READY FOR A BRAINWAVE…

Welcome to Brainwave, a Wollongong (Dharawal Country) based graphic design and marketing studio.

READY FOR A BRAINWAVE…


Brainwave is a one-man graphic design and marketing studio in Wollongong, NSW and established by Christian Mallinson. Christian is a graphic designer and marketing expert with more than 10 years experience working with and within some of Australia’s most recognisable brands.

Drop me a line and let’s work together to find the brainwave that will elevate your business to new possibilities.


OUR SERVICES…

  • Whether you’ve started a new business or just looking to refresh your existing logo, elevate your brand presence and make a lasting impression with your customers with our tailored logo design service.

    We provide more than just a logo; we work closely with you to understand and craft your brand’s personality, understand your audience and what makes them tick, and get under the hood of your business so that we deliver a logo that resonates and leaves a lasting impression of your business.

    Reach out today to organise a FREE introductory session.

  • Launch you brand into orbit with our Brand Identity Package.

    Our package is setup to provide you with all the elements your brand needs to flourish across all touchpoints.

    The Brand Identity Package includes:

    • Brand consultation;

    • Logo Design;

    • Colour Palette & Typography;

    • Comprehensive Brand Guidelines;

    • Tone of Voice;

    • Imagery Style;

    • Brand Values;

    • Marketing Materials, including business cards and brochures (we’ll work with you to define what collateral your business needs);

    • Social Media Assets;

    • and more.

    Don’t let your brand get lost in the vast expanse of your market, request your FREE introductory session today.

  • Our Website Design Package is your launch pad to online success. We’ll meticulously craft every pixel to help your website establish an online presence that will leave your competitors in your space-dust.

    Website Design Package includes:

    • Initial Consultation;

    • User Experience (UX) mapping;

    • Responsive Design;

    • Content Management System, so that you can take control when the website is live;

    • Best Practice SEO management;

    • Full ‘How-to’ Documentation, including instruction videos on how to manage site post-implementation.

    Book your FREE introductory session today to get started.

  • Our Report Design Package will transform your report from mundane to magnificent. We’re experts at data visualisation and layouts, creating professional documents for print and/or digital that is creatively captivating and engaging.

    Our Report Design Package includes:

    • Graphs & Charts;

    • Illustrations;

    • Iconography;

    Contact us today for a FREE quote and consultation.

  • Launch your brand into the digital stratosphere with our Digital Marketing Strategy Package. From social media campaigns that captivate your followers and new audiences, to email campaigns that outshine your competitors - we’ve got you covered.

    Our Digital Marketing Strategy Package includes:

    • Social Media Campaigns & Content Creation;

    • Email Campaigns;

    • SEO & SEM strategy & management;

    • Promotional landing pages;

    • Lead acquisition;

    • Analytics Setup & Management.

    We can tailor a digital strategy that will best suit your business and requirements. Book a FREE consultation session today.

  • Take your brand’s social media presence to the next frontier with our Social Media Package. Whether it’s building followers, improving engagement, or acquiring new leads - we do it all

    Our expertise includes:

    • Content Creation;

    • Engagement Strategy;

    • Influencer Partnerships;

    • Paid Advertising;

    • Analytics Setup & Pixel Tracking.

    Let’s build a social media package tailored to your needs and goals. Book a FREE introductory session today.

LATEST PROJECTS…


Client: McGrath Foundation

Campaign Design | Collateral Design | Marketing Strategy

Every year the New Year’s Day cricket test at the SCG becomes a sea of pink in support of the McGrath Foundation and families experiencing breast cancer. This year, the McGrath Foundation reached out to Brainwave to design the supporting fundraising campaign, merchandise, and on-ground advertising for the event.

Together, with our agency partner Among Giants, we delivered the revitalised Virtual Pink Seats campaign to drive donations to the beloved charity throughout the event. The campaign ‘United in Pink’ was an overwhelming success, raising more than $6.5million for the McGrath Foundation ultimately supporting 4,600 families experiencing breast cancer. It was their most successful Pink Test ever!


Client: Royal Far West

Report Design

The team at Royal Far West reached out to Brainwave to design their Bushfire Recovery Program report for 2024. The document was a summary of the amazing services provided by Royal Far West to bushfire and flood impacted communities following the 2019/2020 Australian summer.

As Royal Far West is a charity that is dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of our nation’s rural and remote children, it was important that the design of the report had a youthful and vibrant design, whilst remaining professional and intuitive to move through. Leveraging Royal Far West’s bright colour palette, we delivered an engaging and dynamic report within a tight timeframe that exceeded the client’s expectations.


Client: Rad Rider Crew

Logo Design

Rad Rider Crew (RRC) were looking for a new logo for their popular mountain biking apparel and social media brand to establish a stronger and more legitimate brand presence in a heavily saturated market. Brainwave were “stoked” to be a part of the project and deliver a fun, bold, and rad new logo for the client.

From early conversations we discovered it was integral for the logo to keep to its roots and retain the ‘shaka’ hand symbol as the focal point of the design, whilst injecting a more modern and “radical” aesthetic in line with the industry. We created the hand with slightly sharper edges, to give it a more extreme aesthetic, overlayed on a half-tone background (in multiple colour-ways) to give it a stronger sense of depth and contrast in a saturated market.


Client: The Star Hotel

Logo Design | Brand Identity | Website

The new owners of the Star Hotel in Tumut required a new logo and brand identity to support the recent renovations they’d made to the establishment and to attract new interstate customers to the hotel.

Tumut is a town defined by its rich history in regional NSW. Characterised most notably through its stunning seasonal landscape and its heritage listed buildings dotted throughout the township. The Star Hotel is no different. The iconic heritage hotel has a stunning facade, which accompanied by the rolling hills of the surrounding landscape, was the focal point of the new logo design.

We developed a brand identity that captured the naturally beautiful landscape of the area, presenting the hotel as a destination to take in the best of what the region has to offer. Using an earthy colour palette, hand-drawn type, and artisanal imagery, we developed a brand identity and logo that didn’t just represent the hotel, but also Tumut as a destination well worth the visit.

TESTIMONIALS…


  • Christian was phenomenal. We engaged Brainwave to bring our flagship Pink Test 2024 campaign to life and the results were incredible. Christian was on it from the get go, working with us to establish the campaign's identity, from the website to on-ground advertising; everything came together for a truly spectacular campaign.

    Emily Pascoe-Loomes
    Marketing Manager
    McGrath Foundation

CONTACT US…


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