Kia ora and g’day. It’s been a huge year.

Across Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia, our customers have been doing work that goes beyond clever ideas. Creating projects that shift thinking, spark change and as a result, have brought home some well deserved awards. We’re proud to play a little part as part of the behind-the-scenes operational cogs, helping creatives focus on being creative.

From an Auckland motion graphics studio landing a Cannes Lions to campaigns reshaping conversations about masculinity, we’ve been cheering you on.

So to wrap up the year, we’re showcasing a few award winning projects from 2025 that truly took our breath away.

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Headjam – Yarn It Out

Awards:

• Good Design Award, Gold Award, Social Impact
• Good Design Award, Gold Award, Advertising and Campaigns

Headjam stepped in to help tackle a heartbreaking reality. In 2022, suicide accounted for 4.6 per cent of all deaths among First Nations people, with rates for those aged 25 to 44 more than three times higher than for non Indigenous Australians. Working with Galambila, the leading Aboriginal health service in Coffs Harbour, they created Yarn It Out, a culturally safe suicide prevention campaign built around one powerful idea: talk it through. Headjam collaborated closely with Elders, storytellers, artists and two strong Indigenous voices, rapper Kobie Dee and Barkaa.

Every choice was guided by culture and lived experience. The message reached people where they were, from social media to TV to the streets, opening space for honest conversations that can save lives. The campaign earned two Good Design Gold Awards and showed the impact we can create when First Nations people lead the work that speaks to their communities. It is creative work at its best. Brave, respectful and guided with care.

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Vert Design – MECCA Sample Pots

Awards:

• Good Design Award, Gold Award, Product

Vert Design reimagined MECCA’s sample pots to reflect their values of sustainability, boldness and care. The team created something beautifully simple and refillable that makes the customer experience feel special while reducing waste. Every decision, from the form to the materials, came back to one question: how can we make something good for people and kind to the planet? In a world of throwaway packaging, this design feels refreshingly thoughtful and real, proving that beauty and sustainability can sit happily side by side.

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Anthologie – This Is Manly

Awards:

• Good Design Award, Advertising and Campaigns

This Is Manly takes a creative, youth-led approach to prevention, co-designed with young people who wanted to change how masculinity is seen and talked about. The campaign challenges stereotypes, celebrates positive male role models and redefines what it means to be manly through honest storytelling and bold visuals across Perth. By giving young men the microphone, it starts real conversations that build empathy and community from the ground up. Design that opens conversations and strengthens communities.

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Fuman - With Wonder — A Social Enterprise

Awards:

• AGDA Distinction, Design for Good
• AGDA Merit, Brand Identity
• AGDA Finalist, Packaging
• AGDA Finalist, Design Crafts(Typography for Design)

Fuman helped bring With Wonder to life, a social enterprise that blends art, creativity and mental health into therapeutic art boxes that support young people’s wellbeing. Each box offers a self-directed experience shaped with practising art therapists and psychotherapists, with every edition created alongside a New Zealand artist such as Lissy and Rudi, Jade Townsend or Te Ara Minhinnick. Fuman shaped the full product system and built a visual identity that feels clinically grounded yet warm and accessible for underprivileged youth. The design celebrates individuality, encourages self-expression and stays fluid and exploratory so every young person feels invited to take part. Every purchase helps fund Breathing Space’s charitable services or is gifted to rangatahi through community and health partners, supporting their one to many model that makes clinically informed, artist led care more accessible for all.

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Something™️  - ReAssembly

Awards:

• AGDA Merit, Design for Good

Something™️ helped power one of this year’s standout climate events with ReAssembly, a two day gathering during UNGA and Climate Week NYC that brought more than 800 people together to push climate innovation forward. They created the full brand identity with Andrew Suggit of Studio Henka, building a system centred on putting the pieces back together. A vibrant set of characters formed a united wordmark when assembled and lost meaning when apart, a clear reminder that real climate solutions rely on collaboration. The flexible identity supported talks from global leaders and cultural voices, with mentions from Leonardo DiCaprio and The Hollywood Reporter. Most importantly, the work sparked action focused conversations that helped move the climate conversation in a positive direction, showing how Streamtime customers use creativity to help build a better world.

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Studio Biggie - Habilis

Awards

• AGDA Merit, Design for Good

Studio Biggie’s work for Habilis brings a clear sense of purpose to a not for profit focused on long term homes for people living with chronic mental illness, specifically schizophrenia. In a system that leans on short term fixes, Habilis needed a brand that could build understanding, credibility and support so they could break the cycle of homelessness, hospitalisation and incarceration. The identity centres on one idea, breaking the pattern, with a brand mark and graphic system that move from fractured to whole and reflect the journey from crisis to stability. Warm, honest portrait photography keeps people at the heart of the story, while straightforward messaging speaks to urgency and hope. It all comes together to build trust across residents, families, government and donors. Mental illness and homelessness are often unseen or misunderstood, and Habilis shows that better outcomes are possible with the right support. This brand helps make that vision visible, offering a clear and optimistic path toward real, lasting change.

