Leveraging design thinking and a full-spectrum creative skillset to build cross-platform experiences that unify your brand and drive business & marketing goals.

Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), Aotearoa based. Some of the amazing people I have worked with include The Light Project, Asthma NZ, Mission Without Borders, World Freedom Network, Better Packaging Co., SUPA.energy and more. The work spans filming, brand identity, digital, and print work, utilising a strategy-first approach to integrate touch points and unify brand presence.

BrandStrategy / Workshops / Storytelling / Guidelines / AssetsDigitalUX design systems / Web design / Front-end / CRO / SocialVideoTVC / Event / Case study / Interview / Recruit / Drone / VOPhotoCorporate / Portrait / Event / ProductPrintEditorial / Collateral / Signage / PackagingMore3D animation / Character development / Illustration / Pitch decks
Asthma Awareness Week campaign film still with ambassadors at Eden Park

All the joy a little creative
direction can get you.

Case studies

Asthma New Zealand

Asthma Awareness Week campaign film still with ambassadors at Eden Park

A brand refresh, a complete website rebuild the team can run themselves, and New Zealand’s first-ever Asthma Awareness Week campaign filmed at Eden Park with a star favourites Ardie and Julian Savea.

Video & ProductionBrandWeb
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SUPA energy

SUPA energy case study film still from the Ōropi School solar install

A creative partnership across funding, storytelling, digital and campaign support, from Webflow builds and investor decks to case study films and photography.

Video & ProductionBrandWebPitch deckPhotographyIllustration
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World Freedom Network

World Freedom Network brand reveal animation still

A brand refresh and full website rebuild for the global anti-trafficking organisation’s repositioning and soft launch at a United Nations conference in New York.

BrandPrintWebSignage
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Mukti Mission

The Mukti New Zealand website

A vibrant site giving life to Mukti New Zealand’s mission work, designed for supporters, with giving and sponsorship gateways.

BrandPrintWeb
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The Way of the Raukura

Poster still from The Way of the Raukura, a young performer backlit in a top hat

A full spectrum of creative services supporting a retelling of the Parihaka invasion over two seasons, including at Auckland's Bruce Mason Centre.

VideoPrintBrandWebSignagePhotography
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Mission Without Borders

Mission Without Borders annual magazine cover

An on-brand, off-set printed annual magazine, from research and content strategy to design and copy direction, creating an asset that could be worked with for future editions and used adapted by the Australian team.

Art directionPrintStrategy
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Tectonus

The Tectonus team walking the Yealands winery tanks in branded hi-vis

Projects spanning a Blenheim winery shoot, behind-the-scenes with the team at their Penrose workshop, and a comprehensive Megaguide catalogue.

Art directionPrintPhotographyVideo3D illustration
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Tearfund

The Tearfund Ethical Fashion Guide

Designed the first-ever Ethical Fashion Guide with the team at Tearfund NZ, from print collateral to an interactive mobile-first guide.

PrintDigitalData visualisation
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Big Bloom

Everyone cheering Big Bloom at the close of the hackathon film

Four fast pace 2 day hackathons, four charities. Design thinking, pitch decks and presentation support inside the teams (several wins among them), plus the official event film.

Video & ProductionDesign
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The toolkit · Te kete

Empathise and define.

He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.

What is the most important thing in the world? It is people, it is people, it is people.

Stakeholder interviews, workshops and a proper empathy round open the brief right up. Then we define what success is measured by.

See it, feel it.

Mā te rongo, ka mōhio; mā te mōhio, ka mārama; mā te mārama, ka mātau; mā te mātau, ka ora.

Through perceiving comes knowing, through knowing comes understanding, through understanding comes wisdom, through wisdom comes wellbeing.

Quick prototypes you can see and feel, tested with real people. We commit to the direction the evidence backs.

Build for adoption.

Nā tō rourou, nā taku rourou ka ora ai te iwi.

With your basket and my basket, the people will thrive.

The right tools for the job, integrated with what you already run, and made to feel familiar from day one. Training included, so your team owns it.

Deliver, breathe, optimise.

Whāia te iti kahurangi; ki te tūohu koe, me he maunga teitei.

Pursue that which is precious; if you must bow, let it be to a lofty mountain.

Launch, then a breath while it beds in. Conversion rate optimisation and continuous discovery keep it earning and evolving. Some clients have stayed a decade.

Your next project

Four things make it work.

Be trusted.

A brand that holds together, with film and photography that make you look as real as you are.

BrandVideo & photoIdentity systems

Bring people with you.

The pitch, the deck and the launch that get funders and customers over the line.

StrategyCase studiesAdvertising

Feel effortless.

A website, a CRM and the systems behind them, built so your team actually uses them.

WebFull-stackUX

Keep getting better.

Someone still watching the numbers long after launch.

CROEDMSocial