Build a brand that earns attention, and a digital presence that wins business.
Build a brand that earns attention and a website that wins business.
Duo Design is a brand strategy and website design studio based in Hamilton, New Zealand. We've been working together since 2002, and in that time we've built brands, websites, and marketing campaigns for organisations that needed their creative work to do more than look good. Science companies entering new markets. Architecture practices winning national tenders. Hospitality brands that became destination award-winners. Whatever the brief, the standard is the same.
Work we're proud of.
Twenty-four years of projects, and these are the ones that stay with you, not because they were the biggest, but because something shifted for the client on the other side of them. A brand that finally matched the business. A website that started generating the right enquiries. An identity that made people want to know more.
Goldsun Wire Rope
Architecture Bureau
“Choosing Duo Design to design our logo and website is the best money I've ever invested in marketing my business.
Whatever money I’ve spent in the past 30 years I’ve never had positive results like these – loads of new referrals and strong leads! All through the brand and website designed and built by Duo Design.
Without doubt, working with Duo Design is one of the best business investments I’ve ever made.”
Our Expertise
Brand Strategy & Visual Identity.
A brand strategy is the reasoning behind how you look, what you say, and how you make people feel about your organisation before they've spoken to anyone there. We build that reasoning carefully, from positioning and audience definition through to the visual identity systems, messaging, and communications guidelines that make it consistent across everything you do. We've worked extensively in engineering, architecture, education, healthcare, science, and with iwi organisations.
We've built hundreds of websites from our Waikato studio over twenty years and the thing that's changed most in that time isn't the technology, it's the standard. A website that doesn't rank, doesn't convert, or doesn't represent the organisation accurately is a liability, not an asset. Duo Design build sites that do all three, on content management systems that make sense for the people who have to use them, long after we've handed them over. Custom design, SEO strategy built in from the start, and the kind of ongoing support that means you're not on your own the moment something needs updating.
Marketing Campaigns.
We've run national health campaigns across the marae network. Helped a Central Otago vineyard become New Zealand's best wine tourism experience. Delivered tender documents that secured major contracts in architecture, construction, and engineering. Published annual reports for organisations that needed their work to hold up under scrutiny from board members, regulators, and the public. The common thread in all of it: a campaign that doesn't hold together across every channel isn't doing its job. Duo Design plan across strategy, design, digital, and print, and we stay with it until it's working.
2002
Year Company Founded
20 Yrs+
Longest Client Relationships
75x
Client Staff Growth
+20%
Above Launch Traffic Target
Joanne Hair
Jo's background is in visual communications, but her real discipline is brand strategy and identity for organisations that needed more than a logo refresh; they needed a coherent identity that could carry them into the next stage of their growth.
Andrew Newth
Andrew has designed and built hundreds of websites over two decades. His range takes in content management systems, custom development, SEO strategy, and brand identity.