Omari: Adolescence
An independent record, given an identity true to the artist and a release that reached the people who needed it first.
Maal Studio · Melbourne
Find your people.
A marketing and branding studio for artists, venues, festivals, and cultural organisations. We find the audience that stays.
They're already out there.
We draw the route.
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A note before the work
The right audience, not the largest.
Most studios sell you reach. Reach is the wrong thing to chase. An audience that doesn't care is just a number, and numbers don't come back.
So we work the other way around. We find the story first, then the people who already need to hear it, then the strategy, branding, and content that carry it to them. One set of hands, one point of view, from the first conversation to the last frame.
What we do
Not a list of services. One considered practice.
Strategy, branding, advertising, and content don't arrive as separate invoices. They run through the same hands, in the same direction, toward the same audience.
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Strategy
We start with the story that's true to you, then map the people already looking for it. The plan follows the audience, not the trend.
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Branding & identity
A mark, a voice, and a system that hold up across a poster, a feed, and a venue wall. Built to be recognised, not just admired once.
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Advertising & promotion
Campaigns and event promotion placed where your people are. Spend that earns attention from the few who count, not the many who scroll past.
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Content
Photography, film, and social, made with magazine-level care. We show the making, not just the made.
Your audience is already out there. Our job is the map.
Maal Studio
How we work
Compass. The room where the work is planned, previewed, and approved.
We didn't borrow a tool for this. We built one. Compass is the calm workspace we give every client: the plan, the drafts, and the sign-off in one place, exactly where you expect them.
Plan
Objectives, the calendar, and every piece of work laid out in order. You always know what's coming, and why.
Preview
See the work in context before it goes live. Posts, edits, and campaigns, as they'll appear.
Approve
Comment exactly where it matters, then approve in a click. No long email threads, no guesswork, no lost feedback.
Selected work
The work makes the case.
Studio Boco
A gallery identity: mark, voice, and a system made to live across the space and the screen. A new room, and the people to fill it.
Working together
Three ways to set out.
Every project starts with the same question: who is this for. Where you begin depends on how far down the road you already are.
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The Foundation From $500
The story, the audience, the voice, and the visual direction, set down in one place. A week of work that leaves you with a clear starting point, whether you carry it from there or hand it back to us.
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The Campaign Quoted to your brief
A release, a season, an opening, taken end to end. Strategy, branding, content, and the spend to carry it, scoped to what you're launching and the people you need in the room. Built on a foundation, yours or one we lay first.
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The Ongoing Relationship From $400 a month
For the work that doesn't stop at a launch. Narratively aligned content across your channels, month to month, with the direction to keep it coherent. No minimum commitment. Leave when it stops being useful.
Not sure where you sit? Tell us what you're working on, and we'll point you to the right one.
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Let's find your people.
If you have a release, a season, or an event coming up and you want it to reach the right people, tell us what you're working on and where you're trying to get to.
Maal Studio · Melbourne, Australia
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