A strong brand doesn't just look good. It should be easy to use, flexible enough to grow with your business and designed for the real world.

Before you think about logos and packaging, ask yourself one simple question: why would somebody choose your product? This article explores how four food brands use story, trust, understanding and desire to connect with the right customers.

By sign-off stage, my client and I have often looked at the same project so many times that we ‘can’t see the wood for the trees’. That can be exactly when small details become easier to miss.

A structured proofing process helps reduce the risk of those details being overlooked. This guide explains how that process works.

You shouldn’t need to know the “right” design language to confidently talk about your own business. This article explores why I choose to keep communication jargon-free and how clearer conversations often lead to better creative outcomes.

A well-designed event brand shouldn’t need reinventing every year. With the right structure in place, it can grow, adapt and keep doing its job over time.

Small tweaks to your logo can feel harmless. A colour change here, a slight adjustment there. But over time, those changes add up and start to erode something far more important: recognition. Before long, your brand becomes something that’s different everywhere you see it.

Clients often ask to “talk about colour”, but colour isn’t fixed, objective or shared in the way we often assume. Here’s why words alone usually aren’t enough, and what works better instead.

Many businesses start out with a single logo. That’s a great first step, but in practice one logo rarely works for every situation.

Your brand appears in lots of different places. Your website header, social media profiles, packaging, invoices, signage, email signatures and more. Each of these spaces has different size and shape requirements and a single logo design can struggle to fit them all properly.

Food labels might look small, but they carry a lot on their shoulders. Ingredients, allergens, nutrition information, serving sizes… every single word has a job to do. And while the design might look polished and professional, the proof you get from your designer isn’t just about checking colours and fonts.

It’s your last chance to make sure everything is 100% right.

Thinking about a brand refresh? Here’s how to know it’s time.

If you’re running an established business and have already invested in your branding, you’ve probably come across the term brand refresh. It’s not a full rebrand—it’s more like a strategic tidy-up. You’re keeping the essence (name, recognition, the good stuff), but updating what no longer fits. That might mean tweaking your colour palette, refining your logo, or sharpening your messaging to better reflect where your brand is now.

Why does it matter, and how can you make it work for you?

As a small business, you’ve probably heard that branding is important. And while that’s true, it’s consistency that really makes branding work hard for your business.

Your business is hitting a milestone—make sure people notice.

You've done the work, you’ve built the brand and you’ve stayed the course. Whether it’s five, ten, twenty or even sixty-five years—you’ve earned the right to celebrate. Now it’s time to own it.

Well designed logos are clearly recognisable in any colour and can function in simple black and white, however there is strong evidence to suggest that colour has a huge influence on brand recognition - most likely because it’s the first thing that a potential customer notices.

Great food packaging design attracts attention, communicates information and creates a positive brand impression. As a food packaging designer it’s my job is to make sure your product’s packaging does all these things.

The short answer is ‘no’. You don’t need to register your business’ name and/or logo as a trade mark. In Australia you do have a legal obligation to register your business name, of course, but registering your business name or logo as trade marks is different to registering it with ASIC.

A logo is a visual symbol or mark used to represent a company or organisation. Brand identity is a broader term that encompasses all of the visual and non-visual elements that represent a brand. It includes things like the logo, typography, colour palette, imagery, messaging, and tone of voice.

It’s March 2020 and the world has changed. The situation is pretty surreal and many of us are now working from home, some of us for the first time. It’s not all doom and gloom though. There are some advantages! For one, you can hang out in your pyjamas all day and you don’t need to brush your hair! Also, no need to spend hours commuting and you can sleep in. Hooray!!

Graphic designers, brand specialists and printers talk in a strange language sometimes and one word that you might come across that’s important to them is ‘vector’. Your logo needs to be in a vector file format.

If you're not a printer or a designer, colours may seem complicated, but if you remember a few key points you'll have enough information to make sure your suppliers (sign writers, printers, web designers) always represent your brand accurately and consistently, when it comes to colour.

For some businesses, Christmas is the busiest time of year, especially for industries like food – you’ll definitely be ramping up your production at the moment if you make sweet or indulgent goodies!