Starting with our strategic planning process, we’re keen to understand your world. Our model is built on immersion, collaboration and iteration. Now, more than ever before, it’s easier to start and scale a business to stratospheric heights. Whilst this might sound like apocalyptic doom and gloom, we believe it’s a super exciting time for entrepreneurs, challenger brands and agents of change to start-up, scale up and reboot their brands for the better. This model is unsustainable, it’s broken, and something has to give. We’re also noticing the bigger shifts in retail, where the race to the bottom is killing competition, reducing brand owner margins and screwing suppliers out of a living. Instead of growth through innovation or reinvention, we see greater veracity of restructures, mergers and acquisitions in an attempt to not only stay relevant but to cut costs in order to return unattainable year-on-year profits to shareholders. Creation of social or environmental wealth is an uncomfortable subject for them. With business models driven solely by the creation of shareholder wealth, they were built for a world that no longer exists. We live in a world of disruption. Everything is changing, and big brands have the most to lose.

Our purpose is to help you change your brand for the better. This has included start-ups, scale-ups, and of course, those bigger brands in need of a reboot. Since Hunter began in 2010, we’ve helped create over a billion dollars worth of value for our clients. We help simplify, humanise & connect the next generation of consumer-facing brands for the modern world. Creative branding agency for entrepreneurs, challenger brands & agents of change. Eat Drink Design Awards, Baker D.Top Design Agencies in Melbourne Hunter - Best Design Agency Melbourne.AGDA Pinnacle Award, Gertrude Contemporary.Hong Kong Design Centre Awards, No Name Station.AGDA Distinction Awards, Lab 14, Spatial Design.AGDA Distinction Awards, 101 Collins Street, End of Trip Facilities, Spatial Design.ESDG, Merit Award, W Shanghai Entry Installation.Eat Drink Design Awards, High Commendation, Best Identity Design, Kisumé.Eat Drink Design Awards, Best Identity Design, Jackalope.AGDA Distinction Awards, Doot Doot Doot, Branding Small Business.AGDA Distinction Awards, Jackalope, Environmental Design.AGDA Distinction Awards, Jackalope, Wayfinding Signage and Environmental Graphics.AGDA Distinction Awards, Flaggerdoot, Branding Small Business.AGDA Distinction Awards, Flaggerdoot, Environmental Design.AGDA Distinction Awards, Doot Doot Doot, Environmental Design.AGDA Pinnacle Award, QT Melbourne, Environmental Design.AGDA Pinnacle Award, Studio of the Year.Australian Book Designers Association, Best Designed Cookbook, Pidapipo: Gelato Eight Days a Week.SEGD Merit Award, W Shanghai, Lighting Installation.AGDA Distinction Awards, W Geoff Handbury Science and Technology Hub at Melbourne Grammar, Wayfinding, Signage and Environmental Graphics.AGDA Distinction Awards, 85 Spring, Print.

AGDA Distinction Awards, Mecca Max, Packaging.

AGDA Distinction Awards, W Brisbane, Environmental Design.

AGDA Distinction Awards, W Shanghai, Environmental Design.

AGDA Pinnacle Award, W Shanghai, Permanent Installation.

Restaurant and Bar Design Awards, Best Ceiling Design, Doot Doot Doot.

AHEAD Asia Best Overall Visual Identity, Jackalope.

SEGD Merit Award, Jackalope, Placemaking and Identity.

SEGD Honor Award, Arup Melbourne, Wayfinding.

AGDA Distinction Awards, Arup Melbourne, Wayfinding, Signage and Environmental Graphics.

AGDA Pinnacle Award, One Wellington, Print.

AHEAD Global Best Visual Identity, Jackalope.

Overseeing the studio’s creative process across offices in Melbourne, Hong Kong and Dubai, Fabio continues to pursue excellence and innovation in creative design. His carefully considered, highly creative process has resulted in a portfolio of work that has elevated clients including ACCA, Gertrude Contemporary, Jackalope Group, Kisumé, Mecca Cosmetica, W Shanghai and many more to the forefront of cultural influence. Fabio champions the unique cultures of brands, which he believes should form the basis of their individual narratives. One of Australia’s preeminent creatives, Fabio’s work has been featured in leading publications internationally, including Creative (London), Eye (London), Grafik (London), and IDEA (Tokyo), as well as the Phaidon publication Area alongside the work of the world’s most innovative graphic designers.

Under his leadership, Studio Ongarato has garnered global recognition for design excellence and was appointed AGDA Studio of the Year in 2017. For over twenty-five years, Co-Founder and Creative Director Fabio Ongarato has led his studio to create impactful art direction, branding and environmental outcomes.

Melbourne graphic design studio