Lumenlea

Lumenlea

LUMENLEA

A cozy-game world reimagined as a real place to explore, gather and belong.

Lumenlea is an original blue-sky destination concept exploring how the emotional qualities of cozy games could translate into a physical, location-based experience. Rather than building the world around rides and constant stimulation, the concept focuses on atmosphere, discovery, social rituals and small moments of participation. Gardens, libraries, markets, workshops, lakeside spaces and seasonal gatherings come together to create a place designed not only to entertain guests, but to invite them to slow down, wander and stay awhile.

Creative Direction • Concept Development • Experience Design • Worldbuilding • Key Art (AI Enhanced)

CLARITY

The starting point was a simple question: what makes a cozy game feel cozy, and how could those qualities exist in the real world? The challenge was to move beyond familiar theme-park conventions and identify the behaviours, emotions and spatial qualities that define the genre, from collecting and crafting to exploration, relaxation, food, nature and community.

This established a clear creative principle for the project: Lumenlea should feel less like a sequence of attractions and more like a living world guests can inhabit at their own pace.

POSSIBILITY

From that foundation, we developed a series of environments and key-art concepts that expanded the world of Lumenlea. Ideas ranged from the Great Lumenlea Library and Village Market to craft spaces, fishing piers, greenhouses, bakeries, gardens and nighttime gathering places. Each concept explored a different form of participation, helping define what guests might actually do throughout an entire day.

The result was a richer vision of a destination built around curiosity, creativity, social connection and everyday rituals, where even reading a book, decorating a lantern or sharing a pastry could become part of the experience.

TRANSFORMATION

Lumenlea evolved from a visual fantasy into a broader experience philosophy: Adventure outside. Belonging inside.

The concept demonstrates how a location-based destination can create value through both spectacle and stillness, giving guests permission to explore, play, make, eat, collect, gather or simply exist within the world.

By treating small moments as attractions in their own right, Lumenlea proposes a different kind of theme-park experience, one shaped as much by emotional connection and dwell time as by traditional entertainment.

Redhero

Redhero

REDHERO GROUP

Redhero turns learning into your ultimate competitive advantage. Redhero heatmap’s the skill, knowledge and performance of the humans in your organisation in real time, then we move it, we measure it and we do it swiftly.

“Dave and his team have built us a brand we LOVE. He has brought that to life with our website, our pitch docs and creative ways that we can communicate our complex product offering to our customers. He’s the best. The best creatively. The best partner for our business and he is a deeply good human being.”

Lisa Parnis
CEO – Redhero Group

ThinkOTS

ThinkOTS

ThinkOTS

The World Expo experts. Working across all disciplines, design, art, and technology, ThinkOTS explores every idea that is relevant and then hones those concepts into the approaches that meet the curatorial intent and project budget. ThinkOTS is unique in this way we live the company brand, to ‘think outside the square’ to deliver the best value for the project. No matter what it is, no matter where it is, ThinkOTS will design it, make it and install it.

Aware

Aware

AWARE

Aware is one of the largest contract manufacturers of domestic and international personal care, skincare, homecare and TGA registered products in Australia. A passionate team proudly produce and market a stable of well known, iconic homecare and skincare brands, many of which have a long and rich history in the Australian market.

Client / Aware Environmental
Service / Branding & Digital

“We recently went through a re-branding exercise with Salted Caramel, as part of our preparation of an IPO. Dave delivered in spades for us. He was creative, efficient, quick, consultative and respectful, all in one. And even more significantly, he encouraged us to be bold even though we were under time and stakeholder pressure. I look forward to a long relationship with Dave because I trust his judgment and his manner is exceptional.”

Carl Walsh
CEO – Aware Group

MusicMill

MusicMill

MUSIC MILL

Music Mill is a professional music supervision company delivering music search and sync licensing services to the Asia Pacific Region since 1999. Music Mill has licensed well over $100M of songs, completed thousands of sync licence negotiations, and conducted numerous successful searches for songs to fit advertising campaign briefs.

Client – Music Mill
Services – Brand & Digital