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Clarity is Powerful.
Most growing businesses don’t have a brand problem. They have a clarity problem. And as organisations grow, what once felt instinctive becomes harder to explain, harder to defend and harder to scale. In the intelligence era, that challenge is amplified. Brands must remain coherent across more people, platforms and AI systems – all moving at a greater speed than ever before.
Nonfiction exists to bring clarity back to the centre: defining the essential idea and building the systems that allow a brand to scale without losing what makes it distinctive.
Most growing businesses don’t have a brand problem. They have a clarity problem. And as organisations grow, what once felt instinctive becomes harder to explain, harder to defend and harder to scale.
In the intelligence era, that challenge is amplified. Brands must remain coherent across more people, platforms and AI systems – all moving at a greater speed than ever before.
Nonfiction exists to bring clarity back to the centre: defining the essential idea and building the systems that allow a brand to scale without losing what makes it distinctive.

OUR CAPABILITIES
1
Strategy
We find the essential idea at the heart of an organisation and turn it into a clear direction for the brand. A strategy that sharpens decisions, aligns people and creates a distinctive position built to endure.
Brand Positioning
Purpose and Promise
Audience and Insight
Brand Architecture
Narrative and Messaging
Innovation Strategy
2
Visual Identity
We translate strategy into distinctive verbal and visual systems. From identity and language to the principles that guide their use, we create brands that are recognisable, coherent and capable of evolving without losing their character.
Naming
Visual Identity
Verbal Identity
Motion and Sound
Design Systems
Guidelines and Governance
3
Experience
We bring the brand to life across the moments that matter. Connecting environments, communications, products and services into experiences that feel coherent, useful and unmistakably yours – wherever and however people encounter you.
Animation
Art Direction
Campaign Delivery
Film Production
Packaging
Photography
Print
Social Content
Wayfinding
Web Design & development
1
Strategy
We find the essential idea at the heart of an organisation and turn it into a clear direction for the brand. A strategy that sharpens decisions, aligns people and creates a distinctive position built to endure.
Brand Positioning
Purpose and Promise
Audience and Insight
Brand Architecture
Narrative and Messaging
Innovation Strategy
2
Visual Identity
We translate strategy into distinctive verbal and visual systems. From identity and language to the principles that guide their use, we create brands that are recognisable, coherent and capable of evolving without losing their character.
Naming
Visual Identity
Verbal Identity
Motion and Sound
Design Systems
Guidelines and Governance
3
Experience
We bring the brand to life across the moments that matter. Connecting environments, communications, products and services into experiences that feel coherent, useful and unmistakably yours – wherever and however people encounter you.
Animation
Art Direction
Campaign Delivery
Film Production
Packaging
Photography
Print
Social Content
Wayfinding
Web Design & development
OUR CLIENTS
Air New Zealand
AGLX
Auckland Airport
Auckland Transport
Aware Group
Bayleys Realty
Belterra Property
Black Pearl Group
BDO
CCL
Cello
Coca Cola Euro Pacific Partners
Debt Managers
Dev Academy
Go Rentals
International Cricket Council
ICHM
Institute of Golf
Mercury Energy
Methven
Mānawa Bay
Manukau Institute of Technology
Magnetic Recruitment
Mooven
NZ Tourism
NZ Design Week
No Ugly
New Zealand Cricket
Point 16
Pullman Hotels
Qrious
Ray White
RDNZ
Seequent
Spark Business Group
Tend
Tainui Group Holdings
Todd Property
Unity Bank
Unitec
United Supply Co.
UP Education
Vallion
Westpac
Yoobee Colleges
Air New Zealand
AGLX
Auckland Airport
Auckland Transport
Aware Group
Bayleys Realty
Belterra Property
Black Pearl Group
BDO
CCL
Cello
Coca Cola Euro Pacific Partners
Debt Managers
Dev Academy
Go Rentals
Qrious
Ray White
RDNZ
Seequent
Spark Business Group
Tend
Tainui Group Holdings
Todd Property
Unity Bank
Unitec
United Supply Co.
UP Education
Vallion
Westpac
Yoobee Colleges
International Cricket Council
ICHM
Institute of Golf
Mercury Energy
Methven
Mānawa Bay
Manukau Institute of Technology
Magnetic Recruitment
Mooven
NZ Tourism
NZ Design Week
No Ugly
New Zealand Cricket
Point 16
Pullman Hotels
Air New Zealand
AGLX
Auckland Airport
Auckland Transport
Aware Group
Bayleys Realty
Belterra Property
Black Pearl Group
BDO
CCL
Cello
Coca Cola Euro Pacific Partners
Debt Managers
Dev Academy
Go Rentals
Qrious
Ray White
RDNZ
Seequent
Spark Business Group
Tend
Tainui Group Holdings
Todd Property
Unity Bank
Unitec
United Supply Co.
UP Education
Vallion
Westpac
Yoobee Colleges
International Cricket Council
ICHM
Institute of Golf
Mercury Energy
Methven
Mānawa Bay
Manukau Institute of Technology
Magnetic Recruitment
Mooven
NZ Tourism
NZ Design Week
No Ugly
New Zealand Cricket
Point 16
Pullman Hotels
ABOUT US
Nonfiction is a strategic branding & design consultancy founded in 2021 by Creative Director Nick Riley.
We’re lucky to be working with some of New Zealand's most exciting businesses - from established corporates to new startups. We specialise in the technology & consumer categories delivering clarity, simplicity and impact - building real brand value for our clients & partners.
If you would like to know more about our approach, or discuss an upcoming project,
Please email us at info@nonfiction.co.nz
Or call us on +64.21.263.7729
If you would like to know more about our approach, or discuss an upcoming project,
Please email us at info@nonfiction.co.nz
Or call us on +64.21.263.7729
If you would like to know more about our approach, or discuss an upcoming project,
Please email us at info@nonfiction.co.nz
Or call us on +64.21.263.7729
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