Asylum Portfolio

Website Design & Development
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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Ugab Game Farm and Lodge

In November 2022 Ugab Game Farm and Lodge contracted us to design and develop their website. The lodge was newly established and partially still in construction, thus all we had to work with was a logo, but in the shortest time we planned a trip to the beautiful Damaraland and within a week we shot all the photography, virtual tours, time lapses, drone footage, ... etc. seen on the website. This visit was all we needed to inspire us with the design of the website.

This week was so action packed, filled with game drives early in the morning and late in the afternoon, seeing antelope species I didn't know existed, directing a bunch or tourists who we borrowed from a nearby lodge to model for the photos and drives, making fires and the typical early mornings for the Golden hour photos, also known as the "Money Shots"! :D

That was a busy week and I think it definitely payed off. Again, thank you for a great week and for the opportunity to let us show what Asylum is capable of.

I think we ended up with a stunning product with a ton of variety in media and interactivity.

completed on 01 January 2023

Collexia Beyond Payments

Collexia is live! What a fun design to work on.

Traditionally websites have a horizontal navigation, but this comes with the drawback of having limited space for the needed navigation. It is the responsibility of the designer to get as much information to get a good feeling of how big the navigation might be, and in this case it was just a little more than usual.

The client handed me a few brochures and a corporate profile, which both had Dunes and the Hexagon shapes in the design. Which is exactly why i used these in the website design:

The hexagon graphics as frames for the people profile pictures, news and info-graphics.
The Dunes with the parallax filling the white space for a seamless full-viewport page design and a sense of depth.

This full-viewport design pushed the content area into a manageable with which makes text much more legible and the 16:9 images scale quite perfectly.

As for the client, well, they were awesome! Friendly and understandable when it came to more information I needed to "fill" the website with ... yes, content. 😃

All in all, I really love how this turned out! I am looking forward to expand the website with upcoming additions!

completed on 29 November 2022

Lewfin America LLC

Our first website based in America! Lewfin contacted us to create a short term loan / personal loan website for one of their American branches. The website is quite a small one, with only 6 pages, but from a design perspective we did our best to accommodate the available content. At least now Lewfin will have a good starting point and the possibility to expand into many more pages.

completed on 11 November 2022

Deepcatch Holdings Namibia

We design and developed the Deepcatch Namibia Holdings website and with it came a complex interlinking concept where the client will be maintaining all the news and contact details from one website. Deepcatch Namibia Holdings consists of numerous companies spread over 5 divisions which in return will become a nightmare to maintain all the news and contact details throughout all the websites, which is why we prepared the Deepcatch Namibia Holdings website to act as a hub for all the other websites. Traditionally the client would need to log into each and every CMS to change the contact details and maintaining their news, but with this interlinking they will only need to do this once. We are looking forward to the next project with Deepcatch Namibia Holdings.

completed on 17 August 2022

Namibia National Olympic Committee

We feel honored that we have been the chosen website design and development company to revamp the Namibia National Olympic Committee website. I must say this was a fun one, since we used CSS trickery to give elements a skew edge instead of the usual horizontal straight lines. The original Olympic chains also gave us a few playful colors we applied all over the website.

completed on 11 May 2022

Saager Aircool CC

This is a website for Saager Aircool CC, a HVAC system provider in Namibia. The website is a static website execution, meaning that we only developed the front-end without a content management system which allows the customer to maintain their website. The content management system will most likely be implemented at a later stage, but right now this is more than enough for the client.

We also implemented our first snow effect within the banner of the website. This is something quite unusual for a Namibian website, since it rarely snows in Namibia, but completely relevant to the air conditioning industry

completed on 30 March 2022

Copper & Coal Distillery Namibia

If you are 18 and above and you love Namibian Crafted Gins and Vodkas then you should take a moment and have a gander at our latest website ... and its products, obviously!

This site comes with a fully functional shopping cart that allows you to set up an order with Copper & Coal Distillery Namibia, no matter if you are an Individual or a Supplier. The shopping cart will magically calculate the discounts on certain items if they are bought in bulk, well, its not really magic, its just developer mastery... But I digress - the website also has a membership based service called the Copper Craft Club where you receive beautifully packaged and branded gift baskets of Namibian products every 2 months. On top of that they also have services such as online application forms for Gift Vouchers, Loyalty Cards, Corporate Gifts ... etc.

