oh2 Creative Studio
oh2 is a creative studio.
We build dynamic brands.
oh2 is the new creative studio of proven collaborators
Ben Handy and John O’Leary.Across a 25+ year partnership Ben and John have worked in top advertising agencies in NZ and overseas, built their own successful independent agency over 15 years and accepted an offer (they couldn’t refuse) to sell to a global network.
With the experience of helping many businesses achieve commercial success, oh2 collaborates with today’s business-people as their call-up creative partner.
We help navigate the confusion and simplify the outcomes with dynamic, multi-layered brand ideas.
We understand the need for clients to have high partner input within a lower cost model.
Our overhead costs are intentionally lower.
Idea delivery doesn’t suffer.We work on a project basis or within a more ingrained structure.
- CHEMISTRY
Our process brings business people together with creative people.
An effervescent co-lab that achieves success far greater than if the two parts were kept separate.
A highly endorsed method, it produces work that achieves the shared objective – to make Client A famous and increase her/his/their profits.
- MATTER
Fundamentally, we aim to help build brands that matter, that make a difference in the lives of people who engage with them.
Profitability will always be the ultimate end game, but the void in the middle of a ‘sell it____buy it’ transaction can be the game changing ingredients missing from a good business.
Brands that set out to matter, succeed.
Brands that believe in and build an engaging authentic culture are magnetic.
It’s important.
And it’s profitable too.
-VIGOUR
We are creative business people.
We don’t tell people in business how to run their business, they’ll be much better at that than we would be.
We help explore fresh perspectives, define new possibilities.
We work to find the missing and make it unmissable.
How
things
are made
here.
1. Find ingredients.
2. Mix.
3. Apply heat.
4. Churn.
5. Chill.
6. Voila.
We use AI.
We don’t turn to AI for ideation. We look to our clever, insightful people for that.
We don’t use AI to write for us. Experienced people with pens, pencils or keyboards produce more authentic, down to earth launguage.
We do use AI as a visual tool, just as our designers and art directors have used Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Pro and other similar software for years.
If AI is right for the role and what we output looks and sounds great, we’ll use it.
If it isn’t and it doesn’t, we won’t.
In the end, there is no substitute for a good idea.
We do not limit the application of creativity to a predetermined list.
The premise of asking What If? cannot be limited to a finite menu.
But for those of you who like a good list of services summarised in a nutshell, here you go.
Brand Development
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Brand strategy and positioning
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Visual identity systems
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Messaging, narrative, and brand story
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Differentiation and competitor distinction
Culture & Internal Alignment
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Defining or resetting organisational culture
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Embedding values and behaviours
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Internal brand engagement
Creative Content Production
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End-to-end content creation for all channels
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Concept development and storytelling
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Campaign assets and multi-platform execution
Design & Digital
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Website design and build
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Graphic design
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Posters and print collateral
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Digital communication assets
Motion & Audio
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Motion graphics and corporate video
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Commercial and promotional films
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Audio content: podcasts, radio, voice
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Editing, production, and delivery
Marketing & Communication
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Social media strategy and content
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Email marketing
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Internal communications
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Corporate and sales team communication systems
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