Language Design.™ Strategic thinking, influential communication. Language Design has a spectrum of applicationsand a flexible way of working, applying craft, passion and experienceon behalf of brands. Please get in touch to discuss your project.
[1]

We solve problems with words.

[2] Why

From brand strategy to packaging copy, we write to exert effective influence.

[3] Application
  • Brand Strategy & Storytelling
  • Verbal Identity & Brand Dialect
  • Product or Service Naming
  • Campaign Creative
  • External & Internal Comms
  • Long Form Copy
  • Speechwriting
  • Pitch Refinement
  • Packaging
  • Writing Workshops
[4] Engagement

Language Design is shaped to offer an agile, flexible and cost effective creative resource to our clients. Plug us into your internal team structure, or engage us as a discreet component. We specialise in writing, but offer full agency service through a network of visual design and production partners.

[5] Ambition

Language Design brings together principles of linguistics, design and hard-won commercial experience to achieve our clients’ creative and strategic ambitions.

[6] Clients

Telstra
YouTube AUNZ
YouTube SEA
Google AUNZ
Google Cloud
Foxtel
Event Hospitality Group
David Jones
Diageo
Blackdot
Sekisui House
Secret Sounds
Orchard St.

[7] Contact

mail@languagedesign.com.au

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Recent Work

YouTube AUNZ
Sales Tool
2021

Before they invest, customers need to understand and be inspired by what you’re offering.

Language Design created a three-part documentary about YouTube, to help advertisers understand the power and the passion of the world’s largest video streaming platform.

‘YouTube: The Lowdown’ followed an investigative journalist as she met the creators, the brands and the fans that make YouTube such an effective tool for audience engagement.

Google AUNZ
Virtual Event
2021

Data inspires when presented creatively.

The Museum of 2020 is a look back at the strangest year in living memory, and a way to engage Google’s business customers by making search trends real.

Each search trend was represented by an exhibit, full of data points turned into tangible artefacts. A guided tour of the museum turned out to be a highly engaging virtual event that informed and delighted Google AuNZ’s clients.

Alipay +
Verbal Identity
2021

The voice of Alipay+

When Ant Group were ready to bring a new mobile-first marketing and payment platform to market, Language Design was chosen to build its verbal identity.

Telstra
Verbal Identity
2020

Helping the iconic Australian company find its voice for the new decade.

After defining a distinctive verbal identity for Telstra, Language Design surveyed internal and external teams to design and deliver concise guidelines, training materials and workshops ensuring continuity of voice.

Now every communication, from billboard headline to email sign off, can reinforce Telstra’s purpose.

Secret Sounds
Brand Storytelling & Partnerships
2019

Helping Australia’s largest live music and festival business manage their brand partnerships.

Language Design developed long form content series, pre-, during and post- festival campaigns, and created the narrative for the country’s largest music research project to assist Secret Sounds connect their fanbase with major brand partners.

YouTube
Brand Storytelling & Speechwriting
2019

Helping YouTube share the passion of their audience and creators with the world.

Language Design developed a film series with real fans and some of Australia’s most popular creators, and brought the brand story to life writing live addresses to move an audience of thousands.

Foxtel
Brand Values
2019

Articulating a new set of values for Australia’s biggest entertainment company.

From boardroom to fan forum, Language Design worked with Foxtel to help understand and express the values that underpin the business.

To launch them to the world, we enlisted the help of a handful of die-hard fans.

QT Hotels
Brand Dialect & Storytelling
2020

Helping individuals recognise a like mind in QT Hotels.

Language Design worked with QT to establish a distinctive Brand Dialect, and now employs it to engage their audience in campaigns, on-site dialogue, partnerships and locally savvy web language across thirty venues in Australia and New Zealand.

With hundreds of thousands of words deployed (and counting) QT’s brand is elegantly reinforced from personal greeting to final full stop.

David Jones
Long-form Language
2020

Language Design specialises in researching and composing category specific long-form language, like this Beauty Editorial copy for David Jones