Elk Creative

Elk Creative created a bold, colourful brand and website for us. It's everything we hoped for and portrays exactly how we want to be perceived by our audience. We're super proud of the result.

As a side benefit, the brand guideline has made it extremely easy for us to create our own creatives in-house.

The founder Corey is a model brand and web designer. I am in many of the same Facebook groups and have seen how many other designers look up to him. That says a lot.

Elk Creative are not only professional, responsive but also highly creative, thoughtful and supportive. They take the time to get to know you, your business and your vision, and then manage to creatively market this into many different formats.

Elk design valued my input and constantly worked with me to improve upon current marketing and design strategies taking my business marketing to another level. They supported me to make professional connections and networks continue support my business growth and future possibilities.

If you are looking for someone to support your business, and help get you vision seen in the world then Eld Design are definitely the guys to do this!

We have been working closely with Elk Creative for the past year whilst updating our business website, I have found their representative to be informative, helpful and prompt to reply. Shout out to Corey specifically for answering my myriad of questions, deciphering my odd requests and pushing through updates on tight time frames. The updates are everything I was after and have refreshed our website, bringing it up to date. I look forward to working with Elk again in the future.

I love our logo and website (and Corey!). My only wish would be for Elk to offer even more services so we could work together longer.

Have worked with Corey for many years and can honestly say is one of the best creatives I have ever come cross.

Elk Creative are the most innovative, original, professional and easy-to-work with design agency we have ever come across! Highly recommended! Our experience with Corey as the lead designer and brand strategist stretches over a decade and includes the very early concept design, branding and website development for our holiday accommodation business, and then a complete re-branding and upgrading of our brand presence as our business graduated into the 'pro-league' of luxury accommodation providers, some years later. We will keep coming back for more as we just love working with these guys! You will be heard by someone who really cares, and keeps an open mind and a focus on your needs and dreams for your business. Yael and Rob from Ecopia Retreat, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

From the initial concept meeting, to the design process and creation of the website, Corey was professional, precise and addressed the design brief in every aspect. Working with Corey was a pleasure, he communicated each design phase thoroughly and his attention to detail is exceptional, I am overwhelmed with the Artisan Furniture Australia website that he has produced, capturing furniture design at its best. Thank you Corey!

Are you finding it incredibly difficult and time consuming to find a graphic designer that is HONEST, FRIENDLY, HELPFUL AND produces QUALITY work that you will absolutely LOVE?

I know I was!

My name is Cory and I started my electrical contracting business only a few months ago. When I decided to find a graphic designer for my business' branding I reached out to a business community I'm part of on Facebook, asking for peoples experiences with freelancers from Fiverr and Upwork. I received many responses - positive, negative and many more which were completely unrelated. After receiving advice from people to keep away from freelancers on those websites and use Australian graphic designers, I reached out to someone who ran a graphic design business in Melbourne (This was NOT Elk Creative).

My experience with this person was disheartening and I terminated the contract due to one of the concept designs being found on an Australian design blog.

During this time I also met Corey Dodd from Elk Creative through a Facebook Community. He offered his support, answered any questions I had regarding graphic design and also taught me what steps a graphic designer should take to guarantee they are on the same page as the customer.

After speaking with Corey and seeing some of his designs, I was pleased with his quality of work and decided I would ask him for a quote. Unfortunately at the time, the amount he was asking was much more than I had budgeted for.

Feeling defeated by the first designer I decided to use two seperate freelancers hoping they might hit the nail on the head whilst keeping my costs down and within budget.

My time with the freelancers was long and painful. One copied logos from Shutterstock and kept showing me logos based on the letter "E" despite my instructions saying that is exactly what I didn't want.

The other was providing me with sketches and discussed things I liked to an extent, unfortunately I felt that his artistic capabilities weren't up to the standard I wanted. I terminated both contracts.

At this point in time, frustration was high and so was my blood pressure - I bit the bullet and increased the budget for the company's branding.

I spoke with Corey and let him know the situation with the freelancers. He was kind, understanding, sympathetic and offered his services to me with a payment plan to help me out.

This is where my blood pressure came good.

Corey and I spoke on the phone for almost an hour regarding the project. He asked me questions about my target market, the colours I would like, the shapes, etc. I had to mention to him that I wasn't going to have a logo with the letter "E", a light bulb, lightning bolt or a power plug.

He listened to my requests and created a mood board to capture the idea I had in my mind, to make sure he understood the direction I wanted to head in.

I went over the mood board, gave him some extra information - told him I wanted something sharp, like an arrow or triangle, it had to have gradients and had to look professional.

