Founded by an art director and an entrepreneurial business leader, we reveal and manifest the core truth of your brand promise, through gorgeous creative, layered storytelling, and enriching experiences, to create genuine customer love for what you do.
We specialise in brand strategy and creative design, empowering deep customer engagement through emotive storytelling, to build passionately loyal and evangelical tribes.
Great brands make a promise to their customers of a more enriching life, through the shared pursuit of an inspiring higher purpose.
As partners in our very human drive to be more tomorrow than we are today, to live our very best life, great brands help us create and convey self-identity, and ultimately become a core component of how we express who we are to the world.
This is the very definition of a true ‘lifestyle brand’.
We work together with our clients to clearly articulate and compellingly convey brand promise, designing the strategy, creative assets and layered storytelling to create and nourish a deeply emotional connection with customers.
Why? Simply put – great brands, true lifestyle brands, significantly outperform their competitors.
Every consumer category is dominated by commodity brands, even more so today with universal access to multiple global marketplace platforms. Commodity brands typically compete aggressively and relentlessly on physical features and benefits, price and promotion.
However, every consumer category also has a small number of true lifestyle brands that sit atop the pyramid, defining the true potential of the category and aspiration of the customer. These lifestyle brands enjoy more stable positioning, greater price elasticity and gross margin, and significantly higher valuation multiples.
Additionally, and critically for the modern marketplace, these best in class brands can achieve profitability on a lower scale, and enjoy customer trust and permission for progressive category expansion, line extensions, licensing, and Partnerships. Accordingly, they become prime acquisition targets for market incumbents seeking to reinvigorate consumer passion and revenue growth.
Ultimately our mission is to provide brand owners with a highly differentiated and defensible brand promise, positioning, and creative asset set, directing consistent customer experiences across all touchpoints, and elevating the relationship to nourish trust, loyalty and passionate word of mouth.
Josh has a track record of transformational brand leadership and value creation, in Australia, the USA and Japan.
He has specialised in supporting innovative founders and executive teams in successfully navigating periods of extreme challenge and opportunity, including start-up and early-stage growth, restructuring and repositioning, capital raising and exit events. Committed to actualising a brands ‘why’, emotionally engaging the customer to create genuine brand love, and leveraging that relationship to progressively extend the scope and scale of the offer, he particularly enjoys the productive tension of balancing creative and commercial priorities.
His career includes tenured roles as CEO of sass & bide, Thom Browne New York, and THR1VE, and Executive Director of Anthropologie eCommerce, and extended advisory and consultancy roles with M.J.Bale, Just Group, and Gazal Corporation. Additionally, Josh has been engaged on a project basis for clients as Expedia.com, Creative Artists Agency and HL Group.
Steph is fiercely creative, she is a problem-solver with a fast mind and a big heart. Specialising in graphic design, photography and brand story-telling, she has just as much experience behind a screen as she has with creative direction, and helping brands reach their ultimate goal. Steph is a true creative at heart, with skills in the full Adobe suite, photography and editing, video & production, social media management, marketing, brand & brand story-telling, website design & production as well as a personal flare for lifestyle & design.
With a Bachelor in Graphic Arts & Communication, Steph begun her career in Australia at 19 years old with Australian fast-fashion giant SUPRÉ, to later move in to the world of freelancing with focus on storytelling and disruption for premium Australian fashion houses. She has experience as an in-house creative through everything from a start-up environment to big agencies alike, and is always up for a creative challenge.
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