About Astonish Me Creative

Astonish Me Creative specialises in building beautiful wordpress websites and creative video production. Want to make a good impression on the web? Let us run some analytics over your website and make some suggestions how to get it seen by more people.

We are highly qualified & respected for building wordpress websites on super fast hosting, and film & edit catchy promotional videos.

Websites

Need a website to showcase your business? WordPress is amazing to work with – as opposed to other web design systems. It’s has stood the test of time and performs best in Google search engines – so you get more potential leads.

Check out some recent designs below.

Videos

Need a creative video made to help tell your story? We use the best quality equipment including the latest in image stabiliser technology and 4K cameras to get those smooth cinematic pan shots. A great video will impress your existing and future clients.

What spins my wheels?

I’m obsessed with great design. I hold a BA/B Tch (double degree) majoring in Visual Arts and Graphic design.

In 2004 I completed my degrees including a thesis titled “Harnessing Creativity”. This is unique and allows me to understand the creative process at the highest level. I know how to generate original material and structure the process in a way that is efficient and gets a stunning result every time. Saving you a nasty headache!

There’s more to great design than simply making something look good. It needs to function even better! That’s what makes my wheels spin!

When I’m not editing footage, or building websites I’m out mtn biking in the hills above Nelson with my dog Micky. On weekends I enjoy playing guitar in the band at my church and love encouraging people to be their best.

Testimonials

“Extremely happy with Bryce’s work. Really easy to work with and very efficient. Thanks Bryce!”

“Totally blown away by the promotional videos we had made for Tribe. For years we had struggled to get our message and vibe out there just in words and pictures. Bryce nailed it! Check them out over at www.yourtribe.co.nz Video is the way to go!”

Caron Proctor – Director www.yourtribe.co.nz

“Thanks Bryce, you worked really hard to understand my vision. I am very happy with your design and web work. I am a very happy customer indeed.”

Allana Goldsmith – Singer/songwriter based in Auckland, New Zealand

“Bryce from Astonish Me Creative created a website for my business from scratch, he was very efficient & full of great ideas to make an amazing website! Working with Bryce has been a breeze! I can highly recommend his awesome design skills!”

Sarah Nyssen – Owner of Elise Hair & Beauty

“They say success won’t happen overnight but it will happen & behind every good CD or musician is a team of people that believe in the artist. Bryce encouraged me and listened to my ideas & crafted the album cover in a way that would be user friendly for both CD graphics and website. His knowledge, skills, empathy & expertise were greatly appreciated in making a somewhat daunting process much simpler.”

Christina Divine – NZ Independent Recording Artist / Actor

“A huge thank you to the team at Astonish Me Creative! I am very pleased with the final result. The imagery & wording is stunning and I am very proud to have such wonderful artwork adorning my first album. Definitely money well spent!”

Dennis Klopper – NZ Award Winning Classical Pianist

“VGM is one of Australia’s leading Independent music marketing & management companies specializing in distinctive marketing concepts for Independent & Indigenous musicians trying to break into the mainstream industry. We believe in the power of independence & the importance of ownership in the creative process for all our artists. Catchy branding & quality graphic design is key to achieving the best results every time. His attention to detail combined with the ability to interpret & deliver essential branding messages through slick design work has been outstanding.”

Vicki Gordon – Entertainment Director, Sydney

“Bryce and Astonish Me Creative were like a breath of fresh air in my search for quality innovative graphic design work to be utilizes for my album covers and general marketing in my journey as a singer songwriter. Not only is Bryce talented he is also and absolute pleasure to work with, which is so important when you wanting everything to be done just right. His advice and support has also made a such a big difference to my overall presentation to the public.”

Mark Harragon – Australian singer/songwriter

“He listened to my needs, requirements & meticulously put the whole puzzle together. I am totally satisfied with the manner in which Bryce conducted the website project, in fact I find this level of professionalism a ‘breath of fresh air’ not only in website construction but in customer service generally. Without any hesitation I totally recommend Astonish Me Creative to all in need of Graphic design & website construction.”

Paul Ubana Jones – NZ Blues Maestro

Love to hear from you!

Address

22 Alfred st,

Nelson South, New Zealand

027 446 5047

[email protected]

Follow the journey

Read my blogs

Have a read what’s been on my mind lately and learn something new?

Smush it – the smart way to optimise your website

Optimising images is important so the website can perform better. If an image is uploaded at say 4000 px wide, it will need to open and then shrink down when viewed on mobile phones. This takes time and slows up…

The power and purpose of blogging

Blogging regularly is how we tell Google that the site is active, up to date and searchable online. It’s is part of the site owner’s job to upload content relevant to the website. Bit like what I am doing here.…

Event photography

When capturing an event on camera it is important to consider what the client wants to achieve and use the images for. Recently I filmed and photographed stills to cover a local Womens Inspirational talking event called Her Story. By…

How is 5G broad-band going to affect our life in NZ?

Read this interesting article HERE. Faster broadband will enable new technologies like we havn’t seen before.

The benefits of a good NZ based web hosting plan

One of the most common questions clients ask me is how come $30 a month for hosting as opposed to a cheaper plan they see advertised on their social media newsfeed $4.95. You definitely get what you pay for. For…

Instagram

Instagram is fast becoming a favorite for the online community. It will pass 1 Billion users near the end of 2018. It’s like Facebook however you can only upload via your phone. It also allows 1 min videos to appear…

Google page insights

A good website needs to not only look good – it needs to PERFORM! Here’s a cool tool we use to test how a website is performing in google. This link was released by Google and is very helpful to…

Is your website mobile friendly?

Did you know that Google punishes sites that are not using mobile friendly formatting. WordPress websites are all mobile friendly. It’s built into the theme code. They automatically adjust widths to suit the device it’s being viewed on. Check out…

Integrity

I had this thought in the small hours this morning. A professional creative (or any business person for that matter) must have integrity to succeed beyond a certain level. It’s a crucial skill, just like timing is to a musician,…