I think he absolutely nailed it! NAILED IT!
Elk Creative created a brand that I am super proud of. The artwork came out fantastic, so did the business cards and letterhead.

I honestly couldn't be happier with the work Corey has done.
With his kind gesture, education, support and impeccable work, he managed to make me feel much happier after having 3 bad experiences with other graphic designers.

Finally - if you've come across the Elk Creative website and you're considering having them tackle your project, please turn that consideration into a definite decision and contact the team at Elk Creative.

You'll be kicking yourself if you go elsewhere, you'll see.

Are you finding it incredibly difficult and time consuming to find a graphic designer that is HONEST, FRIENDLY, HELPFUL AND produces QUALITY work that you will absolutely LOVE?

I know I was!

My name is Cory and I started my electrical contracting business only a few months ago. When I decided to find a graphic designer for my business' branding I reached out to a business community I'm part of on Facebook, asking for peoples experiences with freelancers from Fiverr and Upwork. I received many responses - positive, negative and many more which were completely unrelated. After receiving advice from people to keep away from freelancers on those websites and use Australian graphic designers, I reached out to someone who ran a graphic design business in Melbourne (This was NOT Elk Creative).

My experience with this person was disheartening and I terminated the contract due to one of the concept designs being found on an Australian design blog.

During this time I also met Corey Dodd from Elk Creative through a Facebook Community. He offered his support, answered any questions I had regarding graphic design and also taught me what steps a graphic designer should take to guarantee they are on the same page as the customer.

After speaking with Corey and seeing some of his designs, I was pleased with his quality of work and decided I would ask him for a quote. Unfortunately at the time, the amount he was asking was much more than I had budgeted for.

Feeling defeated by the first designer I decided to use two seperate freelancers hoping they might hit the nail on the head whilst keeping my costs down and within budget.

My time with the freelancers was long and painful. One copied logos from Shutterstock and kept showing me logos based on the letter "E" despite my instructions saying that is exactly what I didn't want.

The other was providing me with sketches and discussed things I liked to an extent, unfortunately I felt that his artistic capabilities weren't up to the standard I wanted. I terminated both contracts.

At this point in time, frustration was high and so was my blood pressure - I bit the bullet and increased the budget for the company's branding.

I spoke with Corey and let him know the situation with the freelancers. He was kind, understanding, sympathetic and offered his services to me with a payment plan to help me out.

This is where my blood pressure came good.

Corey and I spoke on the phone for almost an hour regarding the project. He asked me questions about my target market, the colours I would like, the shapes, etc. I had to mention to him that I wasn't going to have a logo with the letter "E", a light bulb, lightning bolt or a power plug.

He listened to my requests and created a mood board to capture the idea I had in my mind, to make sure he understood the direction I wanted to head in.

I went over the mood board, gave him some extra information - told him I wanted something sharp, like an arrow or triangle, it had to have gradients and had to look professional.

I think he absolutely nailed it! NAILED IT!
Elk Creative created a brand that I am super proud of. The artwork came out fantastic, so did the business cards and letterhead.

I honestly couldn't be happier with the work Corey has done.
With his kind gesture, education, support and impeccable work, he managed to make me feel much happier after having 3 bad experiences with other graphic designers.

Finally - if you've come across the Elk Creative website and you're considering having them tackle your project, please turn that consideration into a definite decision and contact the team at Elk Creative.

You'll be kicking yourself if you go elsewhere, you'll see.

We are so pleased to have engaged Elk Creative to do our initial website and website upgrade. Corey has been fantastic and very helpful. The design of our website and the way it functions is exactly what we wanted, it is also really simple to update to add photos on our own. We wouldn't hesitate to recommend Elk Creative to anyone!

We had the pleasure of having Elk Creative rebrand our business. Corey was great to deal with and took his time to understand what we wanted from the rebrand, and came up with a great outcome that we are more than pleased with.

We would highly recommend Elk Creative.

Matthew & Summa Tully
Cleaneasy

We are so pleased to have engaged Elk Creative to do our initial website and website upgrade. Corey has been fantastic and very helpful. The design of our website and the way it functions is exactly what we wanted, it is also really simple to update to add photos on our own. We wouldn't hesitate to recommend Elk Creative to anyone!

I have worked with Elk Creative for the best part of 10 years. I can't recommend their services highly enough. Definitely one of the best web designers in South Australia.

Corey has designed 2 of our websites so far, we just love the fact that he got it. He listened to us, he put himself in our place to ensure that our business would get the maximum traffic. He ensures continuous improvement and tweaks it regularly, he takes pride in his work and it shows. Love your work! And look forward to our next face lift xx