Waiheke Shuttles
Group transport, Waiheke Island. Live since 6 October 2026.
A new website for a group transport company on Waiheke Island, rebuilt from Rob's own details and photos, with his booking form carried across.
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Our work
Our work.
Websites, online stores and a web app we have built, starting with Waiheke Shuttles. The films and 3D we make are further down the page.
- 20+ years in tech
- 380+ companies worked with
- 300+ websites designed
We sent Rob a preview of his new website. He said yes. Now it's live.
“The best experience you could hope for from Nick, from his pro-active approach to us, to his ability to recreate our website using our details and photos is impressive. From start to finish our new website is active with minimal fuss from us. Absolutely recommend Nick and his company Five Stars for sure...”
Projects
- 01Waiheke Shuttles
- 02Powder Pros
- 03Snagged
- 04Keyless Solutions
- 05Entrance Handles
- 06Killer Groom
- 07Hi Class Gates
- 08Jaeco
- 09Construction company
Powder Pros
Powder coating and blasting, East Tamaki, Auckland. Live since 8 September 2026.
A light, phone-first website for a family-owned powder coating and blasting shop in East Tamaki.
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Snagged
Local job board, Pohutukawa Coast and east Auckland.
A free local job board for the Pohutukawa Coast and east Auckland, designed, built and run in the studio.
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Keyless Solutions
Smart locks.
A smart lock range for New Zealand joinery. The site answers the one question every buyer has first, will it fit my door, with a fit checker, a panel-width table, dimension drawings and a compare view across the range.
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Entrance Handles
Door handles and hardware.
A Shopify store for architectural pull handles and smart locks, set out so a handle can be specified without a phone call.
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Killer Groom
Men's grooming.
A men's grooming store taken over while trading and rebuilt around its range.
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Hi Class Gates
Made-to-measure gates.
A site for made-to-measure gates, where a gate designer replaces the catalogue.
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Jaeco
Window and builders hardware, East Tamaki, Auckland.
A design for a new Shopify store for a New Zealand hardware manufacturer founded in 1948: window and builders hardware, bathroom fittings and accessibility rails. The design takes the range from an older WordPress site to a store planned around trade ordering.
Construction company
Steel erection and rigging.
A website design for a steel erection and rigging company: services, a work gallery, a pricing approach, safety and a nine-field quote form, so a site manager or an engineer can send a job through in one go.
Beyond the web page
Renders, brand kits, app screens and campaign work.
Most sites need more than a template: product renders when there are no photos yet, a brand kit so the logo works everywhere, a gate designer when the catalogue is really a set of choices, or an ad set to launch with.
Night-time gate scene rendered from the gate designer's own scene files.
Photoreal tin render from the range look development.
The brand guide from the brand kit: the logo redrawn clean in six shapes, with colours and type.
Louvre gate hero still, print resolution.
Sixteen Instagram ad tiles for the range, all cut from the same brand kit.
The match-score screen from the Snagged phone app, which is not in the app stores yet.
The Today screen from our journal and reflection app, with a ten-second mood and energy check-in.
The journal screen, with writing prompts, a search box and a saved entry.
A frame from a pendulum-wave physics simulation rendered in Blender.
Motion and 3D
Films, reels and simulations, made in the studio.
Six studio films, each one built and rendered in Blender rather than shot. Every clip is muted, and every one has a play and pause button. They play while they are on screen, unless your device asks for reduced motion or you are saving data, in which case they wait for a tap.
Studio film
Resonance
A brass ball dropped onto 405 enamel columns. Each one answers, and the colour runs out from where it lands. Built in Blender, nothing keyframed.
Studio filmLoops cleanly
Cork tread
Cork blocks riding a machined track, going nowhere in particular. A material and lighting study that happens to loop.
Studio filmLoops cleanly
Poof
A brass ball down the chute into the Tea Break mark, 2,080 ceramic tiles, and then the machine lays every tile back. This cut went up on the Tea Break motion Instagram, @teabreak.motion.
Studio filmLoops cleanly
Coil
Brass balls run down a clear glass coil, one after another, and drop out of sight into a black base veined with orange. Built in Blender.
Studio filmLoops cleanly
Squeeze
A brass ball lands on a dark disc, a plunger comes down and presses it straight through, and it drops into the hole below. Built in Blender.
Studio filmLoops cleanly
Woven drift
A striped woven panel in tan, slate blue and cream, hanging in mid air and rippling as it drifts, close enough to see the weave. Built in Blender.
Your project here
The next card on this page could be yours.
Tell us about your business. We design your new home page and send you a private link. Like it, and we build the rest. If it's not for you, there's nothing to pay.
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