August is a full-service brand + marketing agency on a mission to build brands through bold ideas and compelling creative.
Our work is grounded in strategy, whether we are crafting a brand from the ground up, sharpening visual identity and positioning, building a cutting edge website, or delivering compelling campaigns and content to reach key audiences. We’ve come to be known by our clients as a ‘special forces’ team for how we shape shift depending on a company's needs in order to propel great strategies while delivering results.
The Basics
Our structure and story is unique, our team banded together from common corporate experiences having worked side by side for years (and in some cases a decade) at L’Oreal and Aldo. It is this camaraderie and familiarity with each other that has helped create an incredible dynamic within August fueled by friendship, respect and desire for collective success.
Our Promise
Our agency promise is simple, as a boutique shop there is no bait and switch, the owners of the business and team behind the pitch are the creators of the work and serve as the primary contact for clients. This reflects our conviction that great strategy cannot happen without great minds and a personal commitment to our clients.
Services
Strategy
Diagnosis
Analysis
Insight
We pinpoint opportunities that a brand can uniquely own by analysing the business, market, and cultural shifts in the world.
Purpose
Positioning
Proposition
Core to brand strategy, we define your north star: why you exist, what makes you different in order to communicate in a compelling and differentiating way.
Brand Naming
Portfolio Architecture
We create names that make you stand out and design systems to help customers navigate the brand offer and demonstrate ambition to investors.
Tone
Personas
Consumer Centricity
Building the tone and narrowing in on personas, we help you define products and services, and a customer experience, that enables better ways for people to engage with the brand.
Verbal Identity
Messaging
Words are powerful, so we make sure you have a distinctive tone of voice and messaging that’s right for your brand.
Design
Visual Identity
We activate your purpose and uniqueness through the foundational creative building blocks all brands require: from logo and colour palette through to custom typography and imagery.
Website Design
Webflow Development
We’ll help you translate the essence of your identity into a practical and intuitive website experience, so that it’s easy to navigate and thrive in the digital world.
Social Content
Packaging
Print Design
We ensure your brand’s expression goes beyond a logo and is able to communicate consistently across all required touch points.
Brand Guidelines
We support internal teams with the essential and practical tools they need to support change or launch a new brand in addition to how to navigate the guardrails and to measure progress.
Storytelling
Campaign Development
Content Production
Bringing together the brand expression through thoughtful and strategic visual storytelling, we ensure content and campaigns reflect the brand while intersecting current insights.
Launch
Marketing
Communications
We help to build and execute the full spectrum, integrated go-to-market strategy for your launch, including (but not limited to!), PR, social, partnerships, collaborations, influencer programs, paid media and advertorial.
Organizational Excellence
We raise the performance of marketing departments, by redefining their mandate, structure and operations.
Team
Katie Green
Founder
Brand Strategist
Media Guru
Kristen King
Founder
Brand Strategist
Gabriel Dufresne
Creative Director
Graphic & Web Designer
Ariela Valiente
Marketing Assistant