The Tailwind Blog
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New business launch package for Jason Medina Life Celebrant
Queenstown-based celebrant Jason Medina was getting prepared to launch his own business when he asked us to help him build a brand package that portrayed his passion and positive energy.
Website design for Helium Financial Planning
Our design solution focused on converting large portions of information into small, digestible sections with plenty of breathing room and paced with imagery, to make the content easy to skim over.
Web design: Queen Street Pharmacy now has an online shop!
We created a new e-commerce website for the pharmacy with modern functions like Click & Collect, Google Pay, Apple Pay and more.
Website design for Ohariu Valley Construction
Prospective clients can now discover the company’s mahi, ethos, and get in touch with their friendly team all in one place.
A highly-regarded new brand identity for Whisker Coastal Property
We chose to highlight the business's beautiful location, Australia's Sunshine Coast, with a palette of sandy golden hues and crystalline water. The logo incorporates a geometric 'W' and 'C', the latter shaped like a wave form with gradients to evoke the shimmering quality of the sea and sand.
An easy breezy change for Hamilton Dental and Prosthetic Lab
Hamilton Dental & Prosthetic Lab approached Tailwind Design to rebuild their website after struggling with a costly and unresponsive previous provider. Now they have a professional and smooth new website, with content that they have access to update themselves.
Unmissable website design for My Upper Hutt
The My Upper Hutt website offers an engaging experience at every turn with tons of bold typography, motion and familiar language.
Securing a memorable brand identity for SecurityLogics
We responded to our client's brief by steering away from sharp angles and aggressive colours, opting instead for an approachable lower case logotype and memorable gradient green/blue palette..
A premium website for Watson and Wyatt Event Design
Our Queenstown-based client needed a website refresh that reflected their growth and expanded range of services. We’re grateful to this client for their loyalty throughout the years, and we believe that continuous collaboration with us has lead to a harmonious user experience across all of their customer touchpoints.
A new brand identity for Lower North Electrical
Tailwind took on Queen Street Pharmacy's previous brand identity and extended it to flow throughout a bright, family-friendly new website.
Website redesign for Queen Street Pharmacy
Tailwind took on Queen Street Pharmacy's previous brand identity and extended it to flow throughout a bright, family-friendly new website.
Local legend Jarvis gets a sleek new brand identity
Hutt Valley stalwart Jarvis Plumbgas Services was merging with DJ Plumbing + Gasworks and approached us to design a brand that brings their combined 26 years of quality workmanship and skill to the forefront.
A transformative brand refresh for Above Focus
So our task became: capture what makes Above Focus great, craft a memorable brand that tells this story, and apply this effectively across all of their channels and collateral.
An immersive new website for Silverstream Retreat
Silverstream Retreat was in desperate need of updates to their website. The design of the previous website had a rigid and dated classical design that didn't accurately represent the high quality of the venue and its unique atmosphere.
With much of the details out of date, and being too busy to meet the content update requirements of their previous web company, they came to Tailwind for help.
FH Group Developments
The Tailwind team dedicated much of 2022 to transforming well-known local building company Friday Homes into a fully-fledged property development company. Friday Homes came to Tailwind with a goal — rebrand the business as “FH Group Developments” and build a sophisticated and flexible new visual identity across every facet of the business: website, digital, social, print, signage, vehicles, and more.
Branding & Website for Good Lending
Good Lending Finance Brokers came to us for help needing a high quality brand to instantly compete well in a competitive market. We nailed the brand with a nice balance of approachability, humility and professionalism. Then we built a fantastic lightweight website to get their message across and onboard new customers.
Website & Business Cards for Trust Air
We helped Trust Air with a sharp new website and an improved business card design. While we were at it we also tightened up their logo and prepared a full set of logo files to serve the business into the future.
Website design for True Architecture
Wellington-based True Architecture is a new architectural design business that had just rebranded and was in need of a new website — Tailwind to the rescue!
We took the direction of their new logo design and expanded it to an entire website design with lots of space, striking imagery, punchy language and great custom typography.
Website upgrade for EuroHeat
Earlier this year we designed this slick new website for local hydronic central heating experts EuroHeat.
EuroHeat were after a website upgrade that better represented their high-end product and service, is easy to navigate, and easy for them to make updates themselves going forward.
Brand refresh for Kiwi Homes Development
This new branding for Wellington-based Kiwi Homes Developments sheds the technological font and low-legibility tagline script to give the company a sharper and more refined look without losing any of its previous identity. 🏠