Meet The Team
If you want a high quality, effective design service, you've come to the right place. We may be a team of just three, but don't let our size fool you. We are exceptionally skilled, highly specialised and consummately professional and between us, have 32 years' in the design business.
What gets us out of our separate beds in the morning (we're close, but not that close) is turning your ideas into gorgeous creative concepts that tell your business story, your way. Through elegant graphic design, sophisticated yet simple web site development, jaw-dropping videography or something as essential as supporting your business functions, we promise — hands on hearts — that we'll go the extra kilometre for you.
Amanda Woods
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
The force behind Amanda Woods Design, Amanda lives and breathes design, and probably eats it for breakfast too. Her forte is logo design and branding — and she has the international portfolio to prove it.
Humbly boasting work on magazines of the calibre of Home Beautiful, Cosmopolitan, Prevention and Bride to Be, Amanda is also much sought after for rebranding and advertising projects for real estate agents, health and beauty brands, the trades and florists and more. Creating a strong visual narrative is what she does best. And who are we to stop her?
Always the innovator, she uses design to ensure businesses standout from their competitors, drawing on and combining pencil, painting and graphics to illustrate the essence of a brand. Unique? Innovative? Artistic? Amanda is all this, and more.
In a nutshell: Amanda loves working with businesses to tell their story in powerful ways through eye-catching design, stand-out logos and memorable branding.
Education: Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design, Advertising and Illustration
Likes: Exploring new cultures, painting, playing the piano, her furbaby Lola
Dislikes: Poor design, Fiverr, sharks
Ninja talent: Collaborator extraordinaire. Amanda has brought together a talented team of design professionals who are committed to being the design wind beneath your business wings.
Ryan Magill
WORKSTREAM SPECIALIST & VIDEOGRAPHER
Ryan is our Workstream Specialist with a special affinity, nay love, for Excel and numbers. When he’s not busy reaping the rewards from the business he built through networking marketing, he sets up the back end functionality of websites and automates them, which is super handy for us.
What sets Ryan apart, and makes him such a valuable and unique member of our team, is his ability to simplify the complex for our clients. He can map out a process, using his ex-ray vision to see where the strengths and weaknesses are, and then streamline the system so it’s more profitable. If it’s a fit for our clients, Ryan uses technology to automate processes wherever he can.
Ryan also free falls into world of sales and marketing at every opportunity, unafraid to ask the big questions like: How are you measuring success? And: is this the best performing channel or platform for your marketing efforts? Or: What ROI are you getting on your marketing spend?
In a nutshell: Ryan’s mission in life is to help you become more effective and profitable through the adoption of workable systems and processes that maximise efficiency.
Education: Bachelor of Business, majoring in Accounting
Likes: Chilling out with the family dogs, playing guitar and the occasional bout of yoga
Dislikes: Inefficiency, people not recycling, anchovies
Ninja talent: Turning water into wine. Actually, it’s learning new skills and solving problems, but we didn’t think anyone would believe us if we said miracle worker.
Adam Little
WEBSITE DESIGNER
With more than 17 years’ industry experience, Adam is a versatile designer who has worked with some of the biggest names in the business, including Unilever, NRMA, American Express and the Queensland Government. If you think he’s out of your league, don’t worry — he’ll happily work with businesses of all shapes, sizes and budgets. If you have an idea, Adam has a design solution.
Adam’s day job is Website and User-interface Designer, which is code for Making Magic Happen For His Clients. We love that he draws on his know-how as a business development manager in a past life to provide insightful advice on all things design and marketing. Adam’s versatility and knowledge make him a crucial and integral cog in our design team wheel.
On the side, Adam operates an app development company that builds their own physics engine. No, we don’t know what that is either, but it sounds impressive.
In a nutshell: Adam goes the extra kilometre to produce beautifully designed websites that guarantee a seamless user experience, for a surprisingly reasonable price.
Education: Advanced Diploma in Multimedia Design
Likes: Hanging out in nature with his family, burgers and beer, travelling, painting.
Dislikes: Tech issues, clutter, Crocs (as in those things they call shoes)
Ninja talent: International man of mystery. Adam hasn’t advertised his services in almost a decade. Work comes to him through recommendations and referrals — a testament to his professionalism. We’re so lucky we found him.
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