Our Awards
2024:
We are thrilled to announce our outstanding performance at the 2024 Transform Awards, where our work has once again been recognised for excellence in branding and creative strategy.
This year, we took home another impressive array of accolades, showcasing the breadth and depth of our expertise:
- Best Visual Identity from the Retail Sector – Bronze for our work with Augmento, recognising the impact of a refreshed brand identity that connects with audiences and drives business success.
- Best Naming Strategy (Rename) – Gold for our innovative work with NIKO, an approach that demonstrated the power of evidence-led naming to transform brand perception.
- Best Visual Identity from the Energy and Utilities Sector – Gold for NIKO, further highlighting the creative strength and strategic focus of this project.
- Best Brand Architecture Solution – Bronze for our comprehensive rebranding of Presbyterian Support Northern, aligning nine service brands under a unified identity while maintaining their individuality.
- Best Visual Identity by a Charity, NGO or NFP – Highly Commended for Presbyterian Support Northern, a distinction that acknowledges the creativity and significance of this brand transformation.
- Best Creative Strategy – Bronze also for Presbyterian Support Northern, reflecting the innovative and cohesive approach underpinning this rebrand.
These awards are a testament to our evidence-led approach and unwavering commitment to delivering brands that drive meaningful impact.
We are incredibly proud of our talented team and grateful to our clients for trusting us with their brands. Here’s to pushing creative boundaries and achieving more in 2025!
See here for full details:
https://www.transformmagazine.net/awards/anz/past-winners/2024-transform-awards-anz/
2023:
In 2023 we won a gold award for brand naming. This award was judged on how the name aligned with the client’s new business strategy, including how it portrayed them to their target audience, and how it repositioned them in their market.
Our awards in the Transform Branding Awards Australasia were:
2023 GOLD – Envisory for Best Naming
2023 SILVER – Harrowfield for Best Brand Evolution
2023 SILVER – Harrowfield for Best Rebrand Professional Services
2023 SILVER – OCTO for Best Naming
2023 BRONZE – Harrowfield for Best Typography
See here for full details:
https://www.transformmagazine.net/awards/anz/past-winners/2023-transform-awards-anz/
2022:
We’ve won big again. 2022 is our best year yet!
We won 3 golds and 2 silvers at the 2022 Australasian Branding Awards. The first Gold went to Real Meals for best use of packaging. One judge said:
“A great example of repositioning for success,”. Another said: “Excellent example of how elevating the packaging and honing in a brand’s unique positioning can lead to powerful results.”
A second gold went to Real Meals for best naming strategy. One judge said:
“I love the name and articulated challenge,”. “Plus, the insight-led strategy was really well done and communicated well in the submission.” Other judges praised the project for clearly understanding the consumers’ needs and therefore creating a well-positioned brand to match them with its no-nonsense name.
A third gold went to KRL for best place or nation brand. One judge said:
“Love this,”. “All the elements – from naming, visuals and application across channels and messaging – were excellent.” Another judge praised the depth of research undertaken during the project. “A fun and creative delivery; you feel you’re on the journey!” added another judge.
The first silver went to Real Meals for best visual identity from the FMCG sector. A second silver went to pH7 for best visual identity from the industrial and basic materials sector.
The second silver went to pH7 for best visual identity from the industrial and basic materials sector.
See here for full details.
2021:
We’ve won gold, silver and bronze in the 2021 Australasian Branding Awards. Gold went to ChargeNet for the Best Wayfinding system in our rebrand and execution of their charging network across the county.
“A good example that shows that sometimes less is more. The outcome is clean, creating a better UX for the customer,” one judge said. Another added, “Significant transformation based on understanding the role of the charger as a billboard.”
Silver to ChargeNet as well for Best Brand Evolution. And a bronze for Olé Football Academy for the Best rebrand in Sports, travel, leisure & tourism sector.
2020:
We’ve won gold in the Australasian Branding Awards in the category ‘branding of a merger or acquisition’ for our work on Te Kupenga. The judges said it was a clear example of bringing different brands in under one single master brand yet still allowing the different identities to be understood.
“The visual identity is rich with symbolism which aligns well to the overall brand” said one judge. Another added, “A great strategy, execution and result.”
2019:
We won GOLD at the Transform Asia Pacific Branding Awards which were presented in Shanghai, China. We were judged best for our naming strategy for our rebranding work on SEQA.
We also picked up a silver for our rebrand with SEQA in the IT sector; two bronze awards for our work with Qual IT (best rebrand with in the IT sector) and Liquid IT (best use of a visual property), plus a highly commended.
These awards are the regions pinnacle brand awards. We take on the best and win which is an amazing testament to the work we do and the vision our clients have. We couldn’t be more thrilled for them.
You might be wondering why we enter these awards? Find out about the awards, the competition and why we enter here.
