We didn't build Unitic
just for ourselves.
Unitic is our family’s dream, but it belongs to the creative community. We are not just building a studio, we are building futures. We are incredibly proud to be a host employer and to play a role in the professional journeys of exceptional young people.
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When Isolathe and I started Unitic Creative Studio in 2023, we sat across from each other, two people with a shared name, a shared dream, and a blank page in front of us. We were building something from nothing. And the question we kept coming back to wasn’t how do we grow? It was who do we bring with us when we do? That question has stayed with us through every brief, every late night, every milestone. And in March 2026, we found one of our most meaningful answers to it.
Unitic Creative Studio is now a proud Host Employer in a funded internship programme under MICSETA, in partnership with Masifunde Community Development as our accredited training provider. We welcomed four graduating creatives from CPUT class of 2025 through our doors. Four young South Africans who worked for years to earn their qualifications, and who were now facing the hardest wall of all: the gap between having a degree and getting the chance to use it.
We know that wall. Many of us have stood in front of it. And if we have a studio with the capacity to help someone through it, then we have a responsibility to do exactly that.
What has moved us most since March is not the paperwork, the partnership agreements, or even the pride of being a host employer, though we are genuinely proud. What has moved us is listening to them speak about why they came, what they are chasing, and who they want to become.
We asked them to tell us in their own words. Here is what they said.
"I am fresh out of university, which makes it difficult to find work because I lack experience. I saw the internship as a good opportunity to improve my skills by working under a skilled, experienced designer. In five years, I want to be a designer that companies can rely on and trust. I have always enjoyed assisting my peers — I would like to lead and nurture the skills of new designers, and help prepare them for the corporate world, similar to what this internship is doing for me."
I joined because I thought it would help me improve my design knowledge and allow me to expand my skill set, as well as build real work experience. In five years I hope to be a junior-to-mid level designer — hopefully at Unitic — with a strong and versatile portfolio behind me. Unitic has given me the ideal corporate experience in terms of atmosphere and learning opportunities.
I decided to join to gain valuable insight into the design industry and its many intricate processes and day-to-day challenges. My dream is to one day own my own design studio. My goal is to give back to my community by training and sharpening graphic design graduates' skills as interns at my own future studio. I see myself being a founder of a design studio and apparel brand in the next five years. This programme will help me achieve that future.
Joining this programme became of great interest knowing I would gain experience in my field of study. With my previous Work Integrated Learning, it felt like it was not enough — just six months. With my curiosity and eagerness, I have been on the lookout ever since. I want to become an experienced Software Developer specialising in front end, back end, and all angles of development. I would also like to gain more skills in Multimedia Design — fields I know are all related.
Reading their words, we felt the weight of this responsibility clearly: these are not just interns. They are people with blueprints for their futures. And for twelve months, we are part of those blueprints. We do not take that lightly. We take it as the most serious work we do.
Unitic is a family business in the truest sense founded by a husband and wife, held together by shared values. But it was never meant to stay within the family. If we have learned anything in three years of building this studio, it is that real growth is not measured in what you accumulate. It is measured in what you make possible for others.
This internship — this partnership with MICSETA and Masifunde Community Development, and with four remarkable young people from CPUT is the most concrete expression of that belief we have made so far. It is a contribution to economic growth, yes. To job creation, yes. To work-integrated learning, yes. But more than any of that, it is a contribution to individuals who deserve the chance to become everything they have described to us.
We are only three years old. We are still finding our footing, still learning, still growing. But we are growing in the right direction. And we are not growing alone.
With gratitude and intention
Anathi Mpeto & Isolathe Mpeto
Co-Founders — Unitic Creative Studio — Est. 2023
The journey is
just beginning
Unitic Creative Studio is only three years old but it is already proving that a business built with purpose can do extraordinary things. To MICSETA, Masifunde Community Development, CPUT, and our four outstanding interns: thank you for trusting us with this chapter of your story. We are honoured, and we are just getting started.