B2B & SERVICE INDUSTRY BRANDING AGENCY
Beyond logos
We build living brands
Living in
your customers' imaginations the way your team says 'hello' every business decision
*but we also make ace logos.
So what can our branding agency build for you?
Sondo is a leading brand consultant in Melbourne & the Gold Coast
“Sondo got us straight away, and delivered a
fantastic final product.”
BRAND AGENCY MELBOURNE AND GOLD COAST
Hi there, we're Sondo
B2B and service industry specialists
We’re an agency of problem-solvers and storytellers, based in Melbourne and the Gold Coast. We help grouse people with great ideas change the world.
Whether your old identity needs a refresh or you’re developing a new brand from scratch, we’ll help articulate what makes you special, then shape it into a vibrant story told by your team every day across your visuals, language and culture.
You’ll leave with a brand that’s not just beautiful, but actually helps run your business.
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BRAND DESIGN AND CREATIVE AGENCY
Here's how we can help
Our branding company offers a full suite of services to create your brand, launch it, and keep it purring for years to come.
Too often, projects fail because no one stopped to identify the core problem. At Sondo, the foundation of everything we do exists upon an effective brand strategy. This way, our creative projects aren’t just beautiful – they actually make a difference.
Sondo is a branding agency known for its insightful brand and marketing strategy. We’ll dig deep to understand your organisation and industry, identify the core challenge standing between you and your goals, and recommend the most effective levers to solve it.
To discover more about how we can help you with brand development and strategy, click here.
Brand design and visual identity are what most people think of when they hear the word “brand”. And with good reason. Your visual identity is only one element of your brand, but it’s where most customers’ experience of your brand starts. As a creative branding agency, our brand design will ensure that first impression wows them.
Words are the quiet achievers of branding. Your business’s voice has a great effect on how the world perceives you – and it’s one of the most cost effective ways to influence customers. We’re a creative branding agency who has developed standout verbal identities for market leaders. We’ll craft the perfect tone of voice for your business, and create key messages to ensure you’re telling a compelling, consistent story every time you snatch a customer’s attention.
Been to a great looking restaurant that was let down by crappy service? Culture is the most overlooked pillar of branding. The way every team member from CEO to intern acts profoundly affects how customers and staff perceive your business.
Sondo can help you create the foundations for a strong, positive culture that actively reinforces your brand identity at every moment of every day.
To stay current with customer (and staff) needs and expectations, your organisation may need to refresh its brand from time to time. A rebrand or refresh can be an essential tool to achieve new business goals, but it needs to be managed right to bring your stakeholders with you.
At Sondo, we’re passionate about creating new brands. It’s an exciting opportunity to pitch your dream, think big, and explore all the possibilities for your new business.. But the tricky question is: which of those possibilities are right? Don’t worry, we’ve got you. We’ll steer your business past the common traps and dead-ends to craft a brand that’s unique, authentic and effective.
A merger or acquisition is an exciting opportunity for growth but also brings the potential for instability. Developing the right brand is key to navigating doubts and rallying everyone behind a bold, new vision for the future.
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Clients
Do you want a brand that...
- Aligns with your business objectives
- Clearly communicates your values
- Deeply connects with your ideal clients
- Helps you stand out from the crowd
- Drives real results for your business
- Builds a more positive culture
Get in touch and we’ll explain how our process address these objectives.
Meet our closest collaborator.
You
Successful brands evolve out of collaboration, so our approach is all about bringing you into the branding process. We make you an active collaborator every step of the way, so the end result captures the true spirit of your business. And we help you understand how and why your brand works, so you can use it to the greatest effect once we hand you the keys.
Discover the services of one of Australia’s leading branding companies
Brand strategy & research
Brand design is only as good as the brand strategy underlying it. Sondo is a strategic and creative branding agency known for its insightful brand strategy. We’ll dig deep to understand your organisation and industry, identify the core problem standing between you and your goals, and recommend the most effective levers to solve it.
Our strategic planning process is clear, collaborative and achieves successful results for your bottom line.
