The power of a great team comes down to the collaboration between a diverse set of people, skills, and personalities. With our clients, our collaborators, and each other, we always work in partnership.
Collaboration is at the heart of our agency. It creates a culture, that hand in hand with talent forms our high-performing team.
We believe every project benefits from our collective expertise. And because we trust one another and hold ourselves to account, we encourage positive debate to always challenge our thinking against the brief.
As an independent agency, we place great value on the working relationships we build within our studio, with our clients, and suppliers. Our founders and senior members lead and oversee all work to maintain quality throughout the lifespan of a project.
Our knowledge and passion for drinks shapes who we are. We’re spirited specialists and that means our curiosity is never quenched. We’re wired to continually educate ourselves through tailored tastings, distillery, winery and brewery tours, and cultural outings. Even the bottle we open on a Friday matters. We believe the deeper our collective understanding of how drinks are made and how people enjoy them, informs stronger creative decisions.
Raised between the wineries of South Australia and the competitive spirit of London, Max and Zoe’s partnership is sharpened by decades of international drinks branding and packaging experience. After working together in London, in 2011 they established Co‑Partnership.
Zoe Green
Co-Founder & Executive Creative Director
Throughout her career as a branding and packaging designer, Zoe has worked with some of the industry’s most inspiring brand creatives, such as Mary Lewis of Lewis Moberly and Harry Pearce of Pentagram.
Shaped by her London upbringing, Zoe is driven to bring brands a pulse, coaching her team to always seek richer, relevant ideas that build brand equity and inspire memorable design solutions.
Always one to challenge a category, she understands you have to know the rules to break them.
Max Harkness
Co-Founder & Creative Director
Max’s passion for drinks and design began from an early age. Son of renowned wine branding designer, Barbara Harkness, whose most notable brand creation [Yellow Tail] needs no introduction, he is a natural creative. Thanks to these behind-the-scenes experiences of the South Australian wine industry and a family-owned drinks specialist agency, he has uniquely seasoned insight.
Alongside his design education, Max has significant experience in technical print production and managing large FMCG brand design projects in Sydney and London agencies.
At Co‑Partnership, he leads creative thinking across all project disciplines, through a drinks knowledge lens, ensuring ideas are relevant to brief, and realistic to produce. Ultimately driven by a competitive desire to push creativity that delivers category-changing design that consumers love.
Responsibility
We lean in, own our impact and our part in the process.
Curiosity
We are interested and informed. We stay open minded and curious to learn.
Quality
We believe quality is a non-negotiable, we always strive to deliver a high standard and make every decision count.
Collaboration
We work together to embrace complex challenges and achieve better outcomes.
Progression
We push our thinking, we inspire people to think differently and believe in challenging convention.
Joy
We bring joy and positivity into everything we do, where people see problems, we see opportunities.
Zoe Green
Co-Founder & Executive Creative Director
Max Harkness
Co-Founder & Creative Director
Brittany Primmer
Agency Director
Alana McMillan
Group Account Director
Jase Whalley
Strategy Director
Eleanor Kilmartin
Strategy Director
Nick Cross
Design Director
Dani Wales
Marketing Manager
Emma Fitzgerald
People, Culture & Business Manager
Jess Lowe
Senior Designer
Ed Graves
Design Realisation Artist
Dylan Larisch-Morgan
Artwork Manager
Shelly Connolly
Senior Account Director
Anthony Mattock
Artwork Manager
Vanessa Singh
Account Director
Holly Herrmann
Senior Account Manager
Ziggy
HR Assistant