We were approached by Florey Neuroscience Institutes to promote a joint venture taken on by the group which was the construction of two new purpose-built state-of-the-art facilities worth $225 million. As part of the project,
the Mental Health Research Institute and University of Melbourne neuroscientists co-located with
Florey Neuroscience Institutes to the new facilities at the University’s Parkville campus and at the Austin Hospital in Heidelberg.
We were approached by Florey Neuroscience Institutesto design their 2008 Annual Report. With a brief to update existing brand visual language, we developed a new brand look and feel that is scientific, professional and bold, that would be eventually rolled out through other FNI brand communications.
The Story of the Truly Deeply brand identity It was shortly after the relationship between Storm and BrandDNA was made official that we made the decision. A decision we felt we would recommend to any client in a similar position. Stop wasting energy supporting two brands and focus your resources on one. It wasn’t that there was problems with the old brands, we loved them, and still do. It was that we had a new offer, that couldn’t be successfully represented by one or the other. So nearly three years ago, on a planning weekend down the Mornington Peninsula, we made the choice. It was time for Storm and BrandDNA to fade away and be replaced by a brand that truly represented the new brand design ethos of the new company.
Branding a place or a region is no different to product or service branding – you have to own something that is distinctive and compelling to your target market. However, when it comes to regional branding there is an added complication. You have to balance the competing needs of a diverse set of stakeholders because the people and businesses that make up the region simply do not always see the world through the same lens. Different mental models, different types and sizes of businesses, different levels of self interest and all that before one even layers in the different egos at play. A lot of stakeholders and lot of emotion makes for interesting branding.
Jane the Agency is a new brand of agency that takes a holistic approach to advertising. Jane are passionate about what they do and aim to nurture and inspire brands beyond their comfort zone, using both traditional and non-traditional mediums to form a deeper, more meaningful conversation with consumers.
We worked with Jane to create a visual identity that would sit comfortably within the visual language of the advertising industry, but that would at the same time stand apart and would attract like minded creative individuals and clients. Founded by Daniel Pollock, former creative director of one the top twenty creative agencies in Asia Pacific and co creator of iconic fashion website Michi Girl,Jane has a clear and playful brand personality which we have layered throughout all design and communication pieces. Shown below are examples of the business card, website and postcards design.
We’ve recently been working with Australia’s leading specialist Gen Y recruitment brand. We provided GXY Search absolute clarity around their market proposition and layers of brand definition to allow them to align and focus their brand and business activities. As it often does, this new-found clarity of the brand led to a brief to update the GXY brand identity.
From sport to fashion, lifestyle to advertising GXY’s clients all boast ‘excitement jobs’ – the type of jobs many Gen Yers dream about. One of the defining attributes of Gen Y is they see themselves as distinct individuals who belong to a range of overlapping tribes. GXY genuinely has a right to lead those tribes as it is authentically Gen Y itself, from the way it thinks to how it behaves and where it parties, GXYis Gen Y through and through. The brand identity we designed for GXY was a reflection of their own status within the Gen Y tribes they belong to. The brand identity concept was developed through our creative brand design process. The brand identity developed was applied to business stationery, interior design and website.
A New Model of Talent Management Forum5 represents the next generation of artist and talent management company founded by Mark Richardson in collaboration with global media company; Fremantle Media. Mark’s background was in running some of the biggest record labels in the world, representing many of the biggest names in music internationally. Mark’s vision for Forum5, was a new kind of talent management based on the understanding that in the age of shared and social technology, the talent creating the content holds the power, and the ideal management relationship is an entrepreneurial partnership. With Fremantle Media’s backing, Forum5 was launched in 2008 and has found much success with the new model of talent partnership, quickly growing to represent local talent from the television, music, food and lifestyle industries.
For four decadesMcAthur has forged an enviable reputation as a multi-specialist National recruitment company focusing on executive, permanent, temporary and consulting solutions for clients. As a 40 year-old business undergoing generational change, the time was right to re-frame the McArthur brand, its go-to-market proposition and its brand image.
McArthur as a business had evolved organically as had its brand visual language. The re-branding program was as much about creating a spirited and contemporary visual language as it was about developing systems to ensure a consistent and organised message unifying state offices and consolidating unified brand communication to the market.
SAGE started life as a two man electrical engineering company in 1994, when we met them they had grown to an Automation specialist with over 200 employees, a list of Australia’s blue chip clients, a turnover of $40 million and a truly national presence. The only issue was they had truly outgrown their current brand, both strategically and stylistically.
Rogerseller is a luxury, premium interior product design company. In has been in business for over 100 years and is the leader in beautiful and innovative products for bathrooms and kitchens.
With new competition in the market Rogerseller wished to re-establish a differentiated position for their brand. We were engaged to direct them in the definition of their brand proposition, brand essence and values. Once defined we created this A3-sized brand book to translate the outcomes of the brand work for their staff who are responsible for bringing the Rogerseller brand to life ever day.