Brand development & brand Storytelling
Brand is your story. It’s the story of the difference your organisation offers the world. And once you harness the power of that story, your brand can improve performance in so many areas of your business. With over two decades experience in branding, marketing and media, Sondo is an agency that specialises in brand storytelling. We’ll help you articulate what makes you special, and shape it into a vibrant story told through your visuals, language and culture.
Brand & logo design
Your visual branding is most people’s first introduction to you. So it’s essential that it captures your personality, and sends the right message to achieve your business goals. Sondo is a brand design agency that marries beautiful design to smart strategy. We’ll ensure your logo, fonts, visual devices, packaging design and every other element of your look and feel wow your customers, and work consistently with every other touchpoint of your business.
Purpose, values and culture
Your brand starts with your purpose: why does your organisation exist? When defined and used correctly, that purpose and the values you commit to in achieving it, provide invaluable guidance to your everyday decision-making. They’ll also attract like-minded staff and customers, creating a team of passionate champions all working towards your goals. Sondo is a brand culture agency who can help you find your purpose, define your values and create other mechanisms to shape an organisational culture that tells your brand story every day.
New brand
We looooove developing new brands. It’s blue sky time, when anything seems possible. But the tricky question is: amongst all those possibilities, which ones are right? Don’t worry, we got you. We’ll steer your business past the common traps and dead-ends to craft a brand that’s unique, authentic and effective.
Rebrand
Organisations sometimes rebrand at a major pivot point for the business – eg: preparing for a new phase of growth or responding to a crisis. Other times a refresh is needed simply to catch up with organic evolution in the business. Regardless, it’s essential the project is steered by a clear strategy that diagnoses the core problem standing between you and your goals, and identifies how brand can be used to solve it. Enter Sondo: we’re brand strategy specialists.
Mergers & Acquisitions
A merger or acquisition is an exciting opportunity for growth but also brings potential for instability. Developing the right brand is key to navigating doubts and rallying everyone behind a bold, new vision for the future.
We’re a brand consultancy experienced in creating brands to respond to mergers & acquisitions. We’ll help you make your stakeholders feel essential parts of the process, learning essential insights from them along the way. We’ll create a brand architecture that makes sense of any added brands. And we’ll craft a story that articulates what makes your merged organisation special – and better than pre-merger.
When you're ready
to roll (out)
we've got your
Website design
Web development
Marketing collateral
Brand videos
Brand launch
Office fit-out
A strong roll-out is just the thing you need to introduce your new brand to the world in the right way. We can help you there too, with every asset from a website to brochures, to office fit-out. We can also provide creative design and PR support for your brand launch. So let’s roll!
Frequently asked questions
Your branding project is a rare opportunity to step away from the daily commotion and consider your long-term trajectory as a business. As a brand identity agency, Sondo can help you explore all the possibilities, be brave, and create your future with confidence. To discover more about what we do, read through our FAQ section below.
Why is brand design about more than a logo?
Your brand is more than your logo. It’s the story of your business, and the difference it makes to customers’ lives. That story is told through every single part of your business that a customer experiences.
A logo alone is not enough to tell much of a story. If you saw Nike’s swoosh for the first time, not knowing anything about the business, it wouldn’t mean much to you. In fact, it didn’t ever mean much to Nike’s founder, Phil Knight. When Knight first saw the swoosh, his dubious reaction was: "Well, I don't love it, but maybe it will grow on me."
It’s all the other visual elements of a business’s brand - its colours, fonts, icons, style of photography and other imagery - working in combination with the logo that start to tell the full story.
And if those other elements aren’t carefully designed to match the logo, not only won’t they develop a richer story, but they might create ideas that clash with each other, undercutting the power of your logo and backfiring into a confusing customer experience.
So bottom line - it’s very rare you can achieve significant improvements by creating or changing just your logo. You need to design all the visual elements of your brand at the same time, so they work together like a finely tuned machine to tell the story that’s right for your brand.
