Frost*collective

It looks like we're building Lego. Really, we're building future Frost*.    We’re constantly looking at how we can improve – redesigning our business. We’ve grown in the past two years – a BIG part of this is our B Corp Certification, which is a huge source of pride. Off the back of this, we decided to update our brand and values. Simplifying them to their core. We’ve got a dynamic new website, too.    To celebrate, we spent a day together talking about how our future looks, what we’re working towards as a collective and how we’re going to do it. We’ve always been about solving problems with big ideas designed for real impact. Today, we’re even more focused on it than ever.    Vince Frost* Frost*collective Founder, CEO and ECD says, “I truly believe we can use creativity to solve some of the big problems our world faces today. We love working with like-minded businesses on projects that will benefit the environmental and people. Creativity has got us into this mess. And creativity will get us out. Updating our brand, values and purpose for 2023 has been about fine tuning what we’ve always done.”    Click the link below to head to our dynamic new website to learn more about how we’re designing a better world. https://lnkd.in/gXrHV4eJ   Thanks to CTRL Media for the video of the day. 

We’ve created an intuitive wayfinding system for one of Australia’s smartest buildings, Brisbane’s Heritage Lanes building at 80 Ann St, designed by long term collaborators Woods Bagot. Our work reflects the rich history and character of the precinct using the architectural gesture of the ground plane travertine ‘ribbon’ to integrate signage and pathways around the site, including the heritage-listed Turbot Street Market.    The project’s $863m 35-level office tower is a world-class example that embraces leading technology, sustainability and design.    Click through to see how it creates a seamless and generously open new space in the city’s public realm: https://lnkd.in/g62QR54g

“It’s always, for me, connected back to cities and spaces and how things function and what the role of the city is in terms of the language of our lives.”    Michael Stott has spent over 25 years crafting narratives for cities around the world, considering how they can be made better for the people who inhabit them. As Head of Cities and Places, Masterplanning & Urban Design at DBI Consultants, one of Australia’s foremost multidisciplinary design practices, he’s at the forefront of Brisbane’s evolution as a global city in time for the 2032 Olympics.    Stott grew up in the picturesque Vancouver seaside communities of Whiterock and West Vancouver, and he credits his childhood exploring the vast landscapes of his home country with setting the tone for his life. And his fascination with balancing the scale of small and big when it comes to shaping cities.    Listen in wherever you get your podcasts as Vince and Michael discuss; how embracing local culture can help you feel at home, the influence of legendary architect Lord Richard Rogers and the UK’s Urban Renaissance and why Istanbul is one of his favourite cities in the world. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/gaYHUFxn

Are you passionate about cities and places? An Account Director keen to work in an award-winning team on some of the most exciting projects in Australia, the UK and Asia? We’re looking for you! We have an amazing opportunity in our client service team. Click through to learn more: https://lnkd.in/gBgbWVwv

“Suddenly everything I said and everything I had been researching for years ended up on the front page of newspapers.” Professor Frederik Anseel is the newly appointed Dean of the UNSW Business School and an expert in what works, and what doesn’t, in business. He’s spent his career researching organisational psychology. It’s this combination of the study of management and psychology that changed from a very niche field to one of wide-spread interest during the COVID pandemic.    Anseel grew up in a small town 15 minutes from the French border in Belgium, where education, even university, is free for all. One side of his family are engineers, the other teachers. It’s clear how his upbringing has defined his view of life, value of education, and area of academia.    Listen in wherever you get your podcasts as Vince Frost and Frederik discuss; how the 2008 GFC shifted the narrative for the hero CEO paradigm, the art of getting office politics right and the surprising origins of the Type A personality. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/gaYHUFxn

Our Founder, CEO and ECD, Vince Frost, has been named as one of just four INDESIGN Luminaries worldwide as part of the INDE.Awards for 2024.    The award recognises excellence in a career in design and celebrates the ongoing contribution of industry icons. It recognises Vince as a leader in design and pays tribute to his vision and the impact of his creativity around the world.  Congratulations to all of this year’s Luminaries; Brit Andresen, Colin Seah and Shimul Javeri Kadri. Click through to order Issue #91 of INDESIGN, guest-edited by SJB Director Adam Haddow, online, and read about these incredible creatives and how their work impacts the world of design and beyond: https://lnkd.in/g5hm9B8t

We’re driving local innovation to the global market with our new brand for Uber Carshare. Helping reduce Australia’s carbon footprint by putting idle cars to better use. When Uber acquired Car Next Door, the Australian car sharing company, they needed help positioning their new car-sharing product with a global brand to achieve rapid growth. We knew we needed to bring clarity to what was a complex brand architecture problem. To shape this new brand, we conducted research looking to answer two key questions; What is the benefit of using car sharing services? Which brand is perceived more likely to deliver on this benefit? Click through to read the full case study: https://lnkd.in/gsuCVMbe

“I was already beginning investigate and look at what the future of magazines and publishing was.”    In the 80s, Jeremy Leslie would catch the bus over to Notting Hill from the London College of Design to visit the Stiff Records shop. Originally, he was there for the music, but it was the storytelling in the design that made a lasting impression.    Leslie is an internationally recognised creative who’s been making magazines for over four decades. He’s also the founder of magCulture, the iconic London magazine shop. After having his eyes opened to the world of design by a thoughtful art teacher, he’s gone on to art direct quarterlies, monthlies and weeklies, and spent the noughties developing award-winning magazines at John Brown Publishing.    He’s written four books about editorial design, and in 2018 was awarded the Mark Boxer Award by the British Society of Magazine Editors for services to the magazine industry.    Listen in wherever you get your podcasts as Vince and Jeremy discuss the legendary English graphic artist Barney Bubbles, their favourite magazines of the 90s (The Face and i-D), and how the independent print scene has been empowered by digital and the internet. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/gaYHUFxn

Congratulations to our friends at Sydney Film Festival on their 2024 program!    Building on the brand platform we created for the festival in 2023, we’ve evolved our original concept for the second year of our four-year term.     Click through to ‘See It Your Way’, see what’s on and buy tickets: https://lnkd.in/gwPuJAwt

Congratulations to Sydney Film Festival on what was a fantastic opening night to this year's Festival! We are honoured and excited to be the Festival's official brand partner again for 2024 and have loved working behind the scenes with the SFF team to bring all aspects of the brand to life and evolve it from the identity we designed last year. Hats off to the entire SFF team for putting on a hell of a show and bringing the world's best films to the people of Sydney. Tickets are selling out fast. Head to the link below to See It Your Way. Joshua Forward Frances Wallace, CPCC Nashen Moodley Darren Dale Harry Windsor Nicole Cadelina Hannah Dockrill