Studio JDB is a spatial and experience design practice in Durban, working across South Africa for retail brands, their agencies and the shopfitters who build for them, and for cultural and exhibition clients.

We're small on purpose. The person who scans your space is the person who designs it.

And the person who picks up the phone when the shopfitter has a question on installation morning.

How we work

1. Trace the problem. Constraints, aims, context, and a capture of the site as it actually is. You find out what you're working with before anyone spends money on a concept.

2. Model the decision. Modelling that tests time, cost and experiential cues. You see the trade-off before you commit to it.

3. Prototype and iterate. Tactile mockups and renders. You approve something you can see, not something you have to imagine.

4. Deliver with lineage. Every drawing and asset links back to its "why", held in a studio knowledge system rather than someone's inbox. Your next store starts from the last one instead of from scratch.

Tools

SketchUp with curated extensions, D5 and V-Ray, LiDAR, XGRIDS and Gaussian-splat capture, and lightweight CNC and 3D printing for fast prototypes.

And notebooks and pencils, to slow down just enough to notice.

Send us the space.

Planning a refit, a rollout or an activation? Tell us where it is, and we'll tell you what it will really take to build.