Harness our rich and diverse heritage of envisaging concepts, opportunities and outcomes (which others often miss) to deliver a wide range of functional, effective visual communication solutions that will have you and your customers saying ‘WOW!’
At MASTHEAD Design & Creative, we’re not about ‘drive-thru window’ work or ‘half-arsed’ measures that don’t wring every last drop of value-added creative from a brief and a budget to help you get maximum bang for your buck!
Instead, we focus on building long-term relationships in which goals and targets are regularly exceeded, based on solid foundations of shared experience, business knowledge and market understanding, working together to empower our clients with winning resources.
For general enquiries, or to request a complimentary introductory consultation to discuss your branding, publication or other digital and print design needs, please “say ‘G’Day” and we’ll be in touch with you on the same or next business day.
While MASTHEAD Design & Creative has been busy delivering digital and print projects for our clients, publishing books and annual reports, and creating lusciously-engaging maps, striking vehicle wraps (and much more besides!) we’ve had to leave you with an early landing page that, by all accounts, many people found to be a relaxing visit to simply ‘take five’ out of their busy day to enjoy the virtual water.
This soothing scene is exclusive to MASTHEAD Design & Creative and integral to our own brand DNA: click the preview thumbnail to open a pop-up window and take a moment to exhale and smile – welcome home!
As we make this debut, in the final sprint to meet pre-Christmas 2023 deadlines, at MASTHEAD Design & Creative we’re busy juggling the completion of annual reports, yearbooks and other major client commitments, so the indulgence of expanding and fully populating our own new website will necessarily take a back seat for a few weeks. Here’s ‘four cuts of the cake’ to whet your appetite for WOW!
Loyalty is a strong value here at MASTHEAD Design & Creative—to our clients, colleagues, contractors, and suppliers—and we have valued FlippingBook’s steady platform for a decade to showcase our clients’ best to maximum immersive, interactive, and engaging effect.
Sample our curated 2024 selection of selected digital books, magazines, reports and interactive e-publications for a taste of the possibilities! When you visit our library, click on an individual front cover image to open that publication in a new browser.
Click on the FlippingBookshelf image or the button below to visit and view our library.
Explore our curated selection of digital books, magazines, reports, and interactive e-publications to discover the potential opportunities for your business! Visit our FlippingBook library and click on the cover image of a publication to open it in a new browser.
Loyalty is a strong value here at MASTHEAD Design & Creative—to our clients, colleagues, contractors, and suppliers—and we have valued FlippingBook’s steady platform for a decade to showcase our clients’ best to maximum immersive, interactive, and engaging effect.
Click on the FlippingBookshelf image or the button below to visit and view our library.
Click on the thumbnail images to dive into one of our featured FB publications from our online library over time.
Once our new website has a chance to pause, draw breath and expand, we’ll be introducing a ‘Musings’ (blog and news) page in the extended navigation bar. This could include a curation of thoughts, findings and observations ranging from the quirky and fun (stuff that tickles our dry sense of humour!) to more serious commentary and links to topics for thoughtful consideration.
Loyalty is a strong value here at MASTHEAD D&C - to our clients, colleagues, contractors and suppliers - and we have valued the steady platform of FlippingBook for a decade to showcase our clients’ best to maximum immersive, interactive and engaging effect Click on the thumbnail image to dive into one of our featured FB publications from our online library over time.
Once our new website has a chance to pause, draw breath and expand, we’ll be introducing a ‘Musings’ (blog and news) page in the extended navigation bar. This could include a curation of thoughts, findings and observations ranging from the quirky and fun (stuff that tickles our dry sense of humour!) to more serious commentary and links to topics for thoughtful consideration.
You’re welcome to continue scrolling and reading – especially when you bookmark this new MASTHEAD Design & Creative website to return and see what’s new as we enhance its content in the coming weeks – but hopefully, we’ve given you a good sense of our integrity and a warm feel for the character of our approach and our style in just these initial modules. If you’ve already got the sense that we layer fun, insight and engagement onto a foundation of serious functionality and long-term relationship, then now might be the time to say “G’Day” to start a potentially fruitful conversation … or you can also read on before clicking!
Amidst the ‘what’ and ‘who’ aspects of the work of MASTHEAD Design & Creative, the ‘how’ and ‘why’ facets shine through in all we do for clients.
Why? Why not? – shake it up, twist the cube; explore beyond apparent boundaries and limitations to see what might be possible.
Situational Awareness – our diverse aviation / marine / event experience means we are always mindful of context and perspective.
Conceiving, planning, tracking, monitoring and fine-tuning corrections, with a determination to ‘stay the course’ to the best outcome.
We stand with our work and by our brand promise, in sure conscience that our ‘above-and-beyond best’ is indeed worthy of ‘WOW!’
