About us

we’re marmalade, a passionately small creative studio, positioned perfectly between large-scale agency expertise and freelance agility.

We work with brands, agencies and friends seeking flexibility, consistency, and impactful storytelling, across brand, digital and content.

marmalade is a trusted creative partner, ready to bring your brand vision to life. Whether its photography, video, brand, digital & print design and more.

— we do it all, and we love what we do.

our story

In 2019, we stepped out of the world of freelancing and jumped headfirst into building a studio that reflects our shared values: honesty, simplicity, and a deep love for great creative work.

What started as a simple passion for telling visual stories has grown into a creative studio where each project becomes a partnership, crafted thoughtfully and collaboratively. Whether it’s a shoot for a national campaign, a creative microsite for an international business, or an intimate brand launch for a local business - we’re all in—just us, our clients, and a shared goal of making something we’re really proud of.

Meet the founders

Liz

As a creative producer with years of experience in advertising, Liz’s expertise covers everything from brand campaigns to social content and OOH. She’s a problem solver with an eye for detail, always making sure productions run smoothly from start to finish.

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Matt

Matt is an art director, designer and photographer, Matt adds value to businesses across multiple creative disciplines, striving to solve; searching for the right answer to the right question through creative direction, strategic thinking, and user centred design.

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How we like to work

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    We operate in small teams

    The core requirement for a project to be successful is a simple, agile team made of the right people to do a great job. Nothing more, nothing less. We start each project with just the two of us, only bringing in additional team members if and when they are needed. Small teams pave the way for quick decisions, great communication and smart ideas.

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    We create with kindness

    Kindness is free. It costs nothing, and we’re all capable of making it a non-negotiable in the way we work. We are people people, and over the years we’ve built good connections and relationships with talented people from all walks of life. We’re open, honest, we pay on time and treat people fairly. What goes around comes around, and we reckon this philosophy results in the best work.

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    We're not wasters

    We’ve both experienced first hand the amount of waste creative projects can produce - wasting time, money, resource, people, energy - so we try to be ruthlessly efficient in everything we do. And we’re constantly tweaking and refining our processes to enable us to be just that. Too often people mistake action for progress, but we like to keep it simple, consider our options and make smart decisions to move projects forward.

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    We're interested in our clients, not Cannes

    Unless you count swimming badges or karting trophies, neither of us have won an award in our lives. And we’re okay with that. It’s not a metric of success for us. We have no ulterior motive here, we’re not doing this work to put us on the map. We are much more interested in working with our clients to deliver work that we’re all proud of, and having a bloody great time whilst doing it.

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    We keep it real

    We believe the best creative work comes from big ideas working alongside an awareness of reality; creative and production working hand in hand and pushing each other throughout the whole process. Keeping our ideas grounded in reality with a holistic awareness of the job at hand means we never lose sight of the outcome and are able to produce work that works really hard for our clients.

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    We compromise in the right places

    There’s no point being cheap if the final product isn’t up to scratch. There’s no point creating an incredible product that costs the earth and you resent because it wasn’t worth it, in the end. Quality and value are equally important, and we are focussed on creating the best work we possibly can and making compromises in the right places to bring value to every project.

Let’s work together.

We’re here for brands that value collaboration, honesty, and creativity. If you’re looking for a creative partner that treats your vision like their own, get in touch, and let’s make something great together.