As a full service creative agency, Sondo has the experience and expertise to capture the what’s special about your business and transform it into a complete, cohesive visual identity. Think of us as brand architects - we sculpt your organisation into a visual work of art. A work of art with your logo as its centrepiece, but supported by every element to tell the same story.
(Oh, and by the way, your brand’s story is shaped by a lot more than just your visuals. Your verbal identity and culture also play key roles in telling your story. So we always recommend reviewing these at the same time as you consider your visual branding. To start thinking about what your brand story might be, try Sondo’s brand positioning guide here.
Why is brand strategy important?
Your brand is your story, but exactly what kind of story do you need to tell to encourage customers to take the action you need? You may also have multiple businesses or products in your group, and you’re trying to decide how many brands you need.
We can help you find answers to all those questions and more by creating a smart brand strategy for your business.
A brand strategy is sort of your battle plan. It’s the thing that ensures your brand isn’t just pretty, but actually solving your business’s key challenges, to get it where it needs to go.
At Sondo, our creative services are a significant and influential part of what we do. But our strategic thinking is what makes our work so effective.
We start every project by diving deep to investigate your business and the wider market. By talking to your stakeholders, auditing your current brand and analysing your competition, we uncover insights that give us - and you - a fresh perspective on your business.
Based on what we learn, we’ll identify the core challenges we need to solve, explore the pro’s and con’s of different solutions, and then recommend the most effective way forward for your brand.
High-quality strategic branding can create a variety of successful outcomes, including:
- Building trust
- Achieving higher and more sustainable performance
- Navigating volatile environments; and
- Attracting higher quality staff
What’s a verbal identity and why does it matter?
Your verbal identity is how your business presents itself through language - both the words used in your written communications, and the way your team speak to each other and to customers. Sondo can help your business discover its own unique voice, expressing your brand’s distinct personality.
The best branding agencies understand how crucial verbal identity is in setting your brand apart from competitors, and reinforcing your overall corporate identity. Through your voice, you can build trust and credibility, and reflect a commitment to authenticity. Verbal identity also plays a crucial role in brand recognition and consistency across a variety of communication channels, including advertising, social media and in-house communication.
Why are a business’s purpose and values important?
One key factor shared by the world’s most successful, visionary businesses is that they have a clear understanding of the purpose and core values that drive them.
These foundations of organisational culture provide a resilient framework for better decision-making that directly links to business growth. But they also reach outside the business to attract consumers who share your worldview. This new market brings more than customer loyalty - they’re passionate brand champions who spread the word about your business with the world, supercharging your marketing.
As a leading brand and culture agency, Sondo can guide your management team (or collaborate with your people & culture team) to identify your purpose and values, and create behaviours to put them into daily practice.
We can also make your entire team more engaged with your purpose and values, and catalyse transformation of your culture, through:
- workshops
- internal communication campaigns
- brand videos; and
- advice on better ways to use the office environment to foster a positive culture.
What does brand have to do with organisational culture?
When built right, your brand and your organisational culture continually reinforce each other, making both stronger.
Your culture is one of the 3 key channels through which your business communicates its brand to the world. (The other 2 channels are your visuals and your language or “verbal identity”.)
The purpose and values you champion, and the way your team acts, say a lot to the world about what kind of business you are. Are you caring and attentive, or aloof and cool? Do you prize equality and lift everyone, or do you reward peak achievement and reserve yourself for the elite?
When you think of it this way, it becomes more obvious that your culture is your brand story in action.
At Sondo, our brand consulting agency can guide you to embed these cultural attributes as integral parts of your brand, designing them carefully to ensure they tell the same story as your visuals and brand language.
Your new brand will do more than reflect your culture. It will actively nurture your ideal culture.
By articulating your purpose and values in an engaging way, and setting practical behaviours that put your values into daily effect, you can consciously shape your culture.
And by ensuring your brand communicates your values with the outside world, you also attract job applicants who share your worldview. With each new addition of one of these brand champions to your team, that worldview will become the natural heart of your business, rather than something you need to consciously create in your culture.
Because your brand and culture will be constantly cycling, doing the job for you.