If you are an esteemed website designer, then there are some design elements worth checking out - especially the vertical lines that connect the headers of the content with the end of the content (if that makes sense), also the randomly generated gallery images that tease the visitor with a fresh set of 10 images every time the page is reloaded or changed and last but not least the subtle watermark images behind most headings that are also randomly generated.
What can I say, I'm proud of my Asylum team in rehabilitating yet another website!

completed on 05 May 2021

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.

completed on 30 October 2020

Aucor Online Auctions

Front-end development for the online auctions of Aucor Namibia. For this project we went through all possible auction websites around the globe and combined the most important features with additional value added and user friendly add-ons which make it easy to keep track of your auctions and as well as lot items. One of the best features is, that you can search for items with certain tags ... i.e. if you are looking for a fridge, you can look for all fridges within all auctions at the same time and then take it from there. Sadly this front-end has not been integrated with the back-end, but I am sure it will be soon!

completed on 10 June 2020

Pointbreak Wealth Management

In May 2020, Pointbreak asked us to develop front end designs and development for their Wealth Management platform. This custom responsive design was supposed to be a desktop and mobile friendly way of managing one's investment portfolios as well as some other value added functionality. It included statements, performance, tax certificates, investment history, transactions, login-history, profile information, contact details and a cloud based filing system which allows you to upload all your important documentation - i.e. wills, IDs, insurance policies ... etc.

completed on 28 May 2020

Central Technical Supplies

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!

completed on 01 April 2020

Jan Gey Nissan

Jan Gey Nissan is a Nissan dealership in Otjivarongo for who we design and developed a new vehicle as well as used vehicle website. The design is extremely clean with a care and the custom functionality includes service bookings and finding clients a vehicle, with which they can leave their details and have the dealership get back to them the moment they have the exact vehicle or something relevant available.

completed on 01 March 2020

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.

completed on 01 November 2019

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.

completed on 07 October 2019

FCS Namibia

Once again we have outdone ourselves with the website of FCS - Financial Consulting Services. Apart from all the usual magic, we added features such as, getting detailed information on the training courses happening at FCS in Windhoek, Swakopmund and Walvis bay and getting all the documentation online required for booking your course!

A conference room booking system that allows the visitor to book a conference room, in Windhoek, Swakopmund, and Walvis Bay for a specific date and for up to 30 people, from the comfort of his lounge chair at home. The website administrator automatically gets an email notification that there was a booking made. If the booking does not conflict with another, its just a press of a button to approve the booking and notify the visitor. There is also a calendar that shows the admin how the week / month according to bookings.
Calculators! If you like online calculators that calculate your Income TAX, Payments, Capital, Repayment Period, Estimated Bond Registration Fee, Transfer Duties, Sale Member Interest, Stamp Duties, then this is the site of your dreams!

And if that wasn't enough, there is a client rating page where the client can rate FCS with up to 6 stars! I'm telling you, 5 stars are old school!

completed on 25 September 2019

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.

completed on 12 June 2019

Melbic Car Rentals, Transfers & Tours

Where do I start?! Melbic Car Rentals has been with us for ages, and I would dare saying that they are one of the technologically advanced companies when it comes to their website. Apart from just their they have an automated quote and booking system we developed that allows the agents to get costing in their own time / timezone. These quotes automatically adjust the pricing according to high or low season rates and can be converted into fixed bookings. The fixed bookings allows them to keep track of the availability of their fleet, incoming funds, automating notifications, ... etc. A helpful tool for the agents!

completed on 04 February 2019

Journeys Namibia

Journeys Namibia has quite a unique set up - all their lodge's websites are interlinked with one another and share information, such as itineraries, activities, news and specials. This makes updating the information quite easy - they only update the information on the Journeys Namibia website and all the other websites are automatically updated. We didn't just redevelop their website, also developed a virtual tour software for them. The virtual software can be found here: Virtual Tour.

