Thistle Studio runs one fixed-scope brand sprint at a time — ten business days, one price, a brand system you actually ship.
A fixed scope, agreed before we start, delivered without a change order.
Makes it look good, hands over a folder of files, and is gone before you find out none of it fits together in a slide deck.
Gives you fonts and colours and assumes you already know what belongs together. You don’t — that’s the actual job.
Ninety minutes on the brief, the audience, and everything currently working against the logo you have.
Two directions, not six. We don’t believe in confusing you with more options.
Files, guidelines, and a system built to survive contact with a print shop.
Logo suite, colour and type system, brand guidelines, and a starter template set — fixed at this number the day you sign, whatever the brief turns into.
If the delivered brand system doesn’t hold together — colours, type and logo working as one thing, not three — we rebuild the parts that don’t, at no extra cost. It’s the only guarantee we make, and we’ve never had to use it twice on the same client.
“They turned down our first brief because we hadn’t picked an audience yet. Best rejection we ever got — the sprint that followed actually stuck.”
“Ten days, one price, zero follow-up invoices. I didn’t think that was how design worked.”
“The guidelines document is the first brand asset our team has actually opened twice.”
“No moodboards. No ‘let’s circle back’. Just two directions and a clear reason to pick one.”
Worked through in the first kickoff call, including the reasoning behind it — the client wanted sans for “clean”, we argued for a worn serif because the shop has been on that corner since 1911 and the brand should say so. Sans lost.
All of it, fixed at one price, ready ten business days after we start.
Tell us about the brief. If it’s a fit, we’ll call within one business day to lock in dates.
Wren Sorley & Isla Pryce, Thistle Studio.
We turn down about a third of enquiries — wrong stage, wrong budget, or a brief that isn’t actually a branding problem. You’ll hear that on the call, not after a deposit.
One structured round. It’s enough because we show two directions, not six, and we’re not designing on spec.
Then it’s probably not a sprint you need — talk to us and we’ll tell you honestly.
A $500 deposit holds your sprint slot — it comes off the final invoice.
No deposit, no held slot. That’s what stops a booked sprint sitting empty for a brief that moved on.
One call. A straight answer, even if it’s no.
Adelaide-based, sprints run Australia-wide. Call (07) 2150 3678.