Gelati Sky is a boutique, premium gelati range. The story of Gelati Sky has a strong personality driven by Gelati Sky founder Paul Scalisi’s memories of growing up in Rome, eating gelati – ‘a world where every moment seemed frozen in an amazing sensory assault and every cloud in the sky made you feel it was about to rain gelato’. We were looking for something that was strikingly unique, represented his story and would create conversation. The communication platform of ‘it’s what dreams taste like’ was derived out of the brand strategy definition for Gelati Sky conducted by Brand DNA.

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Our work with the City of Whittlesea as their brand communications design agency provided us the opportunity to work on the brand identity for their Youth program. We ran some brand image research sessions with a range of young people from across the City’s broad population base to establish a consideration set of relevant visual language to inform the project design brief. We also used the opportunity to talk about themes for possible names for the program.

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Beverley & Russell provide bespoke business mentoring and leadership coaching to CEO and senior exec. level clients across corporate Australia. The seniority of their clients are attracted by the breadth and depth of Beverley & Russell’s skill set and their ability to customize and individualise their programs. During the brand definition phase of the project we formed a brand value proposition around premium and bespoke professional services that was driven by the experience and expertise of the client and created a clearly differentiated go-to-market strategy.

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Nava Homes is a SME home building company with a proud family history. We worked with Nava tp develop their differentiated market proposition and define their brand. The Nava brand was deeply rooted in their philosophy of building homes to enjoy with the same sense and joy for life as we often associate with the Italian family lifestyle which is expressed by the Nava brand essence as ‘Italian Family Living’. We developed a brand book to help provide clarity for the organisation, that also doubled as a marketing brochure for their clients, telling the Nava family story along the way.

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Over the last decade or more we’ve worked-on a number of project with fashion label Hemisphere. Hemisphere are a fiercely independent mens label with and ‘everyday denim sub-brand – you can see some of the work we designed with them here. In 2006 we worked on some fabric designs for a range of their shirts, which became their best selling lines, and as a result decided a couple of years later to form a partnership to launch a new label of premium mens shirts featuring custom designed printed fabrics.

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Client: Brotherhood of St Laurence
Corporate communications and annual report for NGO Brotherhood of St Laurence.

Client: Hemisphere
Brand identity and packaging for mens fashion label Hemisphere.

Client: City of Stonnington
Brand identity, signage and environmental, brand architecture, corporate communications and marketing communications for city council City of Stonnington.

Client: M>Train & M>Tram
Public transport provider M>Train & M>Tram, brand identity, signage and environmental, way finding, corporate communications and marketing communications.

Client: V/Line
Public transport provider V/Line brand identity, brand strategy, signage and way finding.