completed on 12 December 2018

Ellis & Partners

Ellis and Partners Legal Practitioners was our first legal website. Clean, simple and straight to the point. The attorney profiles are translated into 4 different languages - English, Spanish, German and Chinese.

completed on 22 November 2018

Otjiwa Lodge

One of our highest performing tourism / lodge websites we have developed to that date! With about 400 page views and one or more call to actions (enquiry form entries) a day, this website is quite a busy one! Apart from its performance it sure is one absolutely gorgeous website!

completed on 15 November 2018

Shipwreck Lodge

completed on 27 July 2018

BankMed Namibia

completed on 16 July 2018

Nampost

completed on 28 June 2018

NIPAM

completed on 12 December 2017

Kosmos 94.1

completed on 03 November 2017

NMC

completed on 03 August 2017

Agribank

completed on 18 November 2016

Namib Film

One of our older yet beautiful sites we design and developed for Namib Films. Namib Film is a film production and location services company in Namibia. The combination of desert and content gives a great feel of the versatile locations Namib Films has to offer for their clients. Have a look at their locations and work to see what they update themselves via our content management system. I really like what we did here!

completed on 17 August 2016

Debmarine

completed on 01 April 2016

MTC

completed on 22 January 2016

WHK Law

With the assistance of Ogilvy Namibia we designed the WHK Law website. The front end development and functionality was done by Asylum, and to this day (2023) this website has the most accurate and frequently used Bond Calculator, Transfer Cost Calculator, Sale Member Interest and Bond Repayments tools in Namibia. We have seen tons of external references and websites linking to these calculators. -no wonder, since we occasionally keep these tools up to date with new legislation etc.

completed on 07 August 2015

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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Ugab Game Farm and Lodge

Ugab Game Farm and Lodge is a newly established high end lodge with luxury accommodation in Damaraland. Their top end rooms are equipped with a personal coffee station, a fridge with ice cold water, and a massive outside shower and bathtub. The linen of the king sized double beds are made of Egyptian cotton and the rooms have a magnificent view on to the waterhole where a vast variety of animals roam and feed.

They offer lengthy Nature / Game Drives in the shadows of majestic trees growing in the Ugab river. It is near guaranteed that you will see wild animals in the Ugab river, since they prefer the lower temperatures therein. You will most likely see herds of Eland, Gemsbock and many other species unique to the farm.

Here are some photos we took at Ugab Game Farm and Lodge.

completed on 30 September 2022

Namibia National Olympic Committee Photography

Namibia National Olympic Committee board members and staff profile photography at the Hilton hotel.

completed on 06 June 2022

Barkhan Dune Retreat 2022

And another successful visit to Barkhan Dune Retreat. This time we planned a quick sunset photo shoot at the Spreetshoogte pass. The sunset was spectacular with all the little clouds filling the sky and giving the photos an additional flare! After all the good rains this year the grass was standing at hip height and has that classic golden shimmer as the sun sets.

completed on 09 May 2022

Medical Imaging

Medical Imaging requested us to take photos for every service category on their website. This was a super fun shoot, since the staff at Roman Catholic Hospital and Mediclinic are extremely friendly and photogenic. Lighting and space in the hospital is a real challenge, which is why some of the images look distorted and or the white balance is off.

Taking photos of the MRI machine was a nightmare considering if I get too close it will suck my camera into the magnetic field and damage the multi million dollar machine, or it will simply corrupt all my photos on the SD card. That was quite worrying to say the least.

We are also doing the website which is still in the works, but these photos will replace the stock photography they are currently using on their website.

completed on 31 January 2022

Teltech - Thompson’s Electronics & Technology

Teltech required a few photos for their new website and I offered to assist them with a quick visit at Lady Pohamba Hospital for a few photos.

completed on 28 September 2021

NamPower Virtual Tour

NamPower Anixas II Power Station Walvis Bay

The Coronavirus pandemic brough a lot of challenges for businesses as movement was restricted, travel was banned - thus companies could not operate businesses as usual anymore. Which is why we were contracted to create a virtual tour for NamPower which allows prospective bidders to walk around the NamPower site on which the future Anixas II power station is planned and interactively find out more about the site and Project requirements. This site is also home to the existing Anixas power station and the now decommissioned Paratus power stations.

