Oven has been built on hustle and creative ideas since 2008. The modern digital word moves fast so Oven does too, or opportunities are missed.
Overview
Oven Creative is a creative studio on the Gold Coast, focused on producing solutions for our clients that are exciting, beautiful and memorable.
We collaborate with our clients and let the designers deal directly with them, this way they become part of the creative process and a team focussed on the same goal.
History
Oven was founded in 2008 by our Creative Director Andy Harrison. With nearly 20 years of design experience Andy began his early years in the world of bromide cameras, dark rooms and Mac Classics. After working on the Gold Coast for several years he followed his passion for design to London where he worked under some of the most talented creatives in the UK. In that two and a half years he worked on some of the world’s largest company’s collateral and gained a lifetime of experience.
Back in Australia, Andy joined Turner Sands as creative director, which became one of the fastest growing advertising agencies on the Coast. With clients such as Cleanaway, Royal Brunei Airways, Gold Coast City Council and Griffith University. Turner Sands soon joined with the large independent national advertising agency Smart. This opened Andy up to a new group of clients, working on projects for Coke Zero, Appletiser, Night Owl, McDonalds and The Gold Coast Football Club. Working for the large corporates is a great experience but ideas and creative freedom tend to get lost in the long production line, hence Oven was born to get this freedom back.
Present
Oven is constantly growing and evolving, we’d like to think this is due to the quality of work we produce for our vast variety of clients. With clients in retail, construction, development, IT, finance and fashion we are lucky to have such diversity to apply our minds and skills to.
Oven is always on the lookout for new channels and ideas to help push our clients’ brands forward, and why not? This is what we get paid to do after all. Idea generation is not a 9 to 5 job, it’s a constant process, but very important to our client’s success and exciting for us when that great idea strikes. We realise a creative studio is only as good as it’s clients, so we want them to be the best they can be.
Our Process
Below is the formula we use to get the best result for every project we undertake, no matter what size or budget. If a job is worth doing it’s worth doing well, no exceptional!
1. Your idea & brief
We sit down and listen to your ideas and take in as much as we can about your business and goals. Information is the most important key to success.
2. Research & planning
We research your brand, your competition, your product and your position in the market to create a plan of attack to achieve the maximum result. All within your budget.
3. Concepts & presenting
The brainstorming begins and all possible avenues are explored. We then create visuals of the concepts and present and explain them to you.
4. Fine tuning & production
After a concept is agreed on we polish and refine it, until it is spot on. It is only then we start the production of the various elements require.
5. Testing & launch
Before anything leaves Oven it is tested and checked thoroughly, only then is it launched into the marketplace.
6. Measure & evaluation
After a job is completed and released into the world, Oven measures it’s reach and conversion. With this information we can do more fine tuning, expand on the idea and discover more insights for the client’s future endeavours.
Our simple mission
Identify | Clarify | Magnify
We identify our clients’ business needs and their position in the marketplace.
We then clarify their message and add some creativity to hit just the right chord with the target demographic.
We then magnify this message to reach as many prospective consumers as possible.