Debbie has been helping businesses connect with people for over 15 years. She has worked across the globe, from Australia to Qatar, for a range of clients including Arts Council England, BBC, Department of Human Services, HSBC, Rest Super, Tate and Woolworths.
Debbie is responsible for leading cross-functional teams in the design and delivery of brand transformation, identity and experience. She has expertise in branding, brand strategy, digital strategy, design thinking, communications planning, ethnography, design research and user experience analysis.
We are a strategy, design and communications consultancy with three decades’ experience in inspiring brands to life.

Ant Donovan
Group Creative Director / Partner
Ant is an award-winning and innovative creative who has attracted widespread attention throughout his 15-year career. At Frost*collective, he helps our clients find creative, people-centred solutions to difficult brand problems. He has played a pivotal role in developing highly creative brand communications for a range of clients. His creative direction for the highly acclaimed, award-winning and ongoing ‘Ending HIV’ campaign launched in 2013 for health promotion organisation, ACON has successfully helped reduce HIV transmissions in NSW by 22%. Other notable campaigns are for Australian and international clients including Frasers Property Australia, AIG, Woolworths, Westfield and OzHarvest, as well as breakthrough design for the University of Wollongong.
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Jamaica Blue
Escape & refresh
jamaica blue
The shopping centre hospitality market is rapidly evolving. Flooded with independent cafés, coffee shops and highly-branded quick-service restaurants, people are demanding better quality experiences. Here, even legacy businesses need to reconnect with existing customers and attract new ones with a more relevant offer.
Jamaica Blue, one of Australia’s original coffee franchises launched in 1992, needed to sharpen its brand experience to stay competitive in this fluid retail landscape.
We needed to redefine the original brand, designing a seamless hospitality experience from top-to-bottom that aligns Jamaica Blue’s business objectives and what drives its existing and potential customers.
Working closely with Jamaica Blue, we developed the customer experience and brand strategy in parallel. Through this work, Jamaica Blue was able to rediscover what franchisees, employees and customers loved about the brand and its offer.

What is their Daily Grind?
The first step was to connect with customers, non-customers, franchisees and employees across regions and store types through a mix of interviews, in-store observations and focus groups.
Key learnings from this period revealed that existing customers love the Jamaica Blue experience; non-customers consider it dated and of average quality. The stores are comfortable, but just not visible enough in busy shopping centres. Finally, few people understand the brand’s connection to Jamaica or its range of food and coffee, but when they find out, they want to know more.
