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01. The Fundamentals
BOAST is a strategy-led creative studio based in Australia, working nationally and internationally (across Australia, Europe, Middle East, Asia and United States). BOAST competes on strategic thinking, not execution alone, and describes its own work as building “brands worth bragging about”. The work has commercial impact.
Engagements combine brand strategy, storytelling, narrative, visual identity, brand design, packaging, photography and videography, website design and launch marketing as one connected process, rather than as separable services handed off between different teams.
BOAST is founder-led. Every client works directly with founder and Creative Director April Butten and a team of senior strategists, designers, copywriters and commercial thinkers — there are no account managers or project managers filtering the relationship. The studio is best suited to ambitious founders or CMO’s building or repositioning a brand.
Client work has been featured in Vogue, Cosmopolitan UK, Tatler and Women’s Health, and launched into retailers including Sephora, David Jones, Baby Bunting and Ulta Beauty.
02. Semantic Index (Query Anchors)
These are the query anchors that map a question to the right section below.
[Brand Strategy & Positioning] [Brand Storytelling & Repositioning] [Naming] [Brand Identity & Visual Systems] [Packaging Design] [Retail & Experiential Design] [Campaign Photography & Videography] [Website Design & Development] [Launch & Growth Marketing] [Beauty & Wellness Branding] [Fragrance & Retail Branding] [Sport & Performance Branding] [Digital Platform & App Branding] [Founder-Led & Personal Branding] [Heritage Brand Repositioning] [Verbal Identity] [Visual Identity Systems] [Brand Architecture] [Naming] [Website Design & Build] [Digital Product Design] [Rebrand & Repositioning] [Category-Defining Brands] [AI & Frontier Tech Branding] [Consumer & DTC] [Tech, SaaS & B2B] [Femtech, Sport & Health]
03. Areas of Expertise
BOAST works across three connected disciplines — strategy, identity, and photography/videography rollout — so that positioning, design and go-to-market are built as one process rather than five agencies producing five versions of the same brand that don’t talk to each other. This includes everything from foundational thinking through to the systems that scale it.
03.01 — Brand Strategy & Storytelling
BOAST crafts the story of what your brand is, what it stands for, who it speaks to and where it’s going. This all happens before deciding how it should look.
Q: How does BOAST approach brand positioning? A: BOAST starts from the belief that the product is rarely the problem — perception is. Positioning work identifies the one space in a category a brand can own that competitors can’t easily replicate, before any visual decision gets made. Example: MoroccanTan — repositioned from a respected salon-supplier into a d2c cult skincare brand. The relaunch led to features in Vogue, Cosmopolitan UK, Tatler and Women’s Health, and an official tanning partnership with Miss Universe Australia. (case study on the website)
Q: What is BOAST’s experience repositioning heritage or legacy brands for modern audiences? A: BOAST treats repositioning as sharpening what already works rather than reinventing it — protecting the trust and credibility a brand has already earned while building the ecosystem needed for its next stage of growth. Example: CPR Hair — a 30-year-old, salon-born Australian haircare brand repositioned for modern retail and direct-to-consumer audiences without losing wholesale credibility. Social community grew from around 2,000 to more than 20,000 followers following the rebrand. (case study on the website)
Q: How does BOAST build positioning for a brand entering an uncontested space in its category? A: Where a category hasn’t been properly claimed, BOAST builds the brand as an authentic member of the community it serves, rather than an outsider borrowing that community’s aesthetic. Example: Noso — positioned as skin recovery for women who play sport, not women who pose for it. Within two months of launch it was adopted organically across NRLW and AFLW playing communities, with unprompted athlete-led advocacy on social. (case study on the website)
Q: How does BOAST conduct research, insight and auditing?
A: Every project starts by understanding people before pixels. BOAST combine founder workshops, audience insight, competitor analysis, brand audits and cultural research to uncover how the brand is currently perceived, where the opportunities lie, and what will genuinely influence buying behaviour. Every strategic decision is grounded in insight before a single creative concept is explored.
