A daughter walks through the front doors of a residential aged care home in Brisbane's north. She's touring for her mum, she's anxious, and she's already visited three other facilities this week. At the end of the tour, the admissions...
It's 9pm on 28 June. Your bookkeeper pings you on Slack: "There's a $4,620 invoice here from a merch company. It's coded to Miscellaneous. What is it?" It's the 500 branded drink bottles you ordered for the trade show in...
A standard Australian soft drink can holds 375ml. A regular flat white from your local café lands somewhere between 200ml and 250ml of actual liquid. Sit those two numbers side by side and something interesting falls out of the middle:...
A patient in Brunswick picks up her new frames on a Tuesday afternoon. The optometrist slides them into a hard case with the practice logo on the lid, tucks in a full-colour microfibre cloth printed with a retro eye-chart design,...
The USB-C connector standard is rated for 10,000 insertion cycles. That's the official spec. Plug it in and pull it out ten thousand times before the connector is allowed to wear out. Yet a shocking number of promotional cables die...
Five times a day. That's a conservative estimate of how often the average person handles their keys. Multiply it out and the numbers get interesting fast: Handles per day: 5 Days per year: 365 Handles per year: 5 × 365...
Final styling day on a Paddington terrace. The cushions are karate-chopped, the artwork is level, and the client is walking through rooms she barely recognises as her own house. The designer hands over the keys along with a cellophane-wrapped hamper....
It's 5:40pm on a Saturday. Your client has just spent three hours and $280 in your chair. Full head of foils, toner, blow-wave, the works. She looks incredible. And she walks out the door holding nothing but an EFTPOS receipt...
A council environmental health officer walks into a Fitzroy café mid-service. She clocks a branded tea towel draped over the open pastry cabinet, a bowl of giveaway stress balls parked next to the sandwich press, and a carton of promotional...
The average vehicle on Australian roads is more than ten years old, according to the ABS Motor Vehicle Census. Sit with that for a second. The sale takes one afternoon, but the ownership relationship runs for a decade, and every...
You've got a launch date circled on the calendar, a marketing budget that has to stretch, and a browser full of tabs showing pens, totes, drink bottles and stress balls. Every one of them could carry your logo. Most of...
A kelpie called Banjo has just had his annual check-up at a clinic in Geelong. His owner pays the bill, wincing slightly, and heads for the door. Then the vet nurse hands over a small collapsible water bowl with the...
