About

Senior designers. No runaround.

Soapbox Design is a senior-led design studio helping established Australian businesses build trust at every touchpoint. We have been doing this for over 25 years and we have chosen, deliberately, to keep doing it the same way.

The Soapbox Story

Soapbox Design was built on a simple frustration: too many good businesses were being let down by design that did not reflect the quality of what they actually did. Not because they lacked ambition - but because they kept working with studios that prioritised aesthetics over commercial outcome, or handed their account to a junior the moment the contract was signed.

What We Believe

Strategy before aesthetics.

Beautiful design that does not connect to a commercial goal is decoration. We start every project by understanding what it needs to achieve - for your business and for your customers. Design decisions follow from that.

Senior expertise on every project.

You hire Soapbox because of the experience and judgement that comes with 25+ years of working with established businesses. That expertise is what you get - not a brief that gets handed down the chain.

Long-term thinking.

Many of our clients have been working with us for ten, fifteen, or more years. That is not an accident. We design foundations that last, give honest advice even when it is not what someone wants to hear, and measure success by what happens to a business - not by what wins an award.

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Many of our clients have been working with us for ten, fifteen, or more years. That is not an accident. We design foundations that last, give honest advice even when it is not what someone wants to hear, and measure success by what happens to a business - not by what wins an award.

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Many of our clients have been working with us for ten, fifteen, or more years. That is not an accident. We design foundations that last, give honest advice even when it is not what someone wants to hear, and measure success by what happens to a business - not by what wins an award.

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Founder: Lisa Hastie

Lisa Hastie builds brands that carry authority. With 25 years of experience across brand strategy, identity, and digital, she works with established Australian founders who have outgrown how they present. 

Recognised as one of Australia's most experienced brand strategists, her career spans brand identity, packaging, web design, and digital marketing - working with businesses from founder-led independents to established market leaders across professional services, healthcare, consumer goods, and e-commerce. 

Her career started at Roche Pharmaceuticals, where she moved from a science role into marketing and discovered something that has shaped everything since: even the best products/services get ignored if they aren’t presented with the credibility they deserve. 

Today, through Soapbox Studio, Lisa works specifically with established Australian founders whose businesses have outgrown their brand. The work is focused on one outcome: closing the gap between what a business has built and how it appears, so the brand carries authority before the founder walks into the room. 

The best businesses deserve to compete on equal terms. Soapbox Studio exists to make sure they do.

Soapbox Design

Soapbox Design is the execution studio - websites, brand identity, packaging, email design, and ongoing design support for businesses that know what they need built.

Soapbox Studio is the strategic consultancy - brand positioning, the Trust Bridge Framework, and brand audit work for businesses that need to think through what their brand needs to do before investing in execution.

Some clients engage Design directly. Some start with Studio and move to Design. Some use both in parallel. The connection between the two means the thinking and the doing are never out of step.

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strong years in business

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projects, across multiples of platforms

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long-term client partnership

What they said

Client reviews

Verified Customer Reviews
Lisa and her team developed a professional and adaptable website for the Kokoda Track Memorial Walkway. We thoroughly recommend Soapbox for all your website, graphic design and branding needs.

John Hall

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