Grumpy Sailor
Creators of the Astonishingly
Unforgettable Experience.
We specialise in adventurous and ambitious creative experience projects
We work with organisations, cultural institutions, architects, businesses and brands that are looking to enhance lives and do some good in the world.
We are creative and technical elites
Our ability to create, code, build, film, paint and make means our team adapts to any media and any challenge - and challenges are how this special breed of talent gets off.
Curiosity, craft and tenacity are the hiring criteria for Grumpy Sailor. When creative misfits like this learn to play in teams, the impossible becomes probable.
Grumpy Sailor is Australia’s leading Creative Experience Design Studio
We’ll go to the ends of the Earth wrestling seemingly impossible technical challenges and squeezing out every last drop of our creative juices, but we won’t sell our souls. We aim to make a lasting impact on the world. Make no mistake, our work is here for GOOD.
![Grumpy Sailor | Australian Government - Royal Australian Mint](/assets/images/clients/au-gov-royal-au-mint.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | State Library Victoria](/assets/images/clients/state-library-vic.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | WWF](/assets/images/clients/wwf.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Asialink](/assets/images/clients/asialink.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | MOD](/assets/images/clients/mod.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Sydney Living Museums](/assets/images/clients/sydney-living-museums.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Google Cloud](/assets/images/clients/google-cloud.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Melbourne Museum](/assets/images/clients/melbourne-museum.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Google Creative Lab](/assets/images/clients/google-creative-lab.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Adelaide Fringe](/assets/images/clients/adelaide-fringe.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | ACMI](/assets/images/clients/acmi.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Starlight](/assets/images/clients/starlight.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Arts Centre Melbourne](/assets/images/clients/arts-centre-melbourne.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | NCM](/assets/images/clients/ncm.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | YouTube](/assets/images/clients/youtube.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | TAC](/assets/images/clients/tac.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Punch Drunk](/assets/images/clients/punchdrunk.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Bell Shakespeare](/assets/images/clients/bell-shakespeare.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Museum of Applied Arts & Science](/assets/images/clients/maas.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Te Papa](/assets/images/clients/te-papa.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | State Library New South Wales](/assets/images/clients/state-library-nsw.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Google](/assets/images/clients/google.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Art Gallery NSW](/assets/images/clients/art-gallery-nsw.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | SBS](/assets/images/clients/sbs.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Royal Shakespeare Company](/assets/images/clients/royal-shakespeare-company.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney](/assets/images/clients/the-royal-botanic-garden-sydney.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | University of Technology Sydney](/assets/images/clients/uts.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | MOAD](/assets/images/clients/moad.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Museums Victoria](/assets/images/clients/museums-victoria.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Sydney Opera House](/assets/images/clients/sydney-opera-house.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | National Sports Museum](/assets/images/clients/national-sports-museum.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Museum of Solutions](/assets/images/clients/muso.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Atlassian](/assets/images/clients/atlassian.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | PRF](/assets/images/clients/prf.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | AEC](/assets/images/clients/aec.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Office of Environment and Heritage](/assets/images/clients/office-of-environment-and-heritage.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | NGA](/assets/images/clients/nga.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Waverley Council](/assets/images/clients/waverley-council.jpg)
![Grumpy Sailor | Bondi Story Rooms](/assets/images/clients/bondi-story-rooms.jpg)
“Working collaboratively - even with the challenges of COVID and remote and multiple time zones - they were able to work with us to deliver some exceptional experiences that extended the original designs, built on our internal expertise and technologies, and then took them further.”
Seb Chan,
Chief Experience Officer,
ACMI
Awards and accolades
![Award](/assets/images/awards/2020-c2a-winner.png)
![Award](/assets/images/awards/2020-c2a-winner-2.png)
![Award](/assets/images/awards/2020_C2A_MH.png)
![Award](/assets/images/awards/2020-driven-design.png)
![Award](/assets/images/awards/2020-magna.png)
![Award](/assets/images/awards/2019-agda-winner.png)
![Award](/assets/images/awards/2019-agda-finalist.png)
![Award](/assets/images/awards/2019-glami-winner.png)
![Award](/assets/images/awards/2019-glami-winner-2.png)
![Award](/assets/images/awards/2020-good-design-gold-winner.png)
![Award](/assets/images/awards/2020-good-design-gold-winner.png)
![Award](/assets/images/awards/2020-good-design-gold-winner.png)
![Award](/assets/images/awards/2020-good-design-best-in-class.png)
![Award](/assets/images/awards/2021-good-design-winner.png)
![Award](/assets/images/awards/2021-good-design-winner.png)
![Award](/assets/images/awards/2021_AGDA_ACMI.png)
![Award](/assets/images/awards/2021_AGDA_ASM.png)
![Award](/assets/images/awards/2021_AGDA_Constellation.png)
![Award](/assets/images/awards/2021_AGDA_LLRC.png)
![Award](/assets/images/awards/2021_AGDA_HPB.png)
![Award](/assets/images/awards/2021_AGDA_Oddity.png)
“Grumpy Sailor’s democratic approach is why our project is going to be so special. Their attitude is not only respected by the many perspectives of our team but the incredibly diverse voices of the community.”
Tanya Goldberg
Executive Manager Communications,
Culture & Events,
Waverley Council,
Bondi Pavillion