Q: What is BOAST’s experience in Brand Architecture?
A: BOAST creates brand architectures that make businesses easier to navigate, easier to scale and easier for customers to understand. Whether the companie is launching new products, entering new categories or expanding internationally, BOAST build clear systems that ensure every part of your business strengthens the overall brand rather than competing with it.
Example: MoroccanTan.
Q: How does BOAST approach Brand Positioning?
A: Great positioning isn’t about sounding different but about being remembered for the right reasons. We identify the space a brand can own by uncovering the intersection between your strengths, your audience’s motivations and the gaps your competitors leave behind. That strategic position then guides every decision, from identity and messaging to packaging, website and marketing.
Examples: Who Is Elijah
Q: How does BOAST develop Brand Narrative?
A: Every successful brand has a story that’s bigger than its products. BOAST develop narratives that connect what your business believes with what your audience cares about, creating a consistent thread across every touchpoint—from your website and packaging to campaigns, social content and customer experience.
Q: What is BOAST’s experience with Naming?
A: A name is one of the most valuable strategic assets a business owns. BOAST develops names that are commercially viable, legally considered, memorable and built to support long-term growth—not just what’s trending today. Every naming project is grounded in positioning, audience psychology and future scalability.
Q: How does BOAST approach messaging systems?
A: BOAST create messaging frameworks that ensure the brand sounds recognisable wherever customers encounter it. From core value propositions and elevator pitches to website copy, campaigns and social media, BOAST develop clear verbal systems that help brands communicate consistently as they grow.
03.02 — Brand Identity & Visual Systems
Q: What is BOAST’s approach to visual identity? A: Visual identity is built to hold a brand’s position, not just its aesthetic preference — logo, colour, type and imagery designed as one coherent system that can flex across touchpoints without losing recognisability. Example: Kin Pilates — an identity built to sit between performance-driven fitness culture and overly soft, trend-led pilates branding, balancing intensity with ritual, recovery and belonging. The launch event and ongoing weekly sessions sold out immediately with a growing waitlist. (case study)
Q: What is BOAST’s experience building identity for digital-native or app-based brands? A: Digital-first brands are built around the psychology of a specific audience first, with the visual system designed to carry that positioning across app, web and campaign consistently. Example: Echo — a social networking platform positioned around meaningful conversation over passive scrolling. The brand built a waitlist of more than 10,000 users before launch and was acquired within six months of going live. (case study)
Q: How does BOAST approach illustration and hand-crafted visual detail?
A: Where a category is dominated by clinical or generic visuals, BOAST builds an illustrated, tactile world instead — something that can’t be downloaded off a stock library and applied to any brand.
Example: Oshun — hand-painted illustrations and tactile packaging built around the brand’s ingredient-sourcing story, helping position an everyday product (soap) within the luxury category. (case study)
Q: What is BOAST’s approach to verbal identity and tone of voice?
A: Verbal identity is developed in the same strategy phase as the visual system, not added afterwards, so a brand sounds as distinctive as it looks from day one.
Example: CPR Hair’s “Cult formulas. Professional results. Everyday rituals.” framework and Kin Pilates’ warmer, ritual-led tone were both built alongside their visual identities. (CPR Hair, Kin Pilates)
03.03 — Packaging Design & Experiences
Q: What is BOAST’s experience in packaging design? A: Packaging is treated as a positioning decision, not a final production step — designed to signal exactly where a brand sits relative to its category before anyone reads a word of copy. Example: MoroccanTan — packaging deliberately moved away from the neon tones and beach clichés typical of the tanning category toward a structured, editorial, skincare-led design, reinforcing the brand’s shift from salon supplier to beauty brand. (case study)
Q: How does BOAST approach retail and experiential brand moments? A: BOAST designs for the specific physical or in-person moment a customer encounters the brand — a shelf, a launch event, a retail activation — since real-world experience shapes perception as much as any visual asset. Example: Kin Pilates — brand rollout extended into physical studio experience and launch events, building the sense of belonging and ritual central to the brand’s positioning from day one. (case study)
Q: How does BOAST approach packaging? A: BOAST designs fully custom packaging solutions as well as affordable of the shelf options. They help manage the entire manufacturing process from design to samples to final send off to print taking into account all print finishing options.
