WHAT WE ARE ABOUT


We are a brand design agency based in food and beverage, leisure and retail. We’ve been in business since 1988, which means that we have seen many changes in the type and style of agency work. We will never use meaningless creative words, propose ever-increasing project costs, provide random ill founded justifications or design on a whim.

We prefer to build relationships with clients where we are genuine partners, taking equal responsibility for the creative and commercial outcome of the project. We provide a fixed fee structure and insight to drive the creative response.

We challenge convenient truths*, we challenge the brief, we challenge traditional methods and we challenge ourselves to push the boundaries creatively and commercially. We have built an agency culture where we inspire each other to be better through honesty, integrity, partnership and personal development. 

We think of our clients as friends. We invest time in them, we don't charge to meet with them, we are pleased when they succeed and we are always around for a beer! We have client relationships that date back many years and we are both grateful and respectful of the trust that we are given.

*Convenient truths – these are made up statements that are repeated over and over again until they become ill founded facts. 



Our Creative Philosophy

We believe that the most important consideration is the client objective. Therefore, we must be integrated in our skills and disciplines. Single discipline agencies cannot solve commercial problems as they only look through one lens. Having an integrated creative approach allows us to use channels tactically to deliver the commercial outcome, every time.

No client has ever invested in a project because some designer used some fancy words and some design tricks. Instead we demystify the creative process. What naturally happens in the designer's head is laid out for the client to see in a logical design story. Our literal and lateral design inspiration and reference points are clearly used to justify the solution. The agency role is to take a lot of information and distill it into a proposition. We make it easy for the client to say yes. We do this by openly revealing the process of design and demonstrating how it links to the clients desired commercial outcome.