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Span House, Portal Avenue, Kampala +256 772-233-050

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Lead With Authority ...

Your audience decides in under three seconds. Before the proposal. Before the meeting. Before a single word is spoken — your brand has already made the case for you, or against you. We build brand identities, websites, and visual systems that communicate authority, evoke trust, and move the decision-makers that matter — across Uganda and East Africa.

If your brand isn't working as hard as you are — that changes today.

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About US

Your audience forms an opinion about your organisation in under three seconds. Before a proposal is read. Before a meeting is scheduled. Before a single word is spoken — perception is already set. The organisations that command trust before the conversation begins aren't lucky. They're designed.

Panda Studios is East Africa's brand identity and creative agency for organisations that cannot afford to be misread. From Kampala's most established institutions to growth-stage companies building regional scale, we build the visual systems behind names that lead — not follow. Every identity, website and campaign is built for one outcome: to make your organisation the undisputed, trusted choice in the minds of the people whose decisions matter most.

Deryk Lubega, Founder, Panda Studios
Design is not decoration. It is the language your organisation speaks before you do.
— Deryk Lubega, Founder, Panda Studios
Panda Studios creative team at work in Kampala, Uganda

The Team

We are not generalists. Every person on this team is a specialist — in brand identity, visual communication, web design and strategic creative direction. We work exclusively with organisations that want to lead, not follow.

What sets us apart in East Africa's design landscape is not just craft — it's the depth of thinking that goes into every brief. We ask harder questions, go further into your business reality, and build brand solutions that hold their authority for years, not months.

Brands that lead tomorrow,
are built today.

Deryk Lubega, Founder and Creative Director at Panda Studios
Deryk Lubega
Spencer Senyama, Frontend Developer at Panda Studios
Spencer Senyama

* The founders of our agency

Bella Nakigozi, Designer at Panda Studios
Bella Nakigozi
Jonathan K., UI/UX Designer at Panda Studios
Jonathan K.
What some of our customers
say about us.

Customer Voices:
Here's What They Say!

Jim Kibonera

Encehar Travel

Honestly, we were losing bookings to operators who weren’t better than us. They just looked it. That’s a hard thing to admit about your own company. Panda fixed how we show up, and a few months later we were getting replies from partners who’d ignored us for years.

Jonathan Ahabyona

Tourism PowerHouse

They got the brief in one meeting. We’d spent months explaining it to other people. And what came back was something our team could actually use day to day, not just a nice PDF that sits in a folder. Everyone stopped inventing their own version of the logo, which was half our problem.

Joel Mungai

ISBAT University

We asked for a new website. What we got first was a much harder conversation about how the university actually looks online, and they were right to push it. Admissions takes far fewer basic phone calls now. That tells me it’s working.

Peace Kabatangare

MTN

Working inside MTN’s global guidelines is not fun. Most agencies either ignore them or hide behind them. This team worked within them and still made something that felt Ugandan. They hit the deadline too, which I’d honestly stopped expecting from anyone.

Brian Ahereza

GO-Explore

We came in wanting a logo. They kept asking questions we couldn’t answer, which was irritating at the time and obviously the whole point. What we walked away with says more about who we are in one look than our old brochure managed in twelve pages.

Paul Zaake

Agrishare Uganda

Six weeks to the event and a lot of moving parts. Signage, decks, social, all of it. Everything arrived on time and everything matched, which sounds like a low bar until you’ve worked with people who can’t clear it.

GO Explore Safaris logo
Uganda Wildlife Authority logo
Equity Bank logo
Tenge C logo
Afripads logo
Tourism PowerHouse logo
Hotana Safaris logo
AgriShare logo
Uganda Airlines logo
MTN Uganda logo
Wildlife Journeys logo
Uganda Tourism Board logo
C-Care logo
TotalEnergies Uganda logo