We design brands for Sydney businesses that have outgrown the logo they started with. Positioning first, then a name, identity and guidelines you can actually run the business with, and a website built by the same team so the brand looks the same everywhere it turns up.
Start with a free brand review. Send us your website or Instagram and within a week you get a short written summary of the three things holding your brand back, whether or not you hire us.
Rated 5.0 from 31 Google reviews. Sydney design and web team since 2016.
Our Brand capabilities
- Brand Strategy
- Brand Design
- Brand Guidelines
- Tone of Voice
- Brand Implementation
- Brand Reposition
Brand and website, from the same desk
Most branding agencies hand you a logo file and a PDF, then the website gets built by someone else and the brand quietly falls apart. We design the identity and build the site, so what you signed off is what your customers see.
5.0 stars
Google rating, from 31 reviews
Since 2016
Designing brands and websites for Sydney businesses
One team
Strategy, identity and the website, by the people who designed it
Good fit if
- You are launching something new and need a name, logo and identity that will still hold up in five years
- Your logo was made years ago, the business has grown up and the brand has not
- Your website, socials, signage and proposals all look like they came from different companies
- You want guidelines so staff and suppliers stop improvising with the logo
Not a fit if you want a logo contest or a template with your name typed in. There are cheaper places for that, and we would rather tell you so than take the job.
How a brand project runs
We talk to you, and where it helps, to a few of your customers. What the business actually does, who it is for, who you are up against and what the current brand is getting wrong. You get that back in writing.
One page that says what you stand for, who you serve and why someone should pick you. Every design decision after this points back to it, so we agree on it before anything is drawn.
Logo, colour, type and the system that holds them together. You see two or three directions in context, on a real page, a shopfront, a social post, not floating on a white board.
The website, templates and rollout assets, built by the same team that designed the identity. This is where most rebrands fall apart, and it is the part we are known for.
Guidelines you can hand to a printer or a new hire, every file in every format, and a launch plan for the day the new brand goes public. We stay around for the questions that follow.
Brands that made it all the way to the shopfront
What you get
Who you are for, what you stand for and why someone should choose you over the two other businesses they are also looking at. We get there by talking to you and, where it helps, to a few of your customers, then writing it down on one page you can hand to anyone who works on the brand.
Every design decision after this points back to that page. It is the part most agencies skip, and it is the reason most rebrands look nice and change nothing.
A name that is available as a domain and a business name, ownable, and easy to say on the phone, plus the words the brand uses and the ones it never does. We check trademarks and search results before you fall in love with anything.
Tone of voice comes as a short, practical guide with real examples: a headline, a product description, an apology email, an Instagram caption. Written so a new staff member could pick it up on day one.
Logo, colour, typography and imagery designed as a system rather than a single mark. We test it at favicon size, on a business card, on the side of a van and on a phone screen before you see it, because a logo that only works on a slide is not finished.
You see two or three directions in context, on a real page or a real shopfront, and we tell you which one we would pick and why.
A practical guide your team, your printer and your signwriter will actually use: logo rules, colour codes, type, spacing, imagery, tone, and the things not to do. Delivered as a PDF and a shared folder with every file in every format, so nobody ever has to ask for the logo again.
Short enough to read in ten minutes. Long guidelines get ignored; ours get used.
Designed and built by the same team that designed the identity, so the brand survives contact with the internet. Most rebrands fall apart at exactly this point, when the logo file gets handed to a web developer who was not in the room.
We build on WordPress and Shopify, host it ourselves and support it afterwards. The website is where most of your customers will meet the brand first, so we treat it as part of the identity, not an afterthought.
Business cards, proposals, invoices, email signatures, signage, vehicle wraps, social templates and the merchandise, done properly rather than left for later. We prepare print-ready files, brief the printers and signwriters, and check the proofs.
A launch plan for the day the new brand goes public, so the website, the socials, the signage and the email to your customers all change on the same morning and say the same thing.
Only need part of it? A logo refresh or a set of guidelines for a brand that already works is a smaller job, and we will say so.
Why Sydney businesses choose us
We have been designing brands and building the websites behind them since 2016. Four things set the work apart.
We build the website too
A brand is not finished when the logo file lands. We design the identity and build the site, so the two never drift apart.
You see the thinking
Positioning comes before pixels. Every colour, typeface and line of copy has a reason you could repeat to your business partner.
Guidelines you will actually use
Short, practical and written for the printer, the signwriter and the new hire, not for a design awards jury.
Local
Erskine Park, Western Sydney. We know the difference between a brand for Parramatta and one for Penrith, and we will meet you in person.
What clients say
Rated 5.0 from 31 Google reviews. Three of them, in the clients’ own words.
Questions
Before you ask for the review
The things Sydney business owners ask us before a brand project starts. If yours is not here, put it in the form and we will answer it in the review.
How much does branding cost?
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How does Defyn ensure that my new brand will stand out in a competitive market?
What is the first step in starting a rebranding process with Defyn?
Can a brand strategy agency like Defyn help with digital aspects of rebranding, such as website and app development?
How do you measure the effectiveness of your branding strategies?
Do you offer custom branding solutions tailored to specific needs?
What makes Defyn different from other brand development agency in Sydney?
Get the free brand review
Send us your website or Instagram. Within a week you will have a short written summary of the three things holding your brand back and what fixing them would involve. No obligation, and no automated follow-up sequence.
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