Author: Aaron Williams

Building up women in construction

A career in the construction industry is not one that many young women are encouraged to dream of. On this International Women’s Day, we take a look at stories of women working for construction giant and long-time Fenton client, Probuild. These women exemplify what it means to #BeBoldForChange – they challenge stereotypes and redefine what it takes to build a career in the construction industry.

Changing minds about violence against women

In Australia, violence against women is no longer regarded as a purely domestic problem. We now recognise it as a criminal justice problem, a social problem and importantly, a public health problem.

Flexible brands move to meet their audience

Fenton recently worked with Yarra Ranges Council to consolidate and refine their existing brand guidelines. The result was an easy to use ‘kit of parts’ consisting of the logo, colour palate and typeface. But this is just the starting point of a system for developing creative communication solutions that allow the Council to connect to different audience groups in the Yarra Ranges community.

Fenton team moves office

After 27 years in business, 14 years stationed at Bourke Street, we’ve moved south – about 450 meters south, to an iconic corner of Collins Street.

Trust: where words and actions meet

Last month I had the pleasure of attending the World Public Relations Forum in Madrid, which brought together hundreds of communication professionals from around the world.

Good blogs love company

In 2011, Washington Post reporter Brian Vastag asked us to “imagine a stack of CDs, each holding an album’s worth of digital music, shooting from the top of [our desks] to 50,000 miles beyond the moon.” Apparently that’s how many CDs it would take to store the digital data the world produces in just two months.