Sustainable design
Situated in Cape Town, South Africa with clients globally, The Ethical Agency provides a sustainable & principled approach to eco-friendly branding, graphic design, website design, and digital marketing. Our mission is to foster long-lasting relationships with our clients, where together we leave the lightest impact on the planet whilst doing good and ethical business (environmentally sustainable design).
As a sustainable design company, with decades of experience in the business, we specialise in providing high-quality, fast turnaround design work.
Sustainable graphic design and illustration
Sustainable graphic design for print (publications, flyers, posters, packaging design), digital (infographics, website graphics) and social media (social media banners and Google ads). Our foot-print is light, and therefore your design is eco-friendly.
Sustainable website design and maintenance
Experienced WordPress website designers and developers. We provide e-commerce services and high levels of security with FREE SSL certificates. We can register your domain, host and maintain your website. We host our websites on green website hosting – websites powered by renewable energy.
Logos and branding
Logos, corporate identities, brand guidelines, and stationery. See our branding page for logos designed – one of the most fun aspects of eco-friendly design – we love bringing our client’s brand to life, let us help you with yours.
Digital marketing
Search engine optimisation (SEO), Google analytics, social media management, pay-per-click advertising, and email marketing. Content production, article writing and design of captivating banners and adverts for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google ads.
Environmentally sustainable design
Ensuring your design and marketing needs are performed sustainably with the lightest footprint on the planet, we offer renewable energy website (and email) hosting, print-free campaigns and sustainable printing. We are a carbon-zero business and offset all our electricity usage with renewable energy from Darling Wind Farm. We also employ sustainable design practices and use ethical suppliers.
Sustainable Designers – why work with us?
Better world
We truly strive towards making the world a better place for all humans and animals, for now and into the future. How do we do that? By producing world class graphic design and evironmenal sustainability practices.
Reducing our environmental impact
We are committed to reducing our environmental impact at home and at work through renewable energy and carbon neutral practices. Let us help you reduce yours!
Renewable green energy web servers
Our websites (and email) are hosted on 100% renewable energy website servers.
Sustainable design experience and expertise
We have extensive experience in our industry and offer an exceptionally high level of eco-friendly design services.
Transparency and ethics
We are committed to working with transparency and in accordance with the highest ethical standards.
We care
We truly care about wanting to help your business grow and excel, sustainably.
Ethical suppliers
We work with (and recommend) ethical suppliers where possible – for example, we help you source environmental printing or packaging solutions.
Ethical alliances
We are members of the unashamedly ethical network, as well as other alliances.
Ethical & sustainable checklist
We provide a FREE ethical checklist to all our clients to help you be more ethically and environmentally minded at home and in business.
Free sustainable marketing strategy
We offer a FREE generic marketing strategy to all of our clients.
Host your website (and email) powered by renewable energy!
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