News and milestones

All newsMajor milestones

February 19, 2021

Zinger

Welcoming our newest good boy - Zinger!

Zinger

January 18, 2021

Medical research

Working with our heart-warming friends at The Common Good on donor behaviour strategies to further fund important medical research.

Medical research

January 6, 2021

Sunshine Coast

Soaking up all things travel, behaviour, and design for a brand engagement project with Sunshine Coast Council.

Sunshine Coast

November 27, 2020

#OLDMATE Report

Releasing new research into the impact of COVID-19 on elder Australians and how the pandemic and associated restrictions  have increased feelings of social isolation and loneliness.

#OLDMATE Report

November 26, 2020

UNLEASH Hacks · Australia

Recovering from hosting the UNLEASH Australia Hack for the SDGs, focusing on social isolation and loneliness. Well done to all the teams!

UNLEASH Hacks · Australia

September 29, 2020

Kai

Welcoming the latest visionary to the spur: team: Kai, a seeing eye dog in training who'll be living with us for the next few months preparing for his important job ahead.

Kai

September 15, 2020

VRGF

Co-Director Lee Crockford is Joining the board of the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation to help reduce harm associated with gambling.

VRGF

September 8, 2020

Good Design Award

Winning a 2020 Good Design Award for our project to reduce social isolation, #OLDMATE.

Good Design Award

September 2, 2020

DSR Podcast

Talking about designing for social impact on the the DSR Branding Podcast

DSR Podcast

August 13, 2020

Afterain

Prototyping a new product for mental wellbeing by combining mindfulness and creativity.

Afterain

July 9, 2020

B-Well Branding

Designing a fresh new brand for B-Team Australasia's upcoming corporate wellbeing initiative.

B-Well Branding

July 9, 2020

UNLEASH Hacks

Organising the Australian UNLEASH Hack for 2020 focusing on how to reduce loneliness and social isolation.

UNLEASH Hacks

May 7, 2020

Toucan

Building Toucan: A digital, mental health tool for organisations and teams to understand the wellbeing of their communities.

Toucan

May 7, 2020

123+ Consulting

Providing pro-bono strategy and advice to projects working to improve the mental wellbeing and health of LGBTIQ+ communities.

123+ Consulting

May 4, 2020

GiveOUT

Finalising a fundraising and engagement strategy for Australian LGBTIQ+ charity, GiveOUT.

GiveOUT

May 4, 2020

Isolation Activities

Adapting to isolation and working from home, including setting up a balcony farm, endeavours in pickling, and writing kids books. Also washing our hands a lot.

Isolation Activities

May 4, 2020

LHD Co-Design

Working to improve outcomes for suicide prevention, through co-design with lived experience individuals and suicide prevention non-profit, Roses in the Ocean.

LHD Co-Design

January 1, 2020

Elder Digital Platform

Co-designing a tool for remote connection between elderly, family, and volunteers with Be.

Elder Digital Platform

July 14, 2017

SPUR:LABS Launch

Spur Labs launches at The Capital, Brisbane.

SPUR:LABS Launch

July 15, 2014

Soften the Fck Up

Launching our first ever campaign, Soften the Fck Up to make it an easier option for Aussie men to take action for their mental health.

Soften the Fck Up
January 2012
Co-founder Dan finishes the economics degree he promised his mum he’d complete, only to never use it and start his own clothing business (love you mum).
June 2016
Adam catches wind of Dan’s early success and slides into his DM offering help. Dan politely accepts.
August 2017
After collectively failing a number of business ventures, Dan and Adam finally have their first break. Together they build Lumio with a team of 7 other legends.

Lumio, previously called Foenix, was a social media analytics company that helped brands like Audi, David Jones and Red Balloon source legitimate influencers for social media campaigns.

“We were essentially the Instagram police and called out fake influencers left, right and centre. It was fun and all, but there is only so many bikini chicks you can look at on Instagram before you start losing your mind.”

Dan, Co-founder and CEO of Lumio

April 2018
Lumio gets acquired by German company, Influencer DB. Yeww! 🎉

“After this, we both took up golf on during the week and started eating fancy dinners at the local Country Club... Ha. This is not what happened at all. We suck at golf and love eating Guzman Y Gomez.”

Adam, Co-founder of Lumio

June 2018
Dan is shipped off to work with ze Germans as Head of Product at Influencer DB.

Adam decides to stay in Sydney and cut his teeth as a Product Designer with one of Sydney's leading design studios.

Whilst in Germany, Dan worked with with brands such as Daniel Wellington and BMW - Ja!

Adam worked with clients like Vodafone, TAFE NSW, Adobe and also won the 'Good Design Australia' award for his work on the Seatfrog website.

November 2019
After spending time apart, Dan and Adam begin to plan their next moves and rekindle their business partnership.

The name "Relume" is born.

relume

verb

[ri-loom]
To relight or rekindle (a light, flame, etc.)

January 2020
Dan moves back to Sydney to join a Global startup incubator called Antler. He convinces Adam to join him.
April 2020
🚀 relume launches
For various reasons, Dan and Adam decide to turn down a $100,000 investment from Antler and start their own business venture, without taking outside investment.

To do this they would have to build a company that would be profitable in its first year. Not the next Uber of *insert clever idea*.

June 2020
After building 11 websites on Webflow in under 6 weeks as a way to test a number of business ideas, Dan and Adam decide to stick to what they know best and launch Relume - a company that designs and builds beautiful Webflow websites.

“Relume was an opportunity for us to build a profitable business, not a startup that bleeds cash, whilst doing what we love to do. It also allows us to learn about all types of businesses and the problems they deal with. These are all opportunities that we could potentially solve for in the future. For now, our goal is simple, we want to build a kickass business which means we really want our customers and the Webflow community to succeed too.”

Dan, Co-founder of Relume