Team

Kester Low

Spending 4 years in Cyberjaya, Malaysia, Kester completed his BMm (Honours) majoring in Media Innovation from Multimedia University (MMU) in 2005. Upon graduation, Kester joined Sports Planet, a leading futsal venue, services & franchise chain, as its pioneer Marketing and Communications Director. There, Kester developed and established the iconic Sports Planet corporate identity. A year in, Sports Planet was awarded the Most Promising Franchisor of the Year Award and the Best Sales Growth Award by the Malaysia Franchise Association.

In 2007, Kester began full-time freelance work. Since then, Kester has developed identities for a number of start-ups and provided creative designs for a variety of clients. His portfolio includes art direction and design for magazines, booklets; advertising and promotion material for restaurants, fashion, camps, theatre productions; concept, stage and motion-graphic designs for stadium-scale musical productions. From Nov 2010 - July 2011, Kester joined Calvary Church as a full-time Communications Coordinator. His role included the preparation and presentation of a working paper for the development of an Integrated Online Communications system, a myriad of internal-communication media work, and several key conceptual and design work for Easter and Christmas presentations. Kester also served within the capacity of a