The Msasa Collective

Hey there, lovelies! I'm excited to share with you a Logo, Business Card, and Photography project from our archives.

So enjoyed working on this custom brand identity for

Your brand, our passion.

Shoot me an email and let's chat about how we can bring your vision to life. I'm currently booking projects for May ✨

Feel free to drop me a line at [email protected]

I'm always happy to hear from you!

x K

Little moments. Framed in light.

LAINI “Lah-ee-nee” • Meaning ‘’soft”.

The Laini Handmade logo was one of our first projects of 2022. A celebration of East African cloth.

So awesome seeing our designs come to life 💫

Little moments ⋒ Sneak peek of this shoot with my special friends.

Curiosity 🦎

Menu Design by The Msasa Collective ⋒ The Oak Tree Restaurant

Penton & Co - founded through a love of colour and textiles .

Hand-sewn espadrilles.
Community driven.
Zimbabwe.

Get in touch with us for Logo Design.

“The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.

Is it that they are born again
And we grow old? No, they die too,
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written down in rings of grain.

Yet still the unresting castles thresh
In fullgrown thickness every [September].
Last year is dead, they seem to say,
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.”

- Philip Larkin

Jumping on here to answer a common question I receive:

“Do I need a website?”

The long and the short of it is YES (in most cases). Websites can be your most valuable digital asset in 2021.

Here’s why:

⋒ Online presence 24/7
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⋒ Information exchange
» Gives customers all the information they want, in one place.

⋒ Credibility
» You need to show them you’re legit. Professional brands invest in websites.

⋒ Market expansion
» Accessible worldwide.

WEBSITES ARE AMAZING - you should book in with us to build one for you.

A passage to dawn.

When I was a little girl, my mum used to take us on adventures on the farm on which she grew up. Along dusty roads, she wove together stores of giants and hyenas who wore amber beads, witchdoctors and their crooked curses and ancient chiefs who fell from power and whose spirits still hung above the land in a thick green blanket. It was almost as though her stories were her obligation to our generation; exhilarating our little spirits.

We used to explore caves and spend hours sifting through cool sand to find arrow heads, tribal beads and bits of broken pots - fast fluttering memories of her soft voice whispering stories of warriors who painted crocodiles and rivers with blood on the cleft granite walls that surrounded us. She engaged, inspired and educated us with her words.

And I think that resultantly, the very power of words is fascinating to me. The ability to shatter or stretch a person to great lengths with syllables strung together into meaning. And therefore, the importance of shaping our own realities through the narratives we tell. And choose to live.

Mumma, thank you for teaching me the power of storytelling and the weight of words. Helen Boaler

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Pictured here are some of the ancient beads I found the last time I went looking. How incredible?

I treasure sometimes sunrises like this.

⋒ Creative branding concepts.

Here’s to beautiful mumma moments ✨

Hey everybody,

Today I want to stress the importance of a high-quality, scalable logo for your brand. While free design programs sound like an absolute breeze and the most cost-effective option out there, you will most likely run into trouble down the line.

Here’s why:

⋒ Your logo is the cornerstone of your brand and will probably be used in print at some point in your business journey. The low-quality files you receive from free design programs will never let you scale you logo to print on signage and other bigger projects later on.

Think of the future now. can redesign elements of your existing logo and indefinitely scale the project without losing quality.

Here are some lovely clients I’ve worked with to transform their logos into vectors.

Studio rebrand + love for my most delightful friend, Tyler Kennaird at

You absolutely must check out this new studio space. It’s gorgeous.

Product Photoshoots.

⋒ I thought I would get creative with the jar placement in this shot and I really like the way it turned out.

Tag a brand, small business or person who would benefit from product photography in the comments below 👇🏼

Super fun little design projects for Sunbum Zim 🌞🍑

Get in touch for:

⋒ Logos Branding
⋒ Gift Voucher Design
⋒ Custom Label Design

I love this photo. It’s no photographic masterpiece, but when I look at it, I smile.

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It’s like holding a life up to the light and seeing something simple and beautiful: a moment where the sounds of all those things that can’t be seen sing within everything that can. And it reminds me how lovely it can be to sit, bum firmly plonked on the grass, as the world spins and the sun sets behind you.

Emma Pattison

I thought that Folly deserved a feature on page because:

⋒ She is ever so sweet and clever.

⋒ She has kept me sane whilst self-isolating over the past week.

⋒ She filled a gap in my life that I didn’t even know was there. And for that I am grateful.

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Let’s be more like Hugo in 2021; let’s lie on our backs in the garden and munch on fresh peas 🌱

Hi everyone,

I am looking for a Social Media Manager to join The Msasa Collective team.

Candidates must have:

⋒ Strong writing and communication skills.
⋒ An established ability to synthesise and communicate information quickly.
⋒ Excellent organisational skills, focus, and attention to detail.
⋒ Graphic design skills for creation of graphic content for social media.
⋒ A positive and passionate attitude towards social media content creation and life in general.

Happy Friday and hope to hear from you soon.

Please email your CV to [email protected]

10.10.2020.

My brother got married to the most perfect lassie and they trusted me behind the lens despite me being an absolute drip at weddings and drizzing throughout 😂

Spirit birds flying together through the skies of life: so much love for you &

One of my photos is on the cover of magazine 🙌🏼 🥰 So exciting.

Make sure you buy a copy... I also have a little write-up on Jacaranda season in Harare inside - a touch of history and some pretty pics.

For me, Jacarandas hold the seasonal promise of November rain and as such are an evanescent symbol of hope.

Such a fun Saturday spent photographing the launch. Gorgeous pieces accessorised by .

Brachystegia spiciformis Benth; commonly known as the Zebra Wood or Msasa Tree 🍂

Beautiful in all seasons but breathtaking at sunrise in spring.

Discover Zimbabwe 🐾