Design that has to work at eighty kilometres an hour.
Logos, signage artwork and print for South Coast businesses, built to be legible from a ute, a boat ramp and a footpath in a southerly.
Most people meet your brand while moving.
On this coast an enormous amount of first contact happens at speed. A trailer on the highway. A sign on the approach into town. A wrapped ute parked outside a job three streets from someone who needs the same thing done. A frame on the footpath outside a main street shop that half the traffic is walking past on the way somewhere else.
Design that works on a screen and falls apart at distance is the most common problem we are handed. Too many words, a mark that turns to mud at ten metres, a phone number in a weight nobody can read at speed. We design for the size it will actually be seen at, then check it at that size, which sounds obvious and is skipped constantly.
The jobs that come through the door.
Logos, and the identity around them
From a single clean mark to a full kit with colours, fonts and rules anybody can follow without ringing us.
Logo rescues
Your existing mark redrawn into proper vector artwork, because no signwriter can work from a photo of a business card.
Vehicle, trailer and vessel artwork
Set up to your installer's template and correct at full size the first time, not resized and hoped for.
Menus, price lists and take-home brochures
For cafes, tour desks, salons and counters, designed to be picked up and kept rather than binned at the door.
Market, event and festival kits
Banners, A-frames and flyers for the markets and events that fill the coastal calendar.
Business cards, letterheads and the rest of the stationery
Still one of the most requested jobs, and one of the few pieces of print that people keep in a wallet for a year.
Files are only half the job.
We supply artwork the way local printers and signwriters actually need it, or manage the whole run through production partners we use ourselves. Either way, what arrives matches what you approved, and if it does not, there is one person to ring about it.
Design questions from counters and cabs.
The ones we get asked while somebody is holding an old business card.
Do we have to start the branding again?+
No, and usually you should not. We can tidy and extend an existing identity, get you proper files and consistent colours, without making you rebrand a business people already recognise.
What does a logo cost?+
It depends on whether you need one clean mark or a full identity with guidelines, and redrawing an existing logo into vector costs less than either. All of it is fixed-quoted before we start, so you never get an invoice you did not expect.
Which files do we actually get?+
Everything. Vector masters for print and signage, web versions, favicons, social sizes, and a simple sheet showing which file goes where. You should never have to email us for the good version, although you always can.
Will the signage and the website match?+
They will, because the same people do both, and it is the cheapest way for a small business to look bigger than it is. Colours, type and tone carry from the ute to the shopfront to the site to the invoice.
The other seven, and why one supplier holds all of them.
The rest of what we look after, on the same number and the same invoice.
The quote is free, fixed in writing and yours to sit on. Nobody here will ring you every Tuesday about it.