Please stand by: we’re currently curating a representative ‘logo fruit salad’ of MASTHEAD Design & Creative clients large and small, from widely-
known to those familiar to only their niche market segments, and sorting the ingredients for fresh and tasty presentation!
Presenting examples of a diverse range of work is crucial for
potential clients evaluating whether MASTHEAD Design & Creative would be a good fit and, equally, it’s important to also present a snapshot context of any jobs chosen for public appraisal. Our huge
experience in working with, for example, not-for-profit organisations,
sole traders and small businesses means that creative solutions may not win design industry awards (and there’s always the concern about instant subjective reactions in isolation) but they will have delivered WOW! outcomes – sometimes on ‘the smell of an oily rag’ budgets! – wringing every last drop out of the utility, quality, reach and engagement far exceeding customer expectations. (Case studies coming soon!)
• Integrated digital/print projects • Brand development & curation • Infografix & complex data visual communication • Maps & wayfinding • Annual Reports • Books, magazines & catalogues • Reports & technical documents • Editorial, copywriting & features • Signage, displays, vehicle decals & promo products • Website CMS & eDMs • Production co-ordination & project management … are just some of MASTHEAD D&C’s core competencies! If we are unable to handle it in-house, chances are, after 40 years in the business, we know someone who can (and we have a wide-spanning network of trusted business contacts too).
Some of the principles underpinning MASTHEAD Design & Creative work include • Complexity made clear – in visuals, words, data and presentation • Engaging and immersive audience experience • Luscious location mapping (we love maps!) • Clearly informative content & communications • Integrated and interactive project co-ordination • Collaboration and integration, vertically, laterally & geographically • Long-term relationships fostered for mutual benefit • Trusted integrity as a reliable provider with a proven track record.
With 40 years’ experience behind MASTHEAD Design & Creative, we have spanned many sectors, including • Hospitality & events • Transit & transport • Government (all levels) • Not-for-profits • Community organisations • Start-ups, Sole Traders & SMEs • Historical research • Art and Architecture • Building & construction • Engineering • Technology & ICT • Aeronautical • Marine • Wayfinding & mapping • Book publishing • International markets – to name but a few!
There’s quite a few ‘4s’ on this page so here’s 5 features of MASTHEAD Design & Creative’s USP:
1 OUT IN FRONT
At the risk of sounding like wankers* there’s been demonstrable numbers of instances over the decades where, with hindsight, it’s been shown that our concepts or our work have been developed and presented or delivered between two and eight years ahead of their time. (*It’s a calculated risk we’re prepared to run, and we’ll be covering subjects as diverse as the Falklands War, Garfield, Qantas rebranding and “Air Crash Investigations” to support this claim in forthcoming MUSINGS blog articles – stay tuned!)
2 THINK DIFFERENT
At MASTHEAD Design & Creative, we have an innate knack for extrapolating from and envisioning beyond the core elements of a brief to ask ‘What if?’ questions that challenge preconceptions and ‘limitations’ with a fresh approach – sometimes very 90-degrees ‘left field’! – which illuminates hitherto-unseen, not yet considered possibilities … we didn’t arrive at our ‘WOW!’ tagline without having heard it many, many times from clients and customers saying “Wow, I hadn’t thought of THAT!”
3 FUNCTIONAL AND FIT-FOR-PURPOSE
The foundation of almost all our design projects is in utility, functionality, practicality and longevity (supporting credibility, visibility and value-for-money) – if something doesn’t ‘work’ then it’s unlikely to register emotionally, deliver financially and risks diminishing or damaging a promise. (That’s why we always begin branding development in B&W – if a concept works in one-colour, grayscale and reverse, then it will work in full colour … but not necessarily the other way round.)
4 ENGAGE AND IMMERSE
Brands should be strong enough to be adaptable, playful and wear many outfits without dissolution of their recognition and core values; tweaks, twists and layers of meaning in logos that pass first glance unnoticed but leave a subliminal ‘hook’ prompt audience re-engagement. Similarly, at MASTHEAD Design & Creative we love maps for being luscious story-telling, immersive experiences of colour and fine detail – or instantly, compellingly and helpfully clear explanations of location, context and travel options: your customers and readers will thank you!
5 EXCEED EXPECTATIONS
In many respects, it’s sum of 1, 2, 3 and 4 above but, simply put, it’s what we always aim to do: it’s in our DNA.
Thank you: if you’ve made it this far down our opening page, we trust you’ve enjoyed the read (plus maybe a chuckle or two!) and developed a sense for what makes ‘MASTHEAD Design & Creative’ one of a kind – and potentially a good fit for your business’s design, creative and visual communication marketing needs. Click to email or pick up the phone and let’s see what we might achieve together!
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For general enquiries, or to request a complimentary introductory consultation to discuss your branding, publication or other digital and print design needs, please “say ‘G’Day” and we’ll be in touch with you on the same or next business day.
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