In a recent blog on the premium nature of artisan food brands we spoke about our great friend and client Lester Marshall from the Coffin Bay Oyster Farm. Lester is a truly interesting character. Two years ago he was a passionate Oyster Farmer in the majestic waters of Coffin Bay, near Port Lincoln, South Australia. Today he is an astute master of branding. He has had a paradigm shift that is transforming his business. He has set in play a strategy that is moving his business from simply selling his succulent oysters unbranded in hessian bags to one that markets a portfolio of premium branded oysters. His awakening to the power of branding has also seen him become an inspirational speaker and educator on how to build premium regional food brands.
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135° Degrees Brand Identity Design

135° Degrees is a luxury property investment group, marketed to high wealth individuals in Australia and ex-pats in the Asia Pacific region. 135° Degrees owns ultra luxurious holiday homes in the most exotic locations around the world. With properties in Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand, members could experience a range of extraordinary experiences ranging from skiing slopes in the island of Hokkaido (Japan), through to relaxing at Singh Beach (west coast of Phuket) surrounded by the majestic Andaman Sea. The 135° Degrees experience provides the services of a luxury hotel, the exclusivity of private villa rentals and the equity benefits of second home ownership. The 135° Degrees proposition is ‘A life balance investment’.
Acrux Annual Report Design 2009
A Year of Delivering Value
We’ve been partnering with Acrux (a specialty pharmaceutical company based in Australia) to design their corporate communications since 2002 when we first worked with them on the prospectus. As one of the sectors glowing success stories, Acrux has built a reputation for meeting milestones each and every year from start-up phase through to their current commercialization phase.
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.
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.
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.
ANZ Bank Brand Card Design
ANZ Bank
ANZ Bank is a bank that is committed to building lasting partnerships with their customers, shareholders and communities throughout Australia, New Zealand and 26 key markets in the Asia Pacific region. Always ahead of the pack, ANZ has an stern reputation for being one of Australia’s leading banks.
Five Flavours of Brand Personality
We often talk about the role of design in expressing different personalities for a brand. We work in the space every day, but rarely get the opportunity to explore the expression of multiple brand personalities for the one product type. We decided it was time to walk the talk and set ourselves a challenge; to develop five unique, integrated packaging strategies based upon an identical product – a range of (very delicious) natural fruit cordials.








