Business advice and advocacy for designers

We help designers build robust, profitable businesses

Consider us a management school for design leaders

We help designers in two ways: we mentor one-on-one and in groups and we write practical resources.

Our onlyness is our knowledge of the Australian design industry. We're not just consultants, we're practitioners. We've founded a successful design studio, employed others and managed clients, and now we use that knowledge to help others. All our advice is relevant and it's practical.

We know what it's like to balance creativity with productivity; client needs with profit, and flexibility with deadlines.

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We write about the business of design

We research and write about practical and relevant industry research and insights to help creative professionals manage their business better. We share nuggets of information we learn from our design business mentoring and coaching services and workshops.

Here’s our four latest articles. You can access the archive here. Or better still, subscribe to get an article delivered directly to your inbox every Wednesday morning.

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