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STUDIO 8 DESIGN Sara Bowers

STUDIO 8 DESIGN Sara Bowers
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About

Hey! I'm Sara Bowers, Creative Director of Studio 8 - a bespoke design studio fuelled by passion, an artisan approach to design, and countless cups of strong coffee. For the past two decades, I've helped empower hundreds of businesses by creating soulful, strategic branding and stunning websites to elevate them to the next level. I believe that branding and web design should be elegant as well as powerful; they should spark smiles as well as sales. And absolutely - that your design journey should be nurturing, smooth and joyful. I tell distinctive visual stories that represent soulful business owners and help them attract the clients of their dreams.

Services

POWERHOUSE "Mini-Brand-In-A-Day" Design Intensive

From $2,100

A fully unique and custom brand, without the turnaround or investment of a full branding process. It is absolutely possible to design a mini-brand in a day! Your mini-brand will include the essentials to get you started. This is ideal for those who need to launch quickly and efficiently without all the bells and whistles. Included in your Powerhouse Brand: - Welcome Guide - Personalised Trello Studio Hub Board - 1 hr. pre-session work (research and concept work) - 8 hours of design on our Powerhouse Day - 2 hrs post-session finalisation (branding package creation) - Touch-base call before our session - Our signature Brand Discovery worksheets to help design your brand with strategy in mind - Full logo/branding package with every file format needed for future use - Custom brand style guide - Our signature Brand Resource guide (checklists, resources, video tutorials and more) to launch and keep your brand running with ease & consistency. - 14 days support for post-session questions What we do: You will receive my signature Brand Discovery worksheets ahead of time, which help me (but also you!) gain insight on your business and customers. I will design a logo, wordmarks and logomarks (variations), a suite of logo files, a colour palette and your brand fonts/type hierarchy. You’ll also receive a 1-2 page Brand Style Guide for your branding assets, my Graphic/Logo Usage Guide and an awesome Resource Guide to help you launch. (These, as well as your branding package, are designed and delivered the day following your session). Considerations: We've designed some phenomenal brands in a day, and have nothing but exceptional feedback. However, let’s be real, these fast and furious sessions aren’t for everyone. You will be getting amazing brand assets unique to you with a quick turnaround. But you are trading speed for the customisation and strategic design that would go into a larger branding project. My standard custom branding design services are typically a 3-5 week turnaround and average $3500-$6000. If you are looking for an expertly crafted brand, strategically and thoughtfully designed to empower your business for connection and growth, please enquire for the full branding service! If you have a new business or sub-brand that needs to be launched quickly, this could be just the right fit. (Note that the mini-brand is a customised often a text-based logo and does not typically include illustrations or graphics, unless we have extra time). Note: Design intensives require fast feedback. For this reason, this service may only available in Australia/New Zealand (or similar time zones) due to time zone limitations with communication.

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Fully custom 5 page Showit website

From $5,000

A unique and beautiful fully custom website for your brand. (Hand-crafted with no templates - no ho-hum, cookie-cutter websites here!) - Includes 5 pages, which we can finalise later. Recommended: Home, About, Services, Contact (with contact form), Booking or Sales page. - Includes up to 600 words and 12 images on each page. (More can be added at hourly rate) - Includes my website content creation guide to help you craft your perfect content and imagery - Includes up to 2x 1hr Zoom meetings at any point to discuss anything regarding the site build. - Includes a 45-min tutorial over Zoom (recorded so you can reference later) on how to manage and make changes to your site. Team this up with a fully professional branding package from Studio 8 for a match made in heaven! Note: prices average at $5000 for a 5 page site, but other pages can be added for approx. $1000/page extra. Each client and case is different so please contact me to discuss your particular website goals.