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Motion Sickness – Make New Zealand The Best Place In The World To Have Herpes

Awards:

• Cannes Lions Health and United Nations Grand Prix for Good
• AdFest 2025, Gold Lotus
• D&AD Wood Pencil, Writing for Design / Digital
• D&AD Wood Pencil, Entertainment / Scripted Short Form
• D&AD Wood Pencil, Writing for Advertising / Integrated
• DINZ Best Award, Gold Pin, TV/Online Video Campaign
• DINZ Best Award, Gold Pin, Digital Campaigns
• DINZ Best Award, Gold Pin, Design Communication
• DINZ Best Award, Gold Pin, Social Good Award
• DINZ Best Award, Silver Pin, Video Long Form 60” and over
• AGDA Distinction, Design for Good

The Best Place in The World to Have Herpes might sound unexpected, but that’s exactly the point. It’s a clever tourism-style campaign with a serious health message at its core. Through humour, honesty and a first-of-its-kind destigmatisation course, Motion Sickness managed to get people talking about something most avoid. With a video series, a live data ranking system and a whole lot of heart, the campaign showed that when we approach tough topics with empathy and a bit of laughter, design can connect people, break stigma and even bring a country together. Courageous, clever and deeply human.

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Motion Sickness – The Māori Roll Call

Awards:

• DINZ Best Award, Purple Pin, TV/Online Commercials, 60" & Under
• DINZ Best Award, Gold Pin, TV/Online Commercials, 60" & Under
• DINZ Best Award, Gold Pin, Digital Campaigns
• DINZ Best Award, Gold Pin, Design Communication
• DINZ Best Award, Gold Pin, Social Impact Award

Before the 2025 election, more than 120,000 Māori weren’t enrolled to vote, so Motion Sickness decided to change that. The Māori Roll Call turned something that could feel like paperwork into a movement for identity and pride. Led by Tāme Iti and grounded in Māori storytelling, the 30-minute film featured over 500 real names read aloud in one powerful take. By shining a light on people instead of statistics, it transformed voting into an act of belonging and connection, reminding Aotearoa that change starts with being counted. Design as protest. Design as pride. Design as connection.

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Extended Whānau – Together For Te Tiriti

Awards:

• DINZ Best Award, Purple Pin, Social Good Award
• DINZ Best Award, Gold Pin, Social Good Award
• DINZ Best Award, Silver Pin, Toitanga

Extended Whānau partnered with ActionStation Aotearoa to create Together for Te Tiriti, a campaign that celebrates kotahitanga and reminds all who call Aotearoa home that Te Tiriti is a shared, living commitment to partnership, equity and respect. Rooted in te ao Māori and inspired by the hongi, the work speaks to connection and the movement from strangers to true partners. It avoids shame and division, instead creating an open invitation to listen, reflect and stand together. The campaign picked up multiple awards at this year’s DINZ Awards for good reason. It shows how thoughtful, culturally grounded design can bring people into the conversation with care and purpose, helping strengthen understanding and unity when it is needed most.

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Milk – Honeysticks/Type Bee Book/Type Bee Type Family

Awards:

• DINZ Best Award, Gold Pin, Design Craft/Typography
• DINZ Best Award, Gold Pin, Large Brand Identity/Commercial
• DINZ Best Award, Bronze Pin, Packaging/FMCG
• AGDA Distinction, Brand & Identity
• AGDA Merit, Brand & Identity(Small Business)
• AGDA Merit, Design Crafts(Typography for Design)
• AGDA Merit, Design Crafts(Typeface Design)
• AGDA Merit, Print and Publications (Catalogues, Booklets & Brochures)

Honeysticks was born in Aotearoa New Zealand with a simple idea: make a safer, more sustainable crayon for kids to create with. Milk helped turn that idea into a global movement for playful, purposeful creativity. Each crayon is handmade from 100% beeswax, sustainably sourced and completely non-toxic, making them just as kind to the planet as they are to little hands. It’s a lovely reminder that sustainability isn’t about trends or labels, it’s about care, for both our children and the world they’ll grow up in. Design that’s pure, purposeful and full of joy.

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These projects are just a glimpse of the incredible work our customers have been recognised for this year. If we tried to list every award win, this blog would turn into a novel.

A special shoutout to long-time Streamtime legends Never Sit Still, who picked up five AGDA Distinctions and two Merits for their brilliant motion design. And big congrats to the Houston Group for taking home multiple wins across hospitality design.

To every one of our customers who celebrated a win this year: we see you, we admire you, and you’re the reason we keep showing up to make Streamtime better.

Good design isn’t just about pixels or polish, but about the impact it makes. To all our customers using creativity to make positive change in the world: we see you, we celebrate you, and we couldn’t be prouder to be part of your story. 💛

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