Partnerships of mutual inspiration
A creative partnership
Founded by Quan Payne, our studio is channel agnostic and believes in storytelling with outstanding quality.
At the heart of Studio Payne is a passion to inspire—bringing visions to life through emotive, beautiful and refined creative.
Our Team
Quan Payne
A passionate creative leader with a distinguished career spanning the United States, Australia and South Africa. He has built holistic brands, campaigns, and creative solutions for some of the world’s most iconic companies including Google, Nike, Speedo, Swarovski, Calvin Klein, TATA, Dexus, GPT, CBUS Property, ISPT, Charter Hall, Mirvac, and Woolworths.
Nadine Thiedeke
Nadine is a trusted partner to her clients with experience across identity, campaign, print, media, and digital. Specialising in strategy, copywriting, and project management—she has worked with brands the likes of Bacardi, Global Payments, Royal United Services Institute, Dexus, GPT, ISPT, and QLD Government.
Kirsten Paulsen
As a Monash Business School graduate, Kirsten focuses on organisational growth through strategic management and sustainable, purposeful partnerships. She has supported innovation in iconic brands as Woolworths, Marks & Spencer, and Chobani.
Nicole Giannenas
Nicole is an award-winning designer that pushes boundaries to create meaningful design. Nicole has experience in branding and campaigns across a wide range of sectors including culture, lifestyle, hospitality, and property. She has worked with Melbourne Museum, Woolworths Macro, Little National Hotel, QV Melbourne, 80 Collins, Art of Soule, Genius Childcare and Play-Ground coffee. During her time at Studio Payne, she has been awarded at the Melbourne Design Awards and AGDA Design Awards—representing Swinburne University at Business of Design Week (BODW) in Hong Kong.
Senior Designer
Ann Chen
Ann is focused on creating narrative driven and unique design solutions. She has worked on a range of national and international retail and lifestyle brands including repositioning Macro—Australia’s largest organic brand—and developing award winning brands for the former design director of Soho house, Linda Boronkay and her project, Osborn House Hotel. Further experience includes repositioning JCDecaux’s brand, creating campaigns for Tourism Victoria, and rebranding Burwood One shopping centre. Ann has also been recognised by RMIT and awarded the RMIT Gold Folio Award.
Senior Designer
Khoi Nguyen
Khoi graduated from Swinburne University with an Honours degree in Communication Design. Coming from the world of sports and government, his curiosity and ambition to achieve more found him at Studio Payne. He is drawn to clever ideas and bold, clean design. His hunger to learn and grow is his north star for creating thoughtful and thought-provoking work.
Designer
Erika Rajic
Erika graduated from Swinburne University of Technology in 2023, completing her internship at Davidson Branding. She is drawn to typography, publication design and branding. She is inspired by design that solves problems and aims to create impactful work throughout her career.
Designer
Bailey Wentworth
Bailey graduated from Swinburne University with a degree in communication design and marketing. During his course he spent a year working with their in-house design studio The Bureau and received a Merit and Finalist AGDA award for two of his projects. His passions lie in branding, typography and publication design. His design philosophy is rooted in a genuine love for the craft and the environment, delivering thoughtful solutions that blend minimalist functionality with creativity.
Designer
Glocielle Nera
Glo joins our team as part of her Swinburne University program, developing her journey as a talented motion designer.
Design Intern
Selected Clients
