For the time poor Studio Pip and Co:

• is a multi-disciplinary design and communication practice — brand, print, digital, event to 3D design
• is independent and hardworking
• is Melbourne based
• works for many clients sectors — government, finance, fashion, entertainment, manufacturing, retail and cultural
• serves many client types — big to small, hands-on to not-for-profit
• the studio‘s work shifts between being functional, practical, sustainable, intelligent, innovative, adventurous to playful
• has three experienced designers
• eighteen years of professional practice
• has and continues to win “awards“
• strives to consult with clients and colleagues
• is never too busy to take on a new client, and or a project

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For the not so time poor Studio Pip and Co is …

Studio Pip and Co was opened for business on April Fools Day in 2004 by creative consultant, designer and writer Andrew Ashton.

Andrew Ashton was born in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia, in 1969. In 1998 he graduated from Randwick Graphic Design School and worked at Sydney based graphic design companies Lam-po-tang & Co and Gallaher + Associates.

In 1994 Ashton formed a design partnership called Nelmes Smith Ashton (NSA). In the ten years that proceeded NSA was renamed Precinct Design. In 1999 Ashton moved to Melbourne and in 2003 Ashton founded boutique communications consultancy Studio Pip and Co.

Ashton is a member of the prestigious Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), Switzerland. Ashton’s graphic design work has received numerous industry awards and recognition including two Australian Graphic Design Association Pinnacles, A Victorian Premier’s Design Awards Finalist, and a Silver Pencil at the Australian Writers and Art Directors Awards. He has served on numerous design awards panels in Australia and overseas.

Ashton is fascinated with the public’s perception of creativity and communication design and in 2002 he made a short film that asked the general public “What is graphic design?” To assist with growing awareness of creativity and communication design Ashton with associate Toward Hansen, develop and maintain a comprehensive design and creative commentary online journal which enjoys over a 180,000 unique visits a year. In 2009 in he produced his second photographic publication – For love for money. Along with commercial projects, Ashton produces an array of studio publications and retail paper products. Ashton volunteers for a range of cultural and industry organisations, he periodically teaches design, dabbles in editorial, speech and script writing, takes photographs whenever possible and chases after his young family in anytime that is left.

Our work

Studio Pip and Co’s activities and work orientates around the development and generation communication related projects that can work effectively across a range of media, including brand development, designs in print (brochures and catalogues), designs in environment (signing and events) and designs in digital (web and moving media).

The studio’s work adopts a unique mix of research, conceptual problem solving, attention to design craft, engaging writing, unique image making and audience testing. The studio’s house style is to develop diverse, inspired, useful, intelligent, and sustainable solutions as defined by the client’s product and audience. The studio’s clients include the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Australian Paper, Australian Graphic Design Association, Chamber Music Australia, Computershare, Jardan Australia, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Moonlight Cinema and Spicers Paper.

The studio‘s clients are its greatest collaborators. Fostering productive relationships allows inspired and effective work to transpire.

For studio and project enquiries please contact:

Andrew Ashton
Studio Pip and Co.
ideas (at) peoplethings (dot) com
12. 320 Carlisle Street
Balaclava Victoria Australia 3183
+61 3 9525 9844

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