Forge Creative Ltd

21/11/2025

We're really chuffed about the vibrant new website we've created for Escape Rentals. A full on two-day shoot by Jay French travelling from mountain to sea to capture the Escape promise; where you become fully immersed in New Zealand's stunning landscapes.
Check it out at https://www.escaperentals.co.nz/

05/12/2024

Meet, greet and tick off your Christmas gift list at the Ponsonby Market Day this Saturday. Santa and his fairies will be adding to the spirit along with independent market stalls galore. We designed a set of summery folk graphics highlighting the things we love this time of year, check them out while you’re enjoying the Market Day. I Love Ponsonby

21/11/2024

You can’t beat a good mascot to help separate you from the crowd (without naming names, just think clown, colonel, stick man, and spotty dog). Say hello to Scotty, a character we recently created for Scott Electrical, a locally owned electrical wholesaler with 17 branches from Kerikeri to Rotorua. Scotty epitomises all the good things about the Scott’s brand – helpful, relatable and expert. He’s making appearances in bi-monthly catalogues, EDMs and the Scott Electrical website, with more activity planned soon. If you’d like to give your brand some character with a unique mascot, give us a call and let’s talk personalities.

30/10/2024

Peoples’ health, safety and wellbeing are at the heart of Safe365's values – and their software-based solutions used by businesses and organisations globally.

So when Safe365 asked us to level-up their existing branding, our response after competitor analysis research was to bring focus back to the people.

Their visual language now balances Safe365’s data-rich technology offering with heartbeats of humanity within work environments. It’s been carried across both printed and digital comms – including their solutions-focused website featuring custom Lottie animations to demonstrate dashboard features, geo-specific content, and leadership insights easily managed by the client.

Check out the results at https://safe365global.com/ and book a demo for your company.

And if it’s time for a brand identity that really builds your business, let’s talk.

26/08/2024

The website we recently built for Ashton Mitchell, an Auckland-based architecture practice, includes a useful feature that allows them to update projects in a way that does full justice to their award-winning work. Images of Ashton Mitchell’s latest projects can be easily uploaded by the team in the way that they should be seen, in both portrait and landscape formats. No fixed sizes or nasty cropping here to get in the way of the visual drama. Flexibility doesn’t stop there. An ultra-fluid design template allows for the perfect marriage of images and text to convey the nuances of each project while still maintaining a consistent look. Check https://www.ashtonmitchell.com/project/stuart-mccutcheon-house/ to see what we mean.

21/08/2024

A big congratulations to two of our clients, Toku Eyes and Carac International Ltd for their wins at the 25th AmCham – DHL Express Success & Innovation Awards held on the 16th August.
The Awards recognise Kiwi companies who have successfully grown trade, investment, education and tourism links with the USA.
Toku Inc, who develop tools using AI and retinal photography for early, accurate (and above all, accessible) diagnosis of health conditions, took away both the Supreme Award and the Exporter of the Year to the USA - Technology Innovation Award.
Carac won the Manufacturing Innovation Award for their TrackGrip excavator track attachments that make it easier for tracked vehicles to get in and out of tough situations.

15/08/2024

Feel Good Moment Number 1: To be involved in a project that has a meaningful social impact.
Feel Good Moment Number 2: Seeing that work selected as a Finalist in the 2024 Best Design Awards: https://bestawards.co.nz/toitanga/toitanga/forge-creative/building-better-homes-towns-and-cities-bbhtc/
And we all know what Feel Good Moment Number 3 would be.

A big thank you to Building Better Homes, Towns & Cities National Science Challenge. Working closely with you to bring the website and collateral to life has been full of Feel Good moments.

13/07/2022

At Forge, we make sure your silent brand ambassador says all the right things to your target markets. Think of it as “diplomatic design” that convinces and converts.

06/07/2022

“You never really understand a person until you…climb into his skin and walk around in it.” - Atticus Finch.
We put this skin walking at the heart of all our Home-grown User Experience web design.

What is UX Design? UX or User Experience Design is the process of designing with empathy for the user at the very heart of the process.

30/06/2022

Want to take your creative assets to the next level?

We have photographers and videographers in a wide range of locations across New Zealand ready to work with you on your upcoming project! Talk to us today: https://forge.co.nz/talk-to-us/

22/06/2022

Matariki is an abbreviation of ‘Ngā Mata o te Ariki Tāwhirimātea (‘The eyes of the god Tāwhirimātea’). Ranginui, the sky father, and Papatuanuku, the earth mother were separated by the offspring, one of their sons, god of the winds Tāwhirimātea, became angry, tearing out his eyes and hurling them into the heavens.

In New Zealand, this year will be our first to receive a public holiday relating to Matariki as the cluster of 9 stars, reappearing in our night sky signifies the Maori New Year. Matariki is a time of renewal and celebration of people, culture, language, spirituality and history in Aotearoa, and for remembering those that have passed on.

We look forward to celebrating the Maori New Year with the sense of kotahitanga (coming together).
Happy Matariki - from Forge!

16/06/2022

We’ve packaged up some pointers on how to become popular with well-planned posts (along with some easily preventable pitfalls). Too time-poor for social media? We can do it for you - and we promise to ease up on the alliteration.
https://forge.co.nz/talk-to-us/