Shakawa Lodge

In the serenity of its idyllic lush setting, Shakawa Lodge offers the African Safari experience of a lifetime in uncompromising luxury. The website invites users to step into the spirit of Shakawa with information on the lodge, activities, the staff and their very own breeding project.

Launch Project

The Challenge

Shakawa’s Lodge combines luxury with traditional African designs.We wanted to bring elements of African design to the site layout and not just its content.

In addition to its logo, Shakawa’s identity has been long associated with the leopard and most of its literature sports the leopard throughout. It was Azexis’ challenge to incorporate the leopard into the identity of the site without compromising space.

The Solution

We composited a range of African images from Shakawa’s printed literature into the concept. In fact, all aspects of the site were taken from African influences.

The leopard was integrated into the site logo, which we animated with Flash to bring further character to the site.

Project Tools

These are some of the tools we used for the production of this project:

Launch the Shakawa Website

The Results

Shakawa took us into new territory and is now a benchmark in design for our themed sites. The new logo provides the site with a strong and unique identity, which reflects the nature of the lodge and safari holidays. You can read more about the Shakawa Lodge logo here.

From day one we wanted the site to be search engine friendly, but also to keep the rich interactivity of Flash. The result was a hybrid site encompassing both requirements.

Designed in 2005, the site still receives a great deal of attention.