection - ensuring that the creative work I produce isn't just visually compelling but also legally secure.

I take on a limited number of like-minded clients, collaborating with brands that value both creative excellence and strategic integrity. If you have a vision for your brand, let's explore whether our creative philosophies align.

Let's build something unique-beautiful, strategic, and legally protected.

Sasol New Signatures 2024 Finalist:

The Sasol New Signatures 2024 "Articulate" competition is under way! The results for the Western Cape region were announced, where 18 artworks out of 122 entries in Cape Town alone were selected to go through to the final round of judging. I am honoured to be one of the 18 selected artworks to go through to the final round of judging for this competition!

These selected artworks will now be transported to the Pretoria Art Museum for final judging against all the regions.

These artworks will also be exhibited and up for sale from the 5th of September until the 3rd of November 2024.

If you are near the Pretoria Art Museum, make sure to visit the exhibition and support local upcoming artists.

Finalist in the Multi-Color Global Label Solutions Craft Spirits Student Competition

The Craft Spirits awards evening held at Multi-Color Global Label Solutions plant situated in Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa. The competition brief was to create a new Craft Spirits brand, generate the name and design a new label considering all the necessary aspects of such a product in a retail space where multiple versions of the exact same product offering already exists.

Awarded poster of the month by Pecha Kucha Headquarters in Tokyo in September 2019

PechaKucha (Japanese for “chit chat”) is the world’s fastest-growing storytelling platform, used by millions around the globe. 20 slides. 20 seconds of commentary per slide. That’s it. Simple. Engaging. Spurring authentic connections. PechaKucha is the ideal tool to share passions and drop some knowledge. Global innovators use the PechaKucha platform to create powerful, visually-compelling stories that move audiences in less than 7 minutes.

In 2003, yearning for “More show. Less tell,” architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Tokyo’s Klein Dytham architecture invented PechaKucha. The initial purpose: to streamline long design presentations. Sessions soon morphed into happenings: PechaKucha Nights - first in Tokyo, then around the world. Today, more than 50,000 people present at 1,100+ global PechaKucha Nights every year. And the number keeps exploding. Today schools and business use PechaKucha to creatively and effectively engage students and employees on a range of subject matters.
- www.pechakucha.com

Loerie Finalist: 4 of my design projects have placed in 5 Loerie finalist spots in 2020. For over 40 years, the Loeries has been recognising, rewarding, inspiring and fostering creativity.

In 2019, Celine was 1 of 5 designers in South Africa who was awarded membership in the International Society of Typography Designers (ISTD) in London.

International Society of Typographic Designers, ISTD, is a professional body run by and for typographers, graphic designers and educators. The Society has an international membership who share and support its aim to create and inspire interest in all forms of typographic communication.

Working closely with education and industry, ISTD establishes, maintains and promotes typographic standards through the forum of debate and design practice. Membership is awarded to practising designers, educators and graduating students who demonstrate, through the quality of their work, their commitment to achieving the highest possible standard of visual communication.