2018:
Mercy Hospice picked up two Silvers for the Best rebrand in the Not-for-profit sector and Best internal communication during a rebrand process. This latter award we’re particularly proud of and internal stakeholder engagement is essential in branding and a step most often overlooked.
Intra picked up Best re-naming strategy for a brand project.
Our full list of TRANSFORM branding awards:
- 2024 GOLD – TRANSFORM branding awards (Australasia) – NIKO for Best Naming Strategy (Rename).
- 2024 GOLD – TRANSFORM branding awards (Australasia) – NIKO for Best Visual Identity from the Energy and Utilities Sector.
- 2024 BONZE – TRANSFORM branding awards (Australasia) – Augmento, recognising the impact of a refreshed brand identity that connects with audiences and drives business success.
- 2024 BONZE – TRANSFORM branding awards (Australasia) – Presbyterian Support Northern for Best Brand Architecture Solution.
- 2024 HIGHLY COMMENDED – Transform branding awards (Australasia) – Presbyterian Support Northern for Best Visual Identity by a Charity, NGO or NFP.
- 2024 BONZE – TRANSFORM branding awards (Australasia) – Presbyterian Support Northern for the best creative strategy
- 2023 GOLD – TRANSFORM branding awards (Australasia) – Envisory for the Best Naming
- 2023 SILVER – TRANSFORM branding awards (Australasia) – Harrowfield for the Best brand evolution
- 2023 SILVER – TRANSFORM branding awards (Australasia) – Harrowfield for the Best rebrand in the professional service sector
- 2023 SILVER – TRANSFORM branding awards (Australasia) – OCTO for the Best Naming
- 2023 BRONZE – TRANSFORM branding awards (Australasia) – Harrowfield for the Best use of typography
- 2022 GOLD – TRANSFORM branding awards (Australasia) – Real Meals – Best use of packaging
- 2022 GOLD – TRANSFORM branding awards (Australasia) – Real Meals – Best naming strategy
- 2022 GOLD – TRANSFORM branding awards (Australasia) – KRL – Best place or nation brand
- 2022 SILVER – TRANSFORM branding awards (Australasia) – Real Meals – Best visual identity from the FMCG sector
- 2022 SILVER – TRANSFORM branding awards (Australasia) – pH7 – Best visual identity from the industrial and basic materials sector
- 2021 GOLD – TRANSFORM branding awards (Australasia) – ChargeNet – Best wayfinding or signage
- 2021 SILVER – TRANSFORM branding awards (Australasia) – ChargeNet – Best Brand Evolution
- 2021 BRONZE – TRANSFORM branding awards (Australasia) – Olé Football Academy – Best rebrand in Sports, travel, leisure & tourism sector
- 2020 GOLD– Transform branding awards (Australasia) Te Kupenga – Best rebrand following a Merger/Acquisition
- 2020 SILVER – Transform branding awards (Australasia) Te Kupenga – Best Creative Strategy
- 2020 BRONZE – Transform branding awards (Australasia) Te Kupenga – Best visual identity for NFP
- 2019 GOLD – Transform branding awards (Australasia) SEQA – Best naming strategy
- 2019 SILVER – Transform branding awards (Australasia) SEQA – Best rebrand in the IT sector
- 2019 BRONZE – Transform branding awards (Australasia) QUAL IT – Best rebrand in the IT sector
- 2019 BRONZE – Transform branding awards (Australasia) LIQUID IT – Best use of a visual property
- 2018 GOLD– Transform branding awards (Australasia) Intra – Best rebrand in the Healthcare sector
- 2018 SILVER– Transform branding awards (Australasia) Mercy Hospice – Best rebrand in the Not-for-profit sector
- 2018 SILVER– Transform branding awards (Australasia) Mercy Hospice – Best internal communication during a rebrand process
- 2018 HIGHLY COMMENDED– Transform branding awards (Australasia) Intra – Best re-naming strategy for a brand project
- 2016 SILVER– Transform branding awards (Australasia) Hobson Leavy – Best rebrand in the professional services sector
- 2015 GOLD– Transform branding awards (Australasia) Proactive – Best rebrand in the healthcare sector
- 2015 SILVER – Transform branding awards (Australasia) Proactive – Best rebrand related to change in mission, values or positioning
Accolades and acknowledgments
In recent years, we have garnered an array of prestigious international awards and received widespread acclaim and recognition from both renowned institutions and the media alike.
GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE – Asia Pacific Transform Branding Awards (branding)
GOLD – NZ Best Design Awards (illustration)
GOLD – NZ Pride In Print Awards (publication design)
GOLD – Pride in Print Awards (packaging design)
WINNER – Chill NZ Image Competition
GOLD – ACPA Australasia Publishing Awards (magazine design)
MEDIA – Published in Idealog, Stuff, NZ Herald, D.E.Carter LogoBook, NewDivision.
