Match Artists

For twenty years Match were New Zealand's leading photographic agency. Then their photographers stopped being only photographers: motion work grew until the old name no longer fit.

Match Photographers relaunched as Match Artists, with an identity, website and magazine built to carry the wider brief. The design stays deliberately out of the way: simple, precise, and executed to the standard of the work it represents.

Deliverables

Identity design, website design and development.

Technology

Nuxt, GSAP

Impact

Elevated Match beyond photography into a broader creative agency.

Match Artists website on a tablet with the large M logo and a hand squeezing an orange on yellow
Match Artists website on a tablet showing black and white behind-the-scenes photos from shoots
Match Artists website on a tablet showing a man in an orange jacket with an orange slice in his mouth against aqua
Match Artists website on a tablet showing photographer Fraser Clements' profile text
Match Artists website on a tablet showing agent contact details beneath a food photograph
Match Artists website on a tablet showing a film still of a man in a white coat running in a snowy doorway
Match Artists website on a tablet showing Ross Brown's portrait of a young man holding a rifle against a concrete wall
Match Artists website on a tablet showing Ross Brown's portrait of Lorde in a green brocade jacket
Match Artists website on a tablet showing a model in a dark suit carrying leather bags for Yu Mei
Match Artists website on three phones showing artist pages for Steven Boniface, Fraser Clements and Vanessa Wu
Cover of Match Artists' Momento magazine issue 1 with a portrait of a young man in a white cap on teal
Match Artists Momento magazine spread with a large number 1 over a photo of white rock formations and a lake
Match Artists Momento magazine page with artist names repeated in a dense typographic pattern
Match Artists Momento magazine spread showing Fraser Clements' Delsey campaign with a woman and a suitcase among white rocks
Match Artists Momento magazine page showing Ross Brown's Toyota campaign with an SUV in a forest
Match Artists Momento magazine spread reading Aotearoa's Agency over black and white behind-the-scenes photos
Cover of Match Artists' Momento magazine showing a person from behind in a white cap and brown jacket