The team is a mix. Creative, technical, practical, opinionated. Some of us make noise, some of us make spreadsheets. What we share is a habit of starting things. New ideas, new approaches, new ways forward. This thinking is what helps keep the work unique and relevant, and positions our clients as leaders in their space.
Most design looks like most other design. Safe and predictable. We ask the uncomfortable questions that dig into the problems we’re being asked to solve. The result? Work that earns attention and makes Perth brands hard to ignore.
The right technology depends on the problem you’re actually trying to solve. We create unique websites, AI tools, SASS platforms and digital products – all built here in Perth, by the people who manage every aspect of your project.
Creative without data is guesswork. Data without creativity is bland. Most agencies pick a side – we’d rather do the harder thing and build campaigns that have both. That’s where the results are.
Beating Lady Gaga, Apple Music, and Soundcloud
to win a Webby for the RTRFM website.
Recognised for work with Joondalup Festival, Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre, Pacific Energy, and our own site - plus a Rising Star nod for Cullen Webber. Read More
Ranking on Google used to be the whole game - optimise your site, build backlinks, add keywords. But it's 2026 and Google isn't the only way people search anymore. Online search has changed - and is changing rapidly. Read More
We asked the visually literate leg of our team what’s shaping 2026. The answer wasn’t singular, but it was clear. Taste is back in the driver’s seat. Read More
What does The Start do?
We’re a Perth studio working on design, brand, websites, marketing and AI – usually more than one of those on the same project. We’ve been at it since 2014, with clients across Australia and a few further afield. Everything’s built in-house by our team of sixteen. No templates, no offshoring, no beige.
Two things, really. The first is that the team you brief is the same team that builds the work – the person in your kickoff call is the one designing or coding it a week later. The second is that we lead with creativity rather than templates, which is harder, slower, and occasionally won us things: a Webby, eight Australian Web Awards and a couple of Good Designs Australia awards.
We’re based in Perth, but most of our work travels. Our clients are spread across Australia and beyond, and the WA market knowledge tends to help rather than limit – it’s shaped how we think, without narrowing who we think for.
Do you work on both the design and the development of a website?
Yes. Our designers and developers sit facing each other in the studio, which is the single biggest reason our sites actually ship the way they were designed. It means clean code, real SEO foundations, a custom CMS, and room to grow.
With a proper strategy, not guesswork. We cover SEO, GEO, social media and paid – all of it tied back to results you can see on a live dashboard whenever you want, not a quarterly PDF.
Most projects run between eight and sixteen weeks from strategy to launch, depending on scope. You’ll get a clear timeline upfront and full access to our project board, so you can see where things are at any time. No radio silence, no surprise delays
Easiest way is to drop us a line or call (08) 6245 9847. We’ll have a proper conversation about where you’re at and where you want to get to, and work out together whether we’re the right fit.
