Silas Mentos Nangolo

Graphic Designer,
Illustrator

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Know
About me

I am a seasoned graphic designer/freelance photographer, illustrator, and UI/UX specialist with over 8 years of professional experience. My portfolio encompasses a diverse range of projects, catering to both small enterprises and prominent corporations such as the Ministry of Health and Social Services, GIZ Namibia, DW Namibia, and the National Youth Council.

My dedication lies in facilitating seamless and impactful communication for companies. I possess a particular aptitude for leveraging my expertise in Corporate Branding, Layout Design, Photography, Video Editing, and UI/UX Design to ensure messages are conveyed with utmost effectiveness.

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My
Experience

  • February 2023 - Present

    Mindsinaction STEAM

    Creative Lead

      Graphic Design and Branding:
    • Creating visually appealing and engaging designs for educational materials, promotional content, and branding materials.
    • Developing a consistent visual identity and brand guidelines for the company's various services.

      • Educational Materials Design:
    • Designing educational resources, including posters, infographics, presentations, and interactive materials, to enhance the learning experience.
    • Collaborating with educators and subject matter experts to translate complex concepts into visually understandable content.

      • Web and Digital Design:
    • Creating layouts, color schemes, and typography for the company website.
    • Ensuring a consistent visual identity across all web pages and maintaining the company's branding.

      • Print Collateral Design:
    • Designing brochures, flyers, banners, and other print materials for marketing events, workshops, and conferences.
    • Ensuring that print materials align with the company's brand and messaging.

      • User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) Design:
    • Designing intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for educational software, applications, and interactive tools.
    • Creating responsive UI designs that adjust gracefully to different screen orientations and sizes, optimizing the user experience across smartphones and tablets.

      • Collaboration and Communication:
    • Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including educators, engineers, and Software Engineers, to translate ideas into compelling visual designs.
    • Communicating design concepts effectively to stakeholders, clients, and team members.

      • Project Management:
    • Managing design projects from concept to completion, including planning, timelines, and resource allocation.

  • August 2021 - September 2022

    Ministry of Health & Social Services | Directorate of Special Programes (DSP)

    Contracted Graphic Designer

    Namibian Adolescent Treatment Supporters (NATS) program & Menstar HIV campaign

    • Developing concepts, graphics, illustrations and layouts, including making decisions about fonts, images, readability and readers' needs.
    • Amend designs after feedback.
    • Working with healthcare workers and copywriters to produce final design.
    • Ensuring final graphics and layouts are visually appealing and on-brand.

  • October 2021 - June 2022

    GIZ Namibia | Sport for Development in Africa (S4DA) Regional Project

    Contacted Graphic Designer

    Milli Sports 4 Development Drill Book & Integrated Physical Education and School Sports (IPESS) Policy Book Layout

    • Preparing rough drafts of material based on agreed brief.
    • Keeping clients up to date, listening to and acting on feedback, and explaining the rationale behind graphic design decisions.
    • Reviewing final layouts and suggesting improvements when required.

  • August 2020 - February 2021

    Luis Munana Production | Waka Waka Moo

    Illustrator & Graphic Designer

    • Combining hand-drawing and painting with digital media to create complete illustrations for the kids show.
    • Refining all character designs.
    • Brainstorm with the design team to come up with new ideas, patterns and styles.
    • Conceptualizing & developing graphics, social media assets, artworks for branding and print media.

  • June 2019 - April 2020

    Media & Information Literacy Learning Initative (MiLLi)

    Contacted Graphic Designer

    • Designing content to be posted online.
    • Animating short graphics and videos for various media.

  • 2019

    National Youth Council

    Media Student Volunteer

    National Youth Week (Kamanjab) 2019 & SADC Youth Ministers Meeting 2019

    • Collaborating with journalists and photographers to design newsletter layouts.
    • Reviewing final layouts and suggesting improvements when required.
    • Designing banners and other print material for the events.

  • 2017

    Wanderzone IT & Printing

    Junior Graphic Designer

    • Producing logos, banners, and interfaces.
    • Pitching creative concepts.
    • Collaborating with the team to launch projects.
    • Using feedback from other designers to improve.

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My
Projects

Integrated Physical Education and School Sports (IPESS) Policy

About The Project

The Integrated Physical Education and School Sports (IPESS) and a national Steering Committee with all relevant local stakeholders has been set up to steer the implementation.

