Kill Your Darlings

Destroy what you like to make what you love

We design experiences for brands to help them tell their story...their way

love, not like

Kill make 🐷 🐷 🐷 ✈️

Kill are creators

Kill are makers

Kill create experiences

Kill are dreamers

Kill makes clients say ⛪ 💩

Kill helps brands to grow

Kill are designers

Kill have passion for culture

Kill kill it, darling!

What we Are

We are a nimble design agency, specialising in experiential concept creation, event design, product design and event execution.

nimble

[ nim-buhl ]

adjective, nim·bler, nim·blest.

quick to understand, think, devise, etc.:

Who We Are

Danny Hendrick Creative Director & Founder, worked in architecture for 10 years before moving into experiential, product and brand design. Danny has worked on global brand design for Jameson, Redbreast, Midleton Very Rare, Absolut, Method and Madness, Powers, Klaw and many more. The merging of his distinct design disciplines is at the heart of Kill Your Darlings as he oversees each project from conception and design, through build, to activation.

Who We Are

Julie Murnaghan Client Director has a background in graphic design, film, animation, and interiors. With over 15 years of experience in both content production and project management, she has worked nationally and internationally for major brands across a variety of diverse industries.

How we work

We work collaboratively with our clients to help them tell their story, their way. It’s no longer good enough for brands to be simply seen; they must be heard and felt - for us, this is the principal of good design. We listen (then, listen some more), then create... nimbly. We work fast to create bold new ideas, working from the initial concept conversation, through the full design process, to bring them to life. We don't believe in top-heavy agencies racking up time, we believe in speed, simplicity and synergy. It's time to cut through the strategy and reveal you no longer have a secret; you have a story, for those who tell the stories rule the world.

  • CREATIVE COLLABORATORS
  • DESIGN-LED STORYTELLERS
  • EXPERIENTIAL EXPERTS

Who We Work With

From festival activations for global drinks brands and large scale events for multi-national tech companies, to event design for multi-media publishing houses and brand new energy drinks, we create a unique and unified experience that boldly represents your brand across all required touch-points. Much more than a logo on a screen, more than standard staging or dressing, your activation will be immersive and considered, eliciting emotion while cementing brand recognition.

  • EVENT & SPACE DESIGN
  • EXPERIENTIAL DESIGN
  • PRODUCT DESIGN
  • GRAPHIC DESIGN