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Semi-Custom Brand Kits

From $950

Premium semi-custom brands Transform your business - in just 10 days! Take your business from dream to full-fledged brand. Finally have that fully professional logo and branding assets to empower you through the next phase of business. These brands are pre-designed and ready for purchase today, customised to your business name, colour choice and tagline! Our fully professional, semi-custom packages typically include: Primary logo (customisable) Secondary logos (customisable) Icon/Logomark and Wordmarks (customisable) Brand Pattern/Backgrounds or Illustrations Custom Personalised Brand Tagline graphic All logo files in multiple formats for print and web Typography and expert font pairing Colour specs and codes Personal Brand Style Guide Curated collection of 12 royalty free images BONUSES: Logo and Graphics usage guide AND Signature Launch Resources Pack ✔️ALL-YOURS - Your branding package is customised with your company name, tagline, and even colours if you choose. Each brand is limited edition and sold only a few times so they are unique and truly stand out. ✔️SPEEDY - Launch in days, not weeks. Ready in just 10 days to get you all set for that champagne-pop (not to mention the pride-boost and smiles of empowerment) as fast as possible. ✔️COST EFFECTIVE - Semi-custom brands are just a fraction of the cost of a fully custom brand. If you aren't quite ready to invest in brand strategy or fully-custom branding, these are the perfect solution. ✔️PREMIUM & PRO - I've designed hundreds of brands over the last 25 years. You're partnering with an expert. These brands are comprehensive with all the bells and whistles. You don't just get a logo, you get an entire cohesive brand.

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POWERHOUSE "Starter Website-In-A-Day" Design Intensive

From $2,100

A fully professional starter site, without the turnaround or investment of a full website design process. It is certainly possible to design a small starter website in a day! Your 3-4 page site will include a basic home page, about page, services page and an optional fillable contact form page (all totally on-brand!). I build out both the desktop and mobile versions. This is ideal for people who need to launch quickly and efficiently. Included in your Powerhouse Site: - Welcome Guide - Personalised Trello Studio Hub Board - 2 hrs. pre-session work (image and setup work) - 8 hours of design and development work (including mobile responsive site) on our Powerhouse Day - 1 hr post-session (connection, testing) - Touch-base zoom call before the session - A copy of our Website Content Creation Guide worksheets to help you nail perfect website copy and images. - Connection of your domain name and security certificate. - Personal Zoom tutorial (and video recording) to show you how to easily manage and edit your own site. - Full transfer of all site contents - 14 days support for post-session questions We do all of the design in a day, though the actual process is typically between 2-3 days (with domain connection and Zoom training the day after). Your site will be designed in the amazing Showit platform (my favourite!). Your Showit web hosting subscription and domain name purchase is separate and I’ll work with you to set this up before the day. Once the site is built, I will transfer it to you, connect it to your domain name and run you through a training to show you how easy it is to edit and manage yourself! I've designed phenomenal sites in a day, with nothing but amazing reviews. However, let’s be frank, it isn’t for everyone. You will be getting a website unique to you with a quick turnaround. But you are trading speed for the customisation and strategic design that would go into a larger site build. Additionally, sites which include more pages, blogs, sales pages, e-commerce or additional pages are not possible to design in a day. My standard custom web design services are typically a 3-5-week turnaround and average $5000-$7000. If you are looking for a custom-built website optimised for growth and conversion, please enquire. If you have a simple site and need it launched quickly, this could be just the right fit (note: we can always add more later!) Please let me know if you'd like to see some of the sites I’ve done in a day. Note: Design intensives require fast feedback. For this reason, this service is may only available be available in Australia/New Zealand (or similar time zones) due to time zone limitations with communication.

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Brand Strategy - Comprehensive

