Kastner Creative

Mega Munny DIY @ Kidrobot London

Kas — Sun, 13 May 2012 11:08:39 +0000

Stumbled across this work-in-progress Mega Munny at the Kidrobot store in London, being done by UK based illustrator Podgy Panda. Very cool.

Big Dog vs. Big Rock

Kas — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:15:48 +0000

Shot this little video of a friend, Andrew Dickey, doing some Trials down at a beach near Wilson’s Prom just after Christmas.

Present Pod website has been launched

Kas — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:12:54 +0000

After a few weeks of fairly involved user interface design work – the Present Pod website first release has been launched.

Kastner Creative was approached to do all of the user experience design which included a lot of CSS, jQuery, HTML and some Python coding to produce the final product. The site includes both an app which is hosted on Google App Engine, and a WordPress site which is skinned identically to host all the static pages and the blog.

It’s basically a wishlist site, where you can track all of your wanted items, cool finds and then distribute it to your social media network, friends, family… etc. so that people know what cool stuff to buy you! There is a lot of functionality still to come… so stay tuned.

All you need to access it and make use it is a Facebook account (we may look at expanding that in the future to include other networks)…. and it’s free! So go on, log in – have a play around and send us some feedback using the form that’s on the left hand side of every page… we’ll take all suggestions on board for future releases.

Update: Present Pod has now been added to the portfolio.

Game for Change

Kas — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 06:21:36 +0000

Just launched a new website for Melbourne based iPhone game developer The Apptivist Studio. It’ll get added to the portfolio section in the next few days.

It’s a really great business run be an even greater guy, and more than half of the profit that is made from the game (after tax and the Apple App Store) will be going to charities (such as Sea Shepherd in the instance of his first game).

Kester Black packaging

Kas — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:19:24 +0000

The new packaging featuring the logo designed by Kastner Creative has arrived and it looks pretty awesome. If you want to see one in the flesh, I’d suggest you head on over here!

The Munny exhibtion at Villain is now over

Kas — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:11:48 +0000

My three entries into the Do Me! Munny exhibition at Villain have now been taken down. Thanks to everyone who went there and had a look at them. I won a Mini-Munny, so will have to find some time soon and make yet another toy. Stay tuned!

Designers vs Coding

Kas — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:06:44 +0000

Frank Chimero has posted up a very interesting article on his blog (via Frank) concerning the argument for designers to learn code. It’s interesting in this day and age that it’s still so necessary to have a decent level of technical know-how to be able to build a website. Adobe’s Muse software is taking some significant steps towards changing that… it’ll be interesting to see how more user-friendly methods for web development will change the face of the web as we know it.

‘Do Me! Munny’ show at Villain

Kas — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:25:19 +0000

I managed to get down to QV and have a look at the window exhibition at Villain today… They put the call out to the general public to submit custom Munny toys a couple of months ago and the exhibition went up about a week or two back. It was pretty exciting to see three of my toys up in the window, thought they looked really good and the display was really well lit. Check out a few photos I took of it above.

Looking forward to the next show they have, apparently it’ll be a proper exhibition (their last one attracted over 80 artists!).

Feedback

Kas — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:26:38 +0000

If you’ve got the time time to give me some new feedback for the website, new name, or the rebranding of Twist Media… I’d love to hear from you. Either put your comments here, or send me an email.

Do Me! Munny show @ Villain

Kas — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:30:00 +0000

I entered a few custom toys into Villain‘s Do Me! Munny show which started earlier this month. They should be there for another week or two, so if you’re in Melbourne and looking for something to do – then head to their shop in QV (Jane Bell Lane) and have a look at the window display. I’m still yet to make it there myself but I plan on getting there this week some time with my camera and will put up some photos then.

The toys that you can find there are the Birdman, the Yak, and the Zebra.