Who Are We?

Developing Agency is a collaboration company for global brands, established agencies, and creatives who already know how the machine runs. We’re not here to try fix it. We’re here to push it further.

With photography, film + narrative, copywriting, art direction, design, and creative consulting services, and a pool of collaborators that makes outsourcing resources that feel like an in-house rebellion.

Whether we’re leading a global rollout or backing a startup idea, we bring the same energy: restless, curious, disruptive.

Awards: One Club: Finalist,
ADC: Gold + Merit
D&AD Pencil: Wood Pencil

Brands/Clients: Nike Football, Nike, Nike Kids, Crates x Converse Next,
Formula-E World Championship/Sunday Times, Away, Nura & Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), MWC

We couldn’t get the whole team into the studio, so please enjoy these facial reconstruction portraits.

Mzimasi Ndzombane
Head of Narrative + Film

Attie Ndzombane
Head of Creative + Photo

Johny Sathekge
Creative Ops Manager

Thato Chosa Ché Bernardo
Creative Ops Manager

How We Work?

When the briefs pile up and the deadlines blur, we’re built for backup.

Our network of creatives can jump in to strategise, shoot, rewrite, polish, and save your weekend. We call it collaboration, you’ll call it relief.

But this is how we start, always.

Plug In

Every project starts by finding our place inside your world. Whether that is joining your creative team, collaborating with your agency, or building something from scratch.

Learn All We Can

We work across film, photo, copy, design, and creative direction, but everything starts with understanding your world, your tone, and your audience. Then we disrupt it, just enough to make people look twice.

Build The Team

We pull from a pool of collaborators — directors, photographers, writers, designers, and strategists, all handpicked for what the brief needs. Every team is custom-built, never templated.

Disrupt With Context

Decks are where good ideas go to die, so we work lean. Less talk, more testing, more making and even more curiousity. You’ll always know who you’re talking to, and who’s making the work.

Reach Out to our Department Of New Work:
NewWork@Developing.Agency

Winning Isn’t For Everyone - Nike

Never Done Playing - Nike

Formula E - Social Content

Manic Magazine - Design

XGames - Social Content

Ode To The Insane - Nike

Nura - Social Content

Story of A Thorn - Short Film

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit

ComUnity Fashion Show