Matt Strempel Email & Phone Number

Australia

Suhm is a company created to satisfy our desire to make our own art. As designers, we have always enjoyed making art, but it’s always been for someone else. When we wanted to design a circle, the client would want a triangle and a square with a gradient and a drop shadow. And they’d want it twice as big. Suhm was born from our desire to make the art we’ve always loved.

Sydney, Australia

After 10 years working with big teams, big offices, big personalities and the occasional big budget, I co-founded John and John with Phil Clark. We started our own design company to focus on what we love: doing good creative work simply and effectively.

Sydney, Nsw

Impossible to summarise a ten year career at fatfish and do it any justice, so I'm not going to even try.My first day at fatfish – then in St Kilda – was a cold, dreary and memorably wet Melbourne day. I parked my car too far away (before Google Maps) and was wearing a woolen jumper. I was 30 minutes late, drenched, and smelled like a sheep. It was good of them to keep me on as they did.After 5 years in Melbourne the opportunity was given to me to join the Sydney branch of fatfish.You don't see many people lasting 5 years in one job, let alone 10, and it's for this reason I will be forever thankful that the opportunities and variety of briefs given to me has shaped me to be able to confidently stride out on my own.

Melbourne, Australia

As a junior layout artist I was, in essence, taking an Art Directors drunken scribbles on napkin and creating first-round drafts of magazine ads and brochures. While the job itself was monotonous and completely uninspiring, the environment was the complete opposite. The energy and dynamic personalities mixed with high-pressure deadlines and the relentless pursuit for coming up with great ads changed my focus from just being a designer. I wanted to write ads too.After 12 months an opportunity to join a small creative team came up and I began my 10-year journey with fatfish creative.I'll never forget my leaving day at Singos. My then Art Director announced to the small crowd of my colleagues that he was glad to see me go. I was briefly confused until he clarified that he was glad to see me go because he knew I had a great deal more to give than this place could offer.