Profile

Unsigned Studio is a global team of creative professionals that enable people to experience and explore urban environments and infrastructure like never before. We make journeys unforgettable and tell stories that connect. Using visualisation, interactive, and creative technologies we shape how your audience sees your project.

We are a studio within global engineering and infrastructure advisory business – Aurecon.

Expertise

Our work is underpinned by strategy, storytelling, creative technology and experimentation. We work across diverse projects for a broad range of clients and sectors, and throughout the project life cycle.

Strategy

Our starting point is always to make sure that we understand your challenges. We have a passion for insight to guide strategy. A clear project vision is developed. Our approach is collaborative and our project methodology is designed to be agile, problem solving, and rigorous. We work through technical, business, and stakeholder value to ensure we meet all applicable project requirements.

Story

Story is critical in communicating complex ideas. Through storytelling we draw out the ‘why’ of a project and translate it into visual mediums that engage with diverse audience groups on a human level. Story guides the structuring of messages in videos, informs the composition and content of message-led imagery and builds into the user experience in interactive applications.

Creative Technology

By applying new technologies, we can improve user experience, find better ways to engage an audience, and generate production efficiencies by using the same base assets in more imaginative ways. A research-focused approach guides design and development of interactive applications and visualisation tools so that they add value to the way we communicate.

Projects

Government & Policy .

Plan Melbourne

Our Team

Unsigned Studio is a multi-disciplinary global team of over 40. We bring together professionals with backgrounds in animation, art direction, film, architecture, technology and coding. Here are a selection of our leaders.

Dave Mackenzie

Dave has extensive experience working in Australia’s premiere digital studios. Dave’s specialisation is in creative applications of new technology for the built environment. Dave’s experience in 3D visualisation, programming and interactive design ensure that Unsigned Studio provides the latest and most innovative technology that the industry has to offer.

Nic Hamilton

Nic brings together a unique combination of creative strategy and technical mastery. Nic spearheaded the transformation of Studio Magnified from architectural visualisation to a more diverse, digital communications agency. Nic has 15 years’ experience in creating films for projects in Australia, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Drawing on a wide cultural network, he has also directed and created videos for a range of brands, agencies and cultural clients.

Cecily Hearn

Cecily is Head of Production and connects the big picture to the actions that make it happen. Her experience in film and television and her exceptional team management skills guide projects that are delivered collaboratively, smoothly, efficiently and to a high standard. Her creative background and passion for communication ensures that the idea and message is paramount in the process throughout all mediums.

Daniel Bushaway

Daniel is an award winning Creative Director and oversees and guides the creative approach for all studio deliverables. Drawing on almost 20 years of international branding, strategy and design experience, Daniel has helped to define some of London and Melbourne’s most recognisable companies and brands. His visual aesthetic ensures project alignment with client identity and audience experience.

Foo Chi Sung

Fooch established a digital studio in the practice that was to become Studio Magnified in 2009 to deliver a unique creative offer to Australia and Southeast Asia. While Fooch’s focus at Unsigned Studio is business development, he is naturally ‘hands-on’ in the studio and is passionate about developing the visual techniques we use to communicate the built environment.

Michael Gardiner

Michael has 14 years’ experience in digital engineering and is dedicated to applying visualisation across the entire project life cycle. He does this through the creation of bespoke frameworks and customised applications to solve engineering challenges, allowing Aurecon and its clients to make more informed decisions.

Sam Shepherd

Sam is a Senior Visualisation Specialist with over 14 years of 3D visualisation experience, working with engineers and architects on large-scale and complex projects. Through his technical skill and creative approach, Sam has developed a flexible tool set to meet the challenges of communicating big ideas clearly and imaginatively.

Clients

Unsigned Studio works with government agencies, property developers, architects, cultural and education institutions. Our folio includes film, still and interactive content for over 500 projects in commercial, cultural, retail, residential, infrastructure and planning sectors.