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We help define your brand, customers, and goals, and prepare you for creative projects that actually add value to your business.

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Half Dome Case study
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Vaulter is a branding, strategy and design consultancy.

We specialise in running discovery sessions where together we define your company’s values, targets, obstacles, and audiences, allowing us to clarify your direction and priorities moving forward.

We'll assess the right creative projects to achieve your goals, promote growth, and add value to your company, whether that's a full rebrand, new website, promotional artwork, social media strategy, or digital marketing campaign.

With greater confidence in your brand, you'll know where you're heading before you start implementing the steps to get there.

Services

Whether you're a start-up that's looking for a deeper understanding about your brand, or an established multi-national embarking on a new venture or product, we help ensure your design projects start with clarity and confidence.

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Discovery Sessions

$5,000 +GST

Our core offering

We cannot make bricks without clay. Our discovery sessions are our specialty, and will see us digging into your company or product’s core values and broader identity. The material we mine from these sessions will fuel the development of your updated image and future projects. This session will leave you with a much clearer vision for your company moving forward.

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Brand Guides

Included with Discovery Sessions

Our core offering

We build on the goals and attributes identified in our discovery sessions to create a document that showcases the heart and soul of your brand. By focussing on key results and customer profiles, our Brand Guide will put your business in a position to drive revenue, awareness, and efficiency upwards.

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Brief & Connect

$2,000 +GST

Optional

The consultancy phase of our process sees Vaulter bridge the gap between you and other design agencies. We know what clients want, and how creatives operate. This allows us to develop robust briefs, offering a clear and streamlined project overview for prospective agencies to build out your required deliverables.

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Process

Great design starts with a clear strategy. This approach identifies problems, explores solutions, and provides you with a clear understanding of your brand's directionthrough the critical first stages.

Discovery
Our core offering
Optional
If you are commencing a creative project after Discovery
Partner Agency
Completed by the selected partner agency
1.
Discover
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We assess and refine your company’s values, targets, obstacles, audiences, and priorities.

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2.
Guide
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We create a document that showcases the heart and soul of your brand,  key stakeholders towards your business goals.

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Brief
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We assemble a robust design brief that confidently conveys your project's objectives and outcomes for prospective design agencies.

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Connect
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We connect you with a shortlist of recommended agencies, presenting them with the completed brief and organising introductory calls.

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Build
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Once you've selected your preferred agency, they will take over from here, working with you to bring your shared vision to life.

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Deliver
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You launch, unveiling your finished product to the world.

Full breakdown
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Previous Agency Work

Previously operating as a full-service design agency, and with over 17 years of award-winning industry experience under our belts, we have developed hundreds of projects to the point of launch.

We know what it takes to produce strategy-driven creative work that digs beneath the surface and resonates on a deeper level.

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Team

Based in Naarm / Melbourne, in the heart of Collingwood.

Latest Awards
CSSDA SOTD x 3
CSSDA Best UI x 2
CSSDA Best UX x 2
CSSDA Innovation x 2
CSSDA SK x 2
Awwwards HM
Awwwards SOTD
Css Winner SOTM
Boostilizer SOTD
Mindsparkle Mag SOTD
Stellenbosch A. Feature
Visual Modo Feature
Offsprout Feature
Creative Frontend
CommArts Feature
Muzli Feature
Offsprout Feature
Maxi best-of Feature
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Dan Thomas
Creative Director

Dan is an accomplished designer, consultant, and workshop facilitator with almost two decades of industry experience.

He also runs team-building workshops, teaches and performs improvised comedy, and mentors up-and-coming design students.

Dan first started working in design in the mid-2000s, for clients such as Universal Records, Interscope, and 50 Cent.

Press

Latest Press
Designboom
Gestalten
Ignant
VisualPleasure Mag
Hypebae
Frame Magazine
Latest Publications
German Design Awards
The Futur — Stylescapes
Gestalten — Dreamscapes
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Designboom

Vaulter co-founder and artist, Paul Milinski, speaks to Designboom about his work. Take a glimpse of his serene hybridisation of minimalist architecture and overgrown nature series.

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Get in touch
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