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North & Frame
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Brand & web studio — Melbourne + remote

For companies that have outgrown their first logo.

North & Frame designs brand identities and websites for founders who want to look as serious as the work they already do. Strategy first, then design, then a build that actually ships.

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34brands shipped since 2019
6 wksaverage engagement
9 / 10clients return or refer
Trusted by Alderwood Fieldnote Husk Ceramics Paloma Labs Meridian & Co Verve Supply
Services

Four ways in. One standard of finish.

Fixed-scope engagements with a named price floor — no mystery day rates, no scope soup. Every project ships with the files, the guidelines and the handover.

01from A$6,500

Brand identity

A complete identity system built off a real strategy workshop — not a logo lottery.

  • Positioning & strategy workshop
  • Logo suite, colour & type system
  • Brand guidelines & asset kit
02from A$9,000

Web design & build

Marketing sites designed and built by the same two people — nothing lost in handoff.

  • UX, content architecture & copy support
  • Custom design system, no templates
  • Hand-coded or CMS build, launch included
03from A$12,000

Product & UX

Interface design for software teams that need craft without hiring a design department.

  • UX audits & design sprints
  • Interface systems & component libraries
  • Dev-ready specs and handover
04from A$3,500/mo

Design retainer

A reserved lane of senior design time for teams who ship every week.

  • Reserved monthly hours, 48-hour turnaround lane
  • Rolling roadmap, monthly review
  • Pause or scale with 30 days’ notice
Selected work

Recent projects, start to shipped.

Four engagements from the last two years. Every one began with the same question: what does this company need to be taken seriously?

A ALDERWOOD

Alderwood Vineyards

2025
Identity · Packaging · Label system
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Fieldnote

2026
Web design · Build · Design system
HUSK

Husk Ceramics

2025
Identity · E-commerce · Art direction
PALOMA LABS

Paloma Labs

2024
Brand · Product UI · Pitch collateral
Process

Six weeks, four steps, no fog.

You always know which week you're in, what we owe you, and what we need from you. The schedule is part of the deliverable.

01

Discover

Week 1

Stakeholder interviews, audit of what exists, and an honest read on where you sit against competitors.

02

Define

Week 2

Positioning, creative direction and a locked scope. You sign off a direction, not a surprise.

03

Design

Weeks 3–5

Identity and interface design in weekly rounds — you see work every Friday, not at the end.

04

Deliver

Week 6

Build, guidelines, source files and a recorded handover. Then thirty days of launch support.

Kind words

What clients say after the invoice.

Both quotes are reproduced in full, with permission — no ellipses doing heavy lifting.

They asked better questions than agencies four times their size — and the new site paid for itself within the quarter.
Mara EllisonFounder, Fieldnote
The rebrand did in three months what our sales deck couldn't do in two years. Distributors call us now.
Dan OkaforManaging director, Alderwood Vineyards
The studio

Small on purpose.

Two senior people do the work you hire us for. No account layer, no juniors learning on your budget, no handoffs into the void.

North & Frame started in 2019 when a brand designer and a design engineer kept getting hired to fix the same problem from opposite ends: brands that looked fine in a PDF and fell apart on the internet. We work as one team from strategy to shipped — which is why our identities survive contact with real websites, real decks and real packaging lines.

  • 01
    Strategy before styling. If we can't say who it's for and why they'd switch, we don't open a design tool.
  • 02
    Built, not just designed. Everything we design, we can ship — so nothing is designed that can't be.
  • 03
    Weekly work-in-progress. You see real work every Friday. Surprises are a process failure.
  • 04
    Finish properly. Guidelines, source files, recorded handover. You own the lot.

Who you'll work with

Rhea NavarroCreative director — identity, art direction, strategy
Tom WilderDesign engineer — UX, interface systems, build
Founded
2019
Based
Collingwood, Melbourne
Working
AEST · remote worldwide
Capacity
2 projects at a time
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Tell us where you're headed.

Three or four sentences is plenty. We reply to every enquiry within two business days — usually with two or three questions back.

  • Emailhello@northandframe.studio
  • Studio14 Easey St, Collingwood VIC
  • BookingNext opening — September 2026
  • ResponseWithin 2 business days