LOGO DESIGN

This small online startup specialises in custom candy boxes. Makes for a great gift or special surprise for any occasion.

NEW BUSINESS COLLATERAL

This project included creating a logo, business cards and brochures for this startup construction company — specialising in granny flats and home extensions, with over a decade of A-grade experience in the building industry.

LOGO DESIGN

‘Strength has a new agenda’! Located in Sydney’s Five Dock area and run by personal trainer / IFBB elite athlete – Senka Coulton.

LOGO DESIGN

This project was extra special for me, because if you know me then you know I have an uncontrollable sweet tooth! RockyTop^ is a small, online business, making your rocky road dreams come true. After all: ‘It’s the rocky road, not the smooth path, that leads to greatness’.

LOGO DESIGN

Rita delivers great hair and the most amazing service, directly from her studio – Studio 7 to be specific.

LOGO DESIGN

This business delivers fresh, organic produce Sydney-wide. Bright, clean lines and colours were used to communicate Live Well Organics’ commitment to the highest level of quality.

LOGO DESIGN

This incredible local pizza shop was opened by the Lebanese ‘Diab’ family – which in Arabic translates to ‘Wolfpack’. With a history of great food and service, they’ve brought their exciting new restaurant offering to the Shire!

LOGO DESIGN

This Sydney-based meat delivery business wanted a funky look to make it stand apart from other boring businesses. We used letters that resembled cuts of steak, alongside assorted meat icons. This successfully gave the brand a fun, while very relevant, look.

SUB-BRANDING

Kudos got to work with the team at Ian Cubitt’s Classic Home Improvements to build a suite of sub-logos for their key services offered — Granny Flats, Extensions, Smart Homes and Grow Your Home With Us.

These logos needed to be strong enough to stand alone, but also work alongside the main Ian Cubitt’s Classic Home Improvements logo. In the process of creating the four sub-logos, Kudos pitched a streamlined update the the 25 year old ICCHI logo. This update was approved by the Director and also applied to the Newcastle logo.

EVENTS

‘The Iconic Groomer Show fills a void by being the first show dedicated solely to bridge the gap between barber and hairdresser. The show will deliver both high-level education and a unique show experience to attendees by combining live on-stage demonstrations, live photoshoots delivered by top industry artists/influencers and an interactive trade show Connection Center with some of the best brands in the men’s grooming industry.’

Kudos had the exciting international privilege of working with The Iconic Groomer Show to build its 2018 event’s website, as well as flyers and Instagram posts. Kudos managed the ticketing from the back end is looking forward to working with the team again on the 2019 event.

WEDDING STATIONERY

This wedding was set against the stunning backdrop of Sanctuary Cove's Intercontinental Resort, Hope Island.

Matthew & Rebecca wanted to keep their stationery simple and classy, but still stand out and have a personal feel. We achieved this together by not including any colours in their suite, but rather using a blind emboss for their names on the invitation.

As Matthew & Rebecca are from Sydney and their wedding was interstate, the couple wanted to include a small welcome bag in the guests' rooms as a token of gratitude for making the trip. Kudos worked with the bride on this and the result was great and very well received.

Rebecca also wanted to provide everyone with more information than could fit on the invitation, so we created a website with links for hair and makeup artists in the area, as well as things to do around the resort and a page to RSVP online.

RE-BRANDING

Souk & Bizar is a luxury salon, originally based in Chatswood, established in 2008.

In January 2013, S&B relocated to Crowes Nest. Along with its relocation, owner Hanne Koura decided to launch a refreshed look for the brand. A completely new image from the ground up — including a new logo, with a rethought colour palette and fonts.

Ditching the existing black and yellow for a tonal lavender helped to communicate the salon’s upscale look that matches the high end treatment it delivers its clients.

YOUTH LAUNCH

EPIC is the high school ministry of Faith Baptist Church in Sydney, Australia. It began in 2007, with a few different icons over the years, but never an official logo or design language.

This changed in 2017, when Kudos sat down with EPIC’s leader and discussed the importance of creating a visual brand, to give the kids something to feel a part of. There was only one requirement in the brief — to incorporate an army / navy element, as every year at EPIC’s summer camp the teens are split into two rival teams: Army v Navy. The saluting 'I' was the perfect fit to acknowledge this friendly competition.

Since launching the new look, there has been a wave of collateral — from tees and hoodies to event flyers and camp promotions. It has been a lot of fun to work on collateral aimed at teens, as it allows a lot of freedom to be more visually exciting than with an older or more corporate audience.