From $5,000

Brand Strategy goes far beyond choosing colours and fonts that your customers respond to, it is about solving actual problems, relieving stress points, and looking at strategies that will align you not only to your perfect customers but to a greater sense of ease and clarity in what you do. Our brand strategy process starts with a strategy workshop together (over Zoom). The session allows you to hit pause and take a step back so you can propel forward (think of it like a slingshot). It is so valuable to take some time to pull yourself back and take time to re-evaluate and re-visit the “why’s” and "how's" of your business. It will amplify all of your efforts going forward. We do this in an exciting, insightful and effective way together. If you are entering a new phase of business, have been in business for 2-4 years or are offering new services, evaluating your brand strategy is invaluable. Not only does this process allow you to gain better (and more soul-filling) sales, it means that you’ll slide into your next phase of business with an empowering sense of clarity, purpose and direction. You are given a stunning and powerful Brand Roadmap document which gives you recommendations for the future of your branding and your business. Imagine yourself supremely confident that every part of your branding, marketing and sales process was perfectly in place. Who is brand strategy for: ✔️If you've been in business for three-five years since initially branding or rebranding. It's great to re-evaluate here. ✔️If you feel muddled or messy about the direction you are headed and how to to it with efficiency, ease and purpose. ✔️If you've changed your services, your ideal customer or your products, it's a good idea to re-align your brand. What we do: ⭐ STAGE 1 - Collaborative workshop - 3-4 hours (1-2 sessions) Below is a rough outline of what we may cover, depending on what will be most helpful to you. You will have the ability to choose beforehand the areas you'd like most focus on. The average workshop time is 3-4 hours: ✔️Intro & Goals: we will briefly talk about what brand strategy is, how it can help and dive into an overview of your business goals, problems, future plans, pain points. and our goals and intentions for the Brand Strategy process. ✔️Brand Heart: We will go through questions and exercises about your business. We get to the “why” of your business (the heart), attributes, market analysis and pinpoint your audience. Next we get clear about goals for visibility, business and efficiency and discover where your energy and time is best spent. ✔️Audience: We fine-tune your ideal customer avatar, and clarify the needs, desires and expectations of your audience to guide them into feeling comfortable and excited to work with you. We will also look at competitor/peer analysis and find your specific niche in the market. ✔️Customer Journey: focus on customer experience - we look at each stage of the customer journey, from discovery to post-working with you. We identify gaps and areas to improve. How do we connect an on-brand experience to each phase and create raving fans of what you offer? ✔️Value and Productivity: we go through what is really moving the needle for you - where is your time and energy best spent. We look at goals for income streams, visibility and efficiency. How can you decide where is best to put your energy and what to remove from your task list? ✔️Wrap up & Questions ✔️Extra: Additionally we can develop or refine a mission statement, vision statement and brand positioning statement ⭐ STAGE 2 - Research & Reflection: After the workshop I begin my own research, identifying where things align and overlap, where things are working and where things could be improved. I delve more into identifying your niche in the current market and how to use your unique style to stand out from how "everyone else" is doing it. ⭐STAGE 3 - Solutions: Your Brand Roadmap: I create a documented plan for success, a Brand Roadmap. This document will be 40-45 pages of valuable information, including a consolidation of our workshop, my research, and recommendations for implementation. You end up with a concise roadmap of how to move forward knowing that you are reaching your ideal market in a way that feels good for you both. This becomes an invaluable document to show your entire team. I will also then use this strategic plan to inform the branding (and other) design to ensure that we are solving real problems and working toward your business goals. Interested in finding out more about how my Brand Strategy process can help your growing business? Get in touch!

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Brand Basics Package

From $3,200

Branding Inclusions - - Signature “Brand Discovery” worksheets, consultation, research and basic strategy - Custom brand moodboard (as part of strategy and pre-design) - Final curated logo (vertical, horizontal and wordmark versions) & 1 logomark/icon and sample usage mockups - Final logo package with multiple file formats and colours - Final logomark package with multiple file formats - Colour palette, colour specs and brand fonts - Logo usage guide - Custom Brand Style Guide - 2-3 page - with colour palette, colour specs and brand fonts guidelines

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Brand Beginnings Package

From $4,800

Branding Inclusions - - Signature “Brand Discovery” worksheets, consultation, research and basic strategy - Custom brand moodboard (as part of strategy and pre-design) - Comprehensive curated set of logos & logomarks/icons (one main design with multiple variations for a variety of applications) - Custom brand pattern, brand background or graphics set - Sample usage mockups - Final logo/logomark/pattern file package with multiple colour and file formats - Colour palette, colour specs and brand fonts - Logo usage guide - Custom Brand Style Guide - 4-6 pg. - with colour palette, colour specs and brand fonts guidelines - Canva Brand Kit Setup (requires Canva Pro) and 6 instagram-size social media templates

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Brand Immersion Package

From $6,900

Branding Inclusions - - Signature “Brand Discovery” worksheets, consultation, research and strategy - Custom brand moodboard (as part of strategy and pre-design) - Comprehensive curated set of logos & logomarks/icons (one main design with multiple variations for a variety of applications) - Custom brand pattern, brand background or graphics set - Sample usage mockups - Final logo/logomark/pattern file package with multiple colour and file formats - Colour palette, colour specs and brand fonts - Logo usage guide - Comprehensive custom Brand Style Guide digital book, 15+pages with logo, colour palette, colour specs and brand fonts guidelines - Canva Brand Kit Setup (requires Canva Pro) and 6 instagram-size social media templates - 10 hand-selected photos from our high-quality stock image bank - Social media profile images and cover banners formatted for 3 platforms

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Certifications & achievements

Founding MemberOne of the first 100 designers to join the directory.Earned May 2026

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