In order to strengthen the implementation of IPESS, a national policy on Integrated Physical Education and School Sports and associated implementation guidelines to align PE and school sports with emerging trends and best global practices have been developed.

My Role

My role was to design the policy in such a way that the content was presented in a neat, easy-to-grasp, and attractive way. The policy was designed in a way that was well structured and tailored to the needs of the target group (official government officers, principals, educators).







Media and Information Litarcy Through Media, Sports and Play | Drill Book For Facilitators

About The Project

MiLLi* is an organization that was founded in 2016, as part of the Media department of the College of the Arts in Windhoek, Namibia. Since 2018 it has become an independently registered Trust. Its main goal is to foster Media and Information Literacy in Namibia and beyond, through a programmed that combines capacity building in education and training in MIL on different levels with an established nation-wide network of MIL youth facilitators, youth development organizations and other stakeholders.

MiLLI will use the Sport4Development method to teach their content in a fun and innovative way. Therefore, a drill book was developed with the support of S4DA Namibia for their multipliers to conduct Sport4Deveopment sessions.

My Role

My role was to develop and create instructional illustrations for the training manual. In addition, the design of the manual was to be gender-specific and inclusive, including persons with disabilities in graphs and illustrations for the purposes of the target group.










DW Akademie (Namibia) | Media Information Literacy Content Hub

Scope of Work

Media Information Literacy Content Hub is a project implemented through DW Akademie. I was tasked to conceptualize and design the logo graphic & a set of 100 customized icons for the joint website of Media Information Literacy Learning Initiative (MiLLi*), National Institute for Educational Development (NIED), The Hub Lesotho, Bloggers of Zambia, Media Monitoring Africa, National Institute for Civic Education (NICE) Malawi, Cybersmart Botswana, Web Rangers South Africa, MISA Zimbabwe, and Namibia Media Trust (NMT).

Please follow the link below to view the website.

MILContentHub.com







MoHSS | Information Sheets for Namibia Adolescents Treatment Supporters (NATs)

About The Project

The Namibia Adolescent Treatment Supporters is a facilitation of community-based adherence monitoring, counseling, and psychosocial support for Children, Adolescents, and Young People Living With HIV in Namibia. NATs runs under the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS).

My Role

My role was to collaborate with nurses, doctors, and health care workers in the development of fact sheets that will be used by NATs community workers to inform their clients about AntiRetrovial Therapy (ART) and other health-related subjects.







MoHSS | Menstar Campaign Branding

About The Project

The MenStar initiative is focused on reaching men where they are through a client-centered approach. It utilizes a new client-centric approach of leveraging human centered design (HCD) to listen to clients (identify insights and underlying barriers) and adapt HIV treatment services to meet their needs.

The overall goal of the MenStar approach is to optimize testing to reach men where they are, implementing facility-based changes to make service delivery more male friendly, helping to decongest facilities by offering convenient pick-up points for drugs for stable patients, and accelerating use of best-in-class new drug regimens to increase adherence.

My Role

My role was to design the official logo identity and create social media and print graphics for the marketing around the campaign.







Zuriel By Luis Munana

About The Project

Zuriel is a clothing line created by the famous Namibian model & enterprenue Luis Munana. Zuriel is meant to be an exclusive luxurious men’s and women’s clothing and accessories brand. He is the creative director of this new clothing line and the products are as stylish as they can be.

My Role

I was commissioned to design the printing patterns for his new collection that has been on display at the MTC Windhoek Fashion Week since 2020.







Standard Bank | Waka Waka Moo Newspaper Advert

About The Project

Standard Bank Namibia in collaboration with Waka Waka Moo (A children’s television programme in Namibia, which broadcasts on Namibian Broadcasting Corporation, the show debuted in 2018 following three years of development) has hosted a competition for the learners all over Namibia.

The competition consists of learners from the age of 5-12 years countrywide to design a piggy bank by using their creativity.

My Role

My role was to design three newspaper advertisements aimed at young learners which were printed in national newspapers (The Namibian, New Era, Republikein and The Sun Newspaper).







Video Editing & Motion Design

A video overview gives your audience an understanding of what makes your brand unique. Highlighting your business’s strengths can help you stand out in a sea of similar products and services.

And using video to leverage what sets you apart create brand awareness within your local community more effectively than static images or written content.









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Contact Me

Mobile Number

+264 81 822 9489

Email

silasmentos@yahoo.com

Social Network

www.000webhost.com