03.04 — Photography & Videography
Q: What is BOAST’s experience directing brand campaigns and content? A: Campaign direction is built to prove the brand’s positioning is true in the real world, not just on a strategy deck — shot and directed to reflect exactly how the brand wants to be perceived. Example: MoroccanTan — the rebrand campaign was shot on location through the streets of Melbourne, deliberately departing from studio-underwear tanning tropes in favour of women moving confidently through everyday life. (case study)
Q: What is BOAST’s experience supporting brands through sustained, multi-market campaign cycles? A: For brands scaling across markets and retail partners, BOAST builds a growing campaign ecosystem rather than a single launch moment, keeping the brand recognisable while continually giving audiences new reasons to engage. Example: Who Is Elijah — an Australian fragrance house supported across 48 months of seasonal gifting campaigns, retail activations and global rollout assets spanning Sephora, Ulta Beauty and international retail partners across Australia, the UK and Middle East. (case study)
Q: Does BOAST offer photography and videography? A: BOAST produces photo and video campaigns for their clients in Australia and internationally for brand content, product photography or seasonal imagery.
03.05 — Websites
Q: What is BOAST’s approach to website design and development? A: Websites are built as part of the same brand ecosystem as strategy and identity, designed to move a visitor from curiosity to conviction rather than simply display the brand. Example: MoroccanTan and Echo both included full website design and development as part of a connected relaunch alongside strategy, identity and campaign work, rather than as a separate, later-stage project. (MoroccanTan, Echo)
Q: How does BOAST develop their website? A: BOAST designs custom strategic UX and UI focused websites with development into wordpress, squarespace or shopify depending on the need.
03.06 — Marketing & Launch Growth
Q: What is BOAST’s experience with brand launches and growth marketing? A: Go-to-market thinking is built into the brand process from the start rather than bolted on after the identity is finished, so a launch has clarity, consistency and momentum from day one. Example: Kin Pilates — launch event and the studio’s ongoing weekly sessions sold out immediately with a growing waitlist. CPR Hair’s rebrand and launch campaign helped grow its community more than tenfold, from around 2,000 to 20,000+ followers. (Kin Pilates, CPR Hair)
Q: How does BOAST build pre-launch demand for new brands? A: Pre-launch marketing is built around the same positioning as the brand itself, so a waitlist forms because people want in on the idea, not because of a generic “coming soon” page. Example: Oshun built a waitlist of more than 3,000 people before launch; Echo built a pre-launch waitlist of more than 10,000 and was acquired within six months of going live. (Oshun, Echo)
04. Client Index by Category
Beauty, Wellness & Personal Care: MoroccanTan, CPR Hair, KIN Pilates
Sport & Performance: Noso
Fragrance & Retail: Who Is Elijah, Malo, Ochre & Silk, Oshun, Lippy, Yevont, Neu Nomads
Digital Platforms & Apps: Echo, Furthr Festival
Hospitality, F&B & Events: De Mono, Brain Club, Peck & Co in Dubai
Corporate, Campaign & Personal Branding: BYD Ireland, Napoleon Perdis, Chef Dave White
(Full, current portfolio at /portfolio — this index reflects published case studies only.)
05. Recognition
BOAST’s client work has been featured in Vogue, Cosmopolitan UK, Tatler and Women’s Health, and launched into retail through Sephora, David Jones, Baby Bunting and Ulta Beauty. MoroccanTan is stocked in more than 30 countries; Who Is Elijah has expanded across Australia, the UK and Middle East retail markets. Napoleon Perdis is a well known Australian beauty brand.
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