Uniting Creative is a professional and specialist team committed to producing quality and affordable communication outcomes.
The tight-knit team combines skills in marketing, media and journalism with graphic design, web design and photography.
Away from the office we moonlight as football reporters, short story writers, film reviewers, rock photographers and fantasy chefs – diverse interests which inform our creative synergy and perspective.
Uniting Creative has many years of experience working with churches, not-for-profits and other businesses.
Together we’ll find competitive, striking and ethically-consistent solutions to your communication requirements. From strategy to delivery, we’ll tailor our work to help bring your message and image to life. Contact us now to get started!
We also provide internships for suitably qualified students. Click here to apply.
Adrian Drayton — Art director/print production coordinator
Design is not about flashy gimmicks, but about putting all the elements – typography and imagery – into new relationships.
You can tell good design, Adrian says, when something catches your eye and won’t let go.
He knows that there’s a wealth of research and imagination — work and play — behind successful design that strikes just the right visual balance.
Adrian has delivered this balance to Uniting Creative clients as art director for well over a decade, and built on a degree in visual arts with professional development in web design and marketing.
He’s happy to meet you and discuss how Uniting Creative can work to your budget, launching or refreshing your brand or product.
You may already know him from his role as film critic on Hope 103.2’s breakfast radio program, or as the founder of Reel Dialogue, an online resource for combining faith and culture.
Chloe Scheul — Administration and customer liaison
Need something from Uniting Creative? Thorough, helpful and attentive, Chloe will ensure your needs are responded to as soon as possible.
As Uniting Creative’s Receptionist and Administrative Assistant, Chloe is your first point of contact with our services. Her personable nature and attention to detail is an asset to both staff and clients.
She conducts customer liaison, accounts management, office maintenance, proofreading and a myriad of other tasks that both directly — and indirectly — help our clients. And she juggles all these tasks with a calm head and a cheery attitude.
Chloe is enrolled in a Double Degree — Bachelor of Nursing and Bachelor of Arts (International Studies) — at UTS. In her spare time she enjoys playing the flute, reading and creative pursuits such as writing and photography.
Deb Everist — Web and print designer
Deb believes in clean and effective websites that don’t lose people in their vortex — and she knows how to build them.
She published her first site in 1993 and has spent the following 16 years constructing user-friendly online identities for church and not-for-profit organisations.
Deb loves the sort of fiddly tasks that infuriate the rest of us, is delighted by various USB novelty items, and collects James Kent English china.
Kimberly Almarza — Public Relations/Promotions Officer
Kimberly’s strong background in public relations and her tertiary qualifications in media, writing, finance and marketing position her extremely well to serve our clients’ diverse and often unique communications needs. She has broad-ranging experience working for media consultancies serving local, national and international clients. She also has a passion to use her skills to communicate effectively for non-profit organisations like the Uniting Church who want to make a difference in the world.
As the Synod’s Mission Promotions Officer, responsible for Living is Giving, Kimberly is closely involved with coordinating and implementing creative marketing strategies that work.
Her strengths include well-developed research and writing skills, clear thinking, quality service and public relations and marketing management.
Away from the hustle and bustle of the office, Kimberly fancies herself as a master chef and enjoys regularly setting up dinner dates for unsuspecting friends.
Lyndal Irons — Journalist, subeditor and photographer
Building on her Communications Degree, Lyndal’s more than five years with Uniting Creative has given her keen insight into how to most-effectively fulfil the communications needs of our clients. Lyndal’s journalism and subediting skills (currently being sharpened through advanced training) can help your print, online publication or other promotional materials blossom. Her passion for, and skills in, photography — and her unique eye — will help your products shine.
Lyndal is dedicated to all stages of the creative process — from research through to delivery — and works easily and effectively with clients to help ensure excellence.
Away from work, she makes the most delightful cards and notepads and writes insightful liner notes for music collections she compiles for friends.
Marjorie Lewis-Jones — Manager Uniting Creative and Editor Insights
Marjorie is a gifted writer with over 25 years experience in government, community, not-for-profit and religious communication. She guides the thought-provoking Insights magazine to production each month and will ensure our staff pursue your project with attention to detail, focus on outcome and sensitivity to deadlines.
Remember when people paid close, eager attention to and were intensely affected by words on a page? When integrity and quality mattered more than cant and quantity? That’s what Marjorie hopes you’ll rediscover when you work with Uniting Creative.
Stephen Webb — Media relations and Deputy Editor Insights
Stephen has been a journalist, editor, senior media/public relations specialist and communications manager with churches and not-for-profit organisations in Australia and internationally for more than 25 years.
Stephen is committed to creating the best possible communications outcomes for clients that are tailored to meet their ethical commitments, budgets, expectations and, where possible, their dreams.
His strengths include superlative reporting skills, targeting communication to solve issues, subediting to strengthen communication, networking to produce results and taking excellent photographs.
