An Australian communications agency for design led brands, people and products.
We launched in 2015. Our founders bring over 60 years of combined experience across Australia, Asia, the US and Europe, built across luxury, design, lifestyle, property, and architecture. Senior judgement. Cultural intelligence. Creative rigour.
We work closely with a select number of clients at a time. High-touch, deeply invested, and in it for the long term.
Max&You is a full-service communications agency with offices in Melbourne and Sydney. We bring strategy, PR, content, design, social, events, and production together, so your brand shows up with clarity and conviction everywhere it matters.
Max&You is a full-service communications agency with offices in Melbourne and Sydney. We bring strategy, PR, content, design, social, events, and production together, so your brand shows up with clarity and conviction everywhere it matters.
We launched in 2015. Our founders bring over 60 years of combined experience across Australia, Asia, the US and Europe, built across luxury, design, lifestyle, property, and architecture. Senior judgement. Cultural intelligence. Creative rigour.
We work closely with a select number of clients at a time. High-touch, deeply invested, and in it for the long term.
Our Founders
Max Soans-Burne
Managing Director & PR Director
Max co-founded Max&You in 2015 with a clear brief: build a communications agency that genuinely understands the design, architecture, and lifestyle industries it works in.
A decade on, the agency represents some of Australia's most respected premium brands — local and international — alongside the emerging practices shaping what comes next.
Max leads the agency's client relationships and strategic direction, with a particular focus on the longevity and depth of partnership that produces the best work. He considers the agency's team and its clients — often one and the same — its greatest asset.
Richard Burne
Creative Director & Strategy Director
Richard co-founded Max&You with a background that moves between design and communications — trained as a furniture designer, with years in commercial sales for international design products and business development at the Indesign Group.
That fluency in the design sector shapes everything he brings to the agency: a preference for refinement over haste, and the conviction that the best brand strategy is an authentic one.
At Max&You, Richard leads creative direction and brand strategy across the agency's portfolio. He also works as a specialist consultant and board advisor to clients in property, interiors, and design, supporting leadership teams on positioning and communications at an executive level. He trained at London Guildhall University.
Our approach to communications
Senior-led, always
The people running your account are the people you'll talk to. No handoffs to juniors. No account management layers.
Complete, not fragmented
PR, content, social media, design, events and production all under one roof, working together, not in silos.
Invested for the long term
Brand value is built over years. We stay close, stay engaged, continually evolve and know your business as well as you do.
Our Commitments
As a collective, we seek to improve ourselves, the work we do, and the impact we have on those around us. We promote curiosity, respect, and collaboration, and provide our team with the opportunity to develop a broader external outlook and a deeper understanding of the world around THEM.
We’re committed to socially responsible initiatives and continually seek to improve all aspects of our business.
We Protect
Max&You plants a tree for every press placement achieved by our agency. Through our monthly donations, we have helped restore forested areas, strengthening habitats and ecosystems on which many species of flora and fauna depend. Furthermore, this initiative contributes to the reduction of CO2 in our atmosphere while also empowering One Tree Planted in their endeavour to educate the world on how we, as individuals and organisations, can have a positive effect on the environment.
We Support
Max&You have a long history of supporting cultural and grassroots design and creative initiatives by providing pro bono representation, consultancy and mentoring.
We Acknowledge
Max&You respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land throughout Australia where we live, work and learn, and pays respect to the First Nations Peoples and their elders, past, present and future. We recognise that Australia has always been and will always be Aboriginal Land, and to honour this sovereignty, we have committed to Pay The Rent, a practical initiative that directly benefits Indigenous people and communities.
