It was a night worth celebrating at the 2026 Brisbane Advertising and Design Club (BADC) Awards, held on Saturday, 24 October at Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane. 

Colony Group agencies brought home an impressive collection of accolades, showcasing the creative talent, innovation and ambition across the group. 

Leading the celebrations was Type + Pixel, taking home an outstanding nine medals across four projects, including Gold for Baskin-Robbins Australia’s Creature Creators in the Integrated Digital Campaign category. 

Adding to the group’s success, Colony Agency Australia also secured Bronze recognition in the Creative Technology category for Icon Cans. 

Together, these wins reflect the breadth of creative thinking and capability across Colony Group, from integrated digital campaigns and brand experiences to innovative applications of creative technology. 

Type + Pixel takes home nine medals 

It was an exceptional night for the Type + Pixel team, with four projects earning recognition from the BADC judges and an impressive nine medals in total. 

The wins included: 

• Gold and Silver: Baskin-Robbins Australia – Creature Creators (Integrated Digital Campaign and Creative Technology) 

• Three Silver and one Bronze: Light + Shade – Brand and Website 

• Two Bronze: Baskin-Robbins x Spider-Man: Brand New Day 

• Bronze: Good Omen Films – Brand 

Leading the haul was Creature Creators, which took home Gold for Integrated Digital Campaign and Silver for Creative Technology. The campaign put children’s imagination centre stage, turning their hand-drawn character designs into an ice cream range available in Baskin-Robbins stores nationwide. 

Building on the success of its original Creature Creations range, Baskin-Robbins challenged Type + Pixel to find a fresh way to drive engagement, shift product and reinforce the brand’s commitment to nurturing invention and sparking joy. 

The answer? Invite children across Australia to become the next generation of creature creators. Through a nationwide competition, kids were encouraged to design original characters for the Baskin-Robbins creature-verse, with the ultimate prize being the chance to see their artwork transformed into a real ice cream creation, available in stores. 

To bring the idea to life, Type + Pixel partnered with children’s hospitals and after-school clubs, inviting budding artists to submit their designs. The team then developed custom AI workflows to transform the children’s hand-drawn illustrations into finished creature concepts, deliberately preserving the wonderfully imperfect details that made each creation unique. 

Three winning designs were selected and turned into actual products, becoming the unlikely stars of Baskin-Robbins’ summer campaign. The competition was subsequently opened to children nationwide, extending the opportunity to inspire young imaginations across Australia. 

In a world where technology is increasingly used to replace human creativity, Creature Creators took a refreshingly different approach: using AI to showcase it. By combining emerging technology with the unfiltered imagination of children, the campaign created a playful and unexpected brand experience that gave young creators the opportunity to see their ideas come to life. 

Recognition across Light + Shade, Baskin-Robbins x Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Good Omen Films further highlights the breadth of creative capability across Type + Pixel, with the team’s work spanning brand development, digital experiences and creative storytelling. 

Nine medals across four projects is an outstanding achievement and a testament to the ideas, craft and collaboration behind the work. 

Colony Agency Australia recognised for creative technology 

Adding to the group’s achievements, Colony Agency Australia received a Bronze medal in the Creative Technology category for Icon Cans, recognising the work of Marty Paunov, Tayah Hoekwater, Darren Walls, Heath Kunde and Daniel Pritchard. 

Created in collaboration with Coca-Cola, Icon Cans set out to commemorate iconic moments from Papua New Guinea’s much-loved Digicel ExxonMobil Cup through a collection of limited-edition illustrated cans. 

But rather than treating the cans as simply collectible packaging, the team saw an opportunity to create something more interactive: a way for fans to connect with the game and the players they love. 

Using augmented reality technology, each can became a gateway to the game. By simply scanning their can, fans could bring a life-sized version of their favourite rugby league player into their own surroundings, placing their sporting heroes right in front of them. 

The experience extended the storytelling beyond the physical product, transforming everyday packaging into an interactive surprise-and-delight moment. It gave rugby league fans across Papua New Guinea a new way to engage with their heroes by placing them, quite literally, in the front row. 

By combining illustration, technology and a strong understanding of local sporting culture, Icon Cans demonstrated how creative technology can transform an everyday product into a meaningful and memorable brand experience. 

The Bronze recognition is a fantastic acknowledgement of the creative thinking and collaboration that brought the project to life. 

Celebrating creativity across Colony Group 

From Type + Pixel’s remarkable nine-medal achievement to Colony Agency Australia’s Bronze-winning Icon Cans, the 2026 BADC Awards were a proud moment for Colony Group. 

These accolades celebrate more than individual campaigns. They recognise the people behind the ideas, the collaboration that brings them to life and the ambition to create work that connects with audiences in new and meaningful ways. 

We’re incredibly proud to see our teams recognised alongside some of Brisbane’s best creative talent. 

A huge congratulations to everyone at Type + Pixel and Colony Agency Australia, as well as the clients and partners who trusted us to bring these ideas to life. 

Here’s to great people, ambitious thinking and even more work worth celebrating.