About Asylum Design and Development

We are Asylum, and we are crazy about website design & development and absolutely mental about photography! Let us rehabilitate your business with a fresh web presence with limitless functionality or a virtual tour walk-through of your lodge or premises.

We are a jack of all trades when it comes do digital media and marketing:

Website design and development
Web based Software Design and Development
Landscape Photography
Virtual Tour Photography
Walk through Software, both online and offline
... etc.

Website
Photography

Web is an ever changing industry, which is why your website should be on par with or better than interantional standards to get the best return of investement ot of it.

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Oshakati Premier Electric

After a few months of web based software development we finally launched the website for Oshakati Premiere Electric. Its actually our first take at a progressive web app, which basically eliminates the overall need for an actual app! To see these app like features, you will need to launch the site on your mobile phone.

In addition this website is packed with features, such as the Report It functionality, where the user can report a fault by taking and uploading a photo as well as allowing location services to pin where the photo was taken i.e. if there is an electrical hazard, one will be able to send the details to OPE.

Find a vendor which filters the table of vendors according to your location. It also shows you a google map with your location along with a radius where the closest vendors are.

Users can also Request a Call Out to their residence with the help of location services.

All of these functions are available to non-registered users, but so much easier and quicker to use once the user is registered, as all of the user details are pre-populated in the forms.

Once the user is registered they can also add their accounts and prepaid meters. This allows the user to request a call out to the location of a saved prepaid meter. And in the near future the user will be able to buy electricity from the website and choose the meter they would like to top up.

There is also an online chat available to registered users, which we designed and developed to ask questions, send photos, links and documents to an OPE representative.

Registered users also get notifications of scheduled power outages, when an account or prepaid meter is approved, when they have a new message in chat ... etc.

If you are an OPE customer, you should consider registering on the website and using all these tools.

Find a vendor which filters the table of vendors according to your location. It also shows you a google map with your location along with a radius where the closest vendors are.

Users can also Request a Call Out to their residence with the help of location services.

All of these functions are available to non-registered users, but so much easier and quicker to use once the user is registered, as all of the user details are pre-populated in the forms.

There is also an online chat available to registered users, which we designed and developed to ask questions, send photos, links and documents to an OPE representative.

Registered users also get notifications of scheduled power outages, when an account or prepaid meter is approved, when they have a new message in chat ... etc.

If you are an OPE customer, you should consider registering on the website and using all these tools.

Central Technical Services

Another re-rehabilitated website by Asylum! This website has all the aspects of a custom built website. It has a user friendly content management system that allows the customer to maintain all areas of the website with seconds. The website's main custom feature is the relationship of all projects, product categories, product sub-categories, brands and products, which makes it very easy to maintain current pages as well as the support of an online store in near future. Its always such a pleasure if something like this comes together, and the client is happy!

Ultimate Safaris

Feast your eyes on our new FLAGSHIP website cruising above all tourism websites in Namibia! 😆 I present to you Ultimate Safaris. www.ultimatesafaris.na

About 11 Years ago I had my first meeting with Tristan Cowley from Ultimate Safaris and since then I have been doing their website and most of their branding - book covers, luggage tags, flyers, water bottles, corporate gifts, socks, aprons, the 10 year bash, etc. ... you name it, I was there for them and helped with the graphics! We occasionally fought, especially when it comes to using capital letters or not, but we never gave up on each other and look where it got us today - this website! We are so proud of this!

This website is the most custom solution we have ever built for a client - a choice of 3 pre-footer content sections, linking youtube videos, uploading your own HTML5 videos, scheduled tour calendars, mozaic galleries, parallaxes, animated counters, numerous JS animations and calculations and last but not least - loads of elephant skin backgrounds 👍... I mean just go and look at the pages e.g.:

But ... I will have to add, Tristan and I we sat hours, days, weeks, grinding on the layout, making sure there is as little white space as possible, statically building fully fledged pages so that we can see how it would look like and perform on different devices, giving us challenges we have never faced before, ... without all of this, and the spectacular imagery, video footage and Spitzenklasse written content and last and in no way least, Nurse Nadja's exceptional skills in development the website would not have been as nice as it is.

It was an absolute pleasure working with Tristan once again, and I'm looking forward to the upcoming projects we are working on! "To the best Tour Operator in Namibia!"

Oh and before I forget: We also built a small attendance register that allows the front desk to have an overview of the people currently in the office. If someone leaves the office for coffee, a meeting or annual leave, they add the event minutes before the occurrence or schedule it ahead of the time. There is nothing worse than having the receptionist put you through to a phone that is never answered, or tell you that she does not know where the person is.

Nammed Medical Aid Fund

After having launched 2 different Medical Aid websites, NMC Fund and Bankmed - We bring to you a Medical Aid website that helps you choose an option suited for you, your dependents and your budget! You can compare options and have a quote mailed to you automatically!!!

Looking for a Nammed designated healthcare provider? You can search Nammed’s database or browse a map to see who is nearby.

And if thats not enough, Nammed came up with a brilliant concept of categorizing their options into life-stages, meaning if you are 30years young then you have 3 options suited for you... - look for the life stages on the home page as well as the side navigation of all pages.

Melbic Car Retals, Transfers & Tours

Virtual Tours have always been our strong point but lately clients have been enquiring about standard photography and video as well, which is why we expanded into these areas.

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Real Estate Virtual Tour

A few months back I met a Real Estate Agent, and I ran her through a couple of ideas on how one could advertise high end properties more effectively, or uniquely, especially now in these tough times of pandemics and economic crises. I offered her to do an informative fly through / virtual tour of one of her properties. After a short time she asked me to join her to a farm in the south which they have been trying to sell for a while. I spent 2 days there to capture the footage - virtual tours, photography and a video. After a month the farm was sold! Enjoy the footage!

Barkhan Dune Retreat 2020

Barkhan Dune Retreat outdid themselves again! When I was told that they had created 5 new chalets I had no idea how beautiful and genius they would be! Along with the chalets, they created an entire limescale filtering system, gray water recycling as well as solar power that supports multiple air conditioners! Brakhan Dune Retreat, in my opinion, is one of the iconic lodges in Namibia!

Fishriver Lodge

Its the beginning of the year 2020 and the Fishriver Lodge is closed for renovations and the heat, and we completely underestimated the heat. Here is a project where the client requested Lodge photography, photography of the activities, their new camps as well as virtual tours for all of the above. Additionally they requested GPS plotting of their new hiking routes.

Have a look at the virtual tours here.

Namibia Breweries Limited

We have designed and developed an interactive educational tour of the brewing process of Namibian Breweries Limited. The project includes virtual tours that allow you to walk around on the premises and click on certain machines and equipment to read more about its function in the brewing process or watch a video that takes you inside the machines. In this project we took the idea of a virtual tour and turned it into an information hub. Too bad we cannot make it public, for you to see, it was meant for internal use only.

O&L Leisure Staff Photography

A few weeks ago O&L Leisure tasked us to take photos of 28 staff members at their offices. We had to carry the studio lighting and ideal seating to their offices and setup in front of a canvas print they have hanging on the wall. We had to do this 3 times to cover all the staff members.