“A marriage of unique combined strengths.” Motion Sickness introduces it’s new arm, Design Office

One look at the website of Motion Sickness, and it’s pretty hard to not get sucked right into their body of work. The New Zealand-based advertising agency, launched by Founder & Executive Creative Director Sam Stuchbury has mined its “culture of disruptive creativity” to shape a series of witty campaigns for leading brands. Interestingly, they’ve also used their craft to unspool societal issues in New Zealand and present them in an approachable way, often laced with a bit of humour – case in point, their viral ad for internet safety that drives home the message in a way that one probably won’t forget.

As their creative horizons have widened to include branding projects, Motion Sickness has launched a new arm of the agency – Design Office. We sit down with Stuchbury, who explains how Motion Sickness and the design agency “live in the same house, but sleep in separate beds,” which allows for “a marriage of unique combined strengths, while retaining the emotional space to be one’s own self,” he adds. Together, we take a look at the Design Office, its scope of work, and ‘Design Translator,’ a little treat on its website.

“We wanted to give design the love and attention it deserves within advertising.”

Sam Stuchbury
Founder & Executive Creative Director

“Many of the translations emerged from the weird world of email threads.”

Sam Stuchbury
Founder & Executive Creative Director