Mude

Building the brands that people prefer. Mude is a creative agency specialising in brand, video, and digital.

31/03/2026

Good creative doesn’t happen by accident (and neither should anything else, frankly).

Should we do a second run for the people?

16/03/2026

We talk about these two constantly and figured it was time to put them somewhere useful. Distinction, the way we see it, is about carving out a space only your brand can occupy.

It’s about becoming cognitively and emotionally entrenched in your audience’s memory. The brands that have it looked at every cliché their category had normalised and deliberately did something else.

Signalling is how people size you up. It’s how a brand telegraphs value, intent, and credibility, and how everyone around you decides whether they trust you, rate you, or want to be seen next to you.

Brands that aren’t landing, whether that’s on pricing, on recruitment, or on conversion, often have a signalling problem. In our experience they usually think they have a marketing problem, which is exactly how the signalling problem survives.

24/02/2026

This is culture work.

We’re Mude, a strategic brand and creative agency here to create work that earns its place in culture. We’re built for brands that want to ratchet up culture, and creatives who live to shape it.

We do this by building charismatic, culturally relevant brands and taking them from branded to brand-led.

If you’re looking to win the positioning game, DM us.

🎶 by long time collaborator of the Mude fam
Believe – Taka Perry, Leon Fanourakis & YNG Martyr (ft Sokodomo & Ramengvrl)

19/02/2026

NEW WORK // Crafting a cosmetics accessories brand that believes in life’s little must-haves.

Nescii was built for the things you reach for without thinking. The little tools that make the routine work. The name itself comes from “the necessities” and that specific feeling of “I can’t live without my eyelash curler”. It’s the essentials, framed with a bit of attitude. Our task was to shape how Nescii shows up visually and verbally, and give form to a brand built around function, familiarity, and modern usefulness.

That idea shaped the brand’s posture. Nescii doesn’t show up like a clinical aisle of “beauty tools”, and it doesn’t lean into the usual ultra-feminine packaging codes either. It’s confident, playful, and modern. It feels like it belongs in real life: on a bathroom shelf, in a makeup bag, in a carry-on, in a gym kit. The tone stays direct and easy without the transformation promises. Nescii is for the tools that do their job and look good doing it.

Nescii needs to move in Chemist Warehouse and Priceline, work in boutique pharmacies, and still hold its own in David Jones or Myer. Affordable, high-quality, and genuinely useful, the kind of stuff you buy once, then start treating as non-negotiable.

03/02/2026

The studio roof lately

29/01/2026

Brand identity is culture work.

At its best, it acts like cultural shorthand. It tells people what kind of brand this is, and what world it belongs to.

Look closely at the brands people admire and there’s usually a spine of cultural literacy. They pay attention to what’s happening in art, design, film, fashion, music, and sub-cultures, then connect those signals to a point of view.

Brands are rarely inventors of culture, because the culture was almost always there before the brand existed. Great brands find the thread that connects those signals to the brand’s point of view. They borrow from culture, remix it, and contribute something new back.

12/01/2026

NEW WORK // An FMCG brand identity forged in the discipline and style of the ride. We transformed Skyline into a culture-first performance brand for people who want to signal an active lifestyle.

Elite cycling became the lead cultural anchor because it expresses the traits Skyline wanted to own: discipline, speed, and precision. Our approach followed the same principles we bring to any FMCG brand identity project: understand the culture a product wants to belong to, then build the identity from that centre outward.

Most branding in the drinkware category gravitates towards camping, hiking, or playful lifestyle design. There are players in the sport space, so anchoring the brand in elite cycling gives Skyline a more distinctive cultural home for everyday movers who take their lifestyle seriously.

09/01/2026

Recapping a very special night as the studio was taken over by for a stripped-back concert showcasing their new project 😌 The whole thing began as one week away, a remote Airbnb with a grand piano (you’d be surprised how hard it is to find a place with one), and nothing else to do but write a whole damn album.

Supporting we also hosted the very talented who kicked off the night blessing the ears with some of his recent songs 💛

08/01/2026

NEW WORK // A brand identity for little ones who live in the sun. ☀️

Sun Baby started with a familiar parenting conundrum: how do you keep a tiny human cool, covered, and comfortable in the harsh Australian sun, especially in those early months when babies are still to young to be slathered in sunscreen. The team shaped a nature-led palette, playful illustrations, and a relaxed summer mark. Branding for beach days, camping weekends, and parents who still want their tiny human to look good in the family photo. ☀️

07/01/2026

New year, new site, who dis? 👀
Excited to see our part-discovery platform, part-cultural archive finally get a new website. 2026 we’re bringing many more exciting artist collaborations and continuing to be a platform bringing audiences great artists we believe should top their playlist.

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21 Queen Street
Glebe, NSW
2037

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http://www.mude.com.au/

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