RE-BRANDING

Originally a fruit shop in Wareemba, Trovatino was transformed into a café in 2001. Kudos worked with owner, Joe Trovato, to refresh the brand to reflect how he originally intended for it to look.

Joe has a strong Italian heritage and an authentic Italian surname — Trovato. In Italian, adding 'ino' to the end of a word means a baby version of it. The café opened when Joe's first son was born and Joe wanted to name the café after his 'baby Trovato'. He also wanted to represent his son through the logo visually, while also showing that the cafe serves brunch and deliciously handcrafted desserts. This is how the icon came to be of a baby, representing Joe’s son, holding pasta in one hand and a cone of the Trovato family's award winning gelato in the other.

CO-BRANDING

Ten years after launching Trovatino Café, Joe opened a standalone gelato store in Darling Harbour, but without the Trovatino name or brand identity. As part of the Trovatino re-brand, he was shown how his gelato store could be tied to the Trovato family franchise.

While the Trovato Gelato logo is based on a similar core design, playing on the cute baby icon from the Trovatino logo, it leaves out the pasta to make it clear this is solely a gelato shop.

The complementary colour schemes and hand drawn vector food icons used throughout both brands’ collateral do a great job of tying them together.

WEDDING STATIONERY

There is a lot of culture in this wedding, with Jamie being born and raised in Australia with Lebanese heritage and Dimitra being born and raised in Greece with a father who grew up in Australia.

With all these countries involved, they decided to have their wedding in Greece with her family, before starting their life together in Australia. They came to Kudos with the idea to embrace the destination wedding theme and together we created a story through their invitations.

First went out the Save the Date cards, which were designed to look like a boarding pass. Then after a few months, when they had an idea of who would actually be able to attend, official invitations were distributed — this time designed to resemble a postcard.

Kudos also setup a website with all the wedding details and an online RSVP system, as well as locations for the wedding ceremony and reception, with a suggested hotel and anything else guests would need to know in order to plan their trip.

WEDDING STATIONERY

This was such a beautiful rustic estate wedding. It had a gentle peach and ivory theme, with a bold bride's choice to incorporate periwinkle blue. A difficult feat at first glance, but tied together quite nicely with the bridesmaids' dresses and the overall vibe of the wedding — even the groomsmen's socks gave a subtle nod to the invitations.

Every envelope was handwritten in calligraphy by the bride herself, which added a very elegant personal touch.

INTERIOR

This client lives in the Sutherland area of Sydney and has been wanting to mount some framed family photos and Bible verses with graphics since moving in with their first child several years ago.

Now with four children and still having nothing hung up around the house, Kudos got involved to organise a combination of custom designed framed Bible verses, as well as order and mount beautiful family photos on canvas.

WEDDING STATIONERY

This couple live in Manhattan, New York, but decided to get married in Richard’s hometown — Sydney, Australia.

While they had their wedding invitations done in the US, Kudos designed Ashley’s Save the Dates for her Kitchen Tea & Hens Night. Kudos also had the pleasure of creating their beautiful ceremony’s Order of Service.

MINISTRY LAUNCH

Faith Baptist Church in Sydney launched Elevate for over 18s. The brief was to create a simple symbol and some promotion for the new group.

The simple, broken down 'E' was the starting point. The shape was then developed around it, which is a circle that comes to a point at the top right to represent an arrow pointing forward and upward — aka 'elevating'.

This became Elevate's icon used on collateral such as sweaters and social media, while the alternate version with the full word — Elevate — gets used across promo cards and event flyers.

BRANDING

This niche business is making waves on Instagram. Their model is to take denim jackets that people already own and, well, ‘Bling It’.

They have since expanded their offering to other materials, as well as different items of clothing and accessories. Kudos is very excited to continue working with the ladies at Bling It and see where their venture takes them.

BRANDING

Eastgate Institute is a Bible college that also offers accredited tertiary qualifications in Nursing, Business and Information Technology.

Its icon was kept clean and vague to avoid being dismissed as only offering Bible courses, while the subtle 'E' cuts through the shield to represent the college name and display an ascension of knowledge.

PRINT PUBLICATION

‘Branded is a unique magazine, which, with a circulation of 30,000 copies,
is the highest in its category in Australia.’

Worked on the cover design and interior layout of Issue #11 of this game changing magazine, which is one of a kind in its industry.

VIDEO PRODUCTION

While Kudos does not specialise in video production, Jamie experimented with making an unofficial short film tribute to Johnny Mannah, who passed away in January 2013 from Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

The project was edited using Final Cut Pro X on a 2013 15" MacBook Pro w/ Retina Display. While it was only an experiment, a lot was learned in the process about using FCPX and the steps involved in creating a short film.