This responsive 66 scene virtual tour walk through takes the user through all the most important areas, which are usually quite difficult to reach and or take time and planning to visit, from the comfort of their home or office. With about 30 hot-spots ranging from simple text, images, and photoshopped infographics that pop up when interacting with them, the virtual tour isn't just visually interactive, but also informative. On top of that we added custom graphics over certain areas which aided in the illustration of i.e. structures to be demolished, the passing of certain lines ... etc.

Due to the sensitivity of information we will not be able to demo or show much more than what you see here now.

completed on 30 July 2021

Tiny Planets all over Namibia

These tiny planets are made from Virtual tours from all around Namibia. Clients such as Journeys Namibia and NWR have tasked me to shoot all of their lodges so that their clientele can educate themselves on what to expect in the comfort of their own homes. Enjoy the below abstract gallery.

completed on 22 April 2021

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!

completed on 03 March 2020

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.

completed on 04 February 2020

Journeys Namibia Virtual Tours

Yet another stunning collection of resorts and lodges all over Namibia. From the beautiful Shipwreck lodge located on the untouched beaches of the Skeleton coast to the stunning Fishriver Canyon Lodge located in the desolate South of Namibia, this collection of lodges have to be one of the best there are. The dramatic and colourful sunsets are unforgettable! Quickly visit your favorite lodge with this virtual tour software and experience the incredible beauty of Namibia.

All the most important scenes are shot at dusk or dawn to capture all the natural and artificial lighting at its best. Additionally all the virtual tours are 50megapixels large and were shot in HDR to ensure the maximum detail in highlights (bright areas) and shadows (dark areas). The software is fully responsive and automatically detects the resolution of your device to avoid unwanted bandwidth consumption.

The virtual tour software runs online as well as offline, which is highly beneficial when the client showcases their product on a touch screen or laptop at an expo with limited or no internet access.

completed on 01 February 2020

Namibia Breweries Limited

completed on 01 November 2019

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.

completed on 10 September 2019

Power Line Africa

808 Media contracted us to do a quick afternoon photo-shoot of the infrastructure works at Otjihase. The company doing the infrastructure works is Power Line Africa (Pty) Ltd and they were very happy with the results.

completed on 02 September 2019

Kunene River Lodge

What must be the hottest place in Namibia, Kunene River Lodge is a must see and experience! While shooting the virtual tours for Kunene River Lodge I was asked to take photos of the lodge and its activities. This place sure is paradise and so different to other locations in Namibia!

completed on 18 January 2019

Melbic Car Rentals, Transfers & Tours

When we heard that we will be doing the Virtual Tours for NWR we needed a car that will get us all over Namibia. Melbic Car Rental was so kind to provide us with such vehicle (Toyota Hilux 2017) as long as we take photos of the vehicle. Considering that ALL sunsets and Sunrises were booked for the Virtual Tours, this is the best we could do. In addition Melbic scored a limelight spot on all campsites around our beautiful country.

completed on 01 November 2018

Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR)

This has to be the largest virtual tour software in Namibia, covering 18 Resorts and indexing them into all the different room types, activities and facilities.

The virtual tour software runs online as well as offline, which is highly beneficial when the client showcases their product on a touch screen or laptop at an expo with limited or no internet access.

completed on 01 November 2018

Barkhan Dune Retreat

Barkhan Dune Retreat is a beautiful stop between the Spreetshoogte Pass and Solitaire. We spent two weekends at Barkhan and needless to say there are endless opportunities of photography, you just need to get up early and walk down hiking trails in the dark and you will see some landscapes you have never before seen.

completed on 20 June 2018

Mowani Mountain Camp & Camp Kipwe

Here is a select few of the photos that were taken at this insanely beautiful Mowani Moutain Camp and Camp Kipwe near Twyfelfontein. The hosts and the company was excellent! This is definitely something one should experience!

completed on 22 December 2017

Gabus Game Ranch

A wonderful hunting guest farm located just 10km outside of Otavi. Friendly people, organic food from the garden and farm. When I visited Gabus I was asked to take virtual tours of the ranch. In addition I shot some landscape photos and a few additional shots they can utilize on their website.

completed on 25 May 2017

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