Sports & Community2025
Cape Town Golf Society
A full-stack tournament management platform built from scratch — bookings, fourballs, and Stableford scoring across a full season.
Live platform managing real rounds, signups and tournament scoring.
Web & Graphic Design Studio
Design,engineered.
Websites, ecommerce and brand identity for businesses that take growth seriously — designed and engineered end to end.
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Years inside real businesses
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Years leading technical teams
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Designed & engineered in-house
First impressions are
measured in milliseconds.
We engineer them to count.
From first sketch to live site.
Landing Pages
High-converting, beautifully designed single-page websites that capture leads and tell your story.
Ecommerce Stores
Full online stores with payment integration, inventory management, and a seamless checkout experience.
Graphic Design
Logos, brand kits, social media assets, and print-ready materials crafted with purpose.
Brand Identity
Complete branding packages — from name to colour palette to guidelines — built to last.
SEO Optimisation
On-page SEO, Core Web Vitals tuning, and structured data so your site ranks where it matters.
Motion & Animation
Custom video animations and interactive motion effects that make your brand unforgettable.
Proof, not promises.
Interior Design & Joinery2025
Studio 89 Design
A dark, editorial portfolio site for a bespoke kitchen and joinery studio — refined enough to match their craft.
Live client site — studio89design.co.za
Fashion Ecommerce2024Mockup
Luxe Threads
A premium fashion boutique taken online — full ecommerce with Stripe payments, inventory, and SEO-optimised product pages.
R180,000 in online sales in the first 60 days of launch.
Real Estate2025Mockup
Haven Properties
A modern listings platform for a boutique agency — searchable property database, agent profiles, lead capture.
40% of qualified leads now come through the website.
* Luxe Threads and Haven Properties are design mockups demonstrating capability — not live client sites.
Design rooted in real-world experience
Artistic
Purposeful
Personal
The unusual background
I'm Cliff van Tonder — a Cape Town-based web and graphic designer with a background most designers don't have. Over 20 years across retail, warehousing, and financial services taught me what businesses actually need, and what gets in the way of growth.
The data years
For over 10 of those years I held technical and team lead positions — as a database and BI engineer, managing systems, people, and processes at scale. That gave me a deep love of data and an analytical eye that informs every design decision.
The full stack
As a full stack engineer — historically and today — I don't just design and hand off. I build. From database architecture to front-end polish, every project is engineered end-to-end. That's a combination most studios can't offer.
The approach
Great design is deeply personal. Every business has a unique story, and my job is to translate that story into a visual experience that connects emotionally with the right audience. No templates. No shortcuts.
Your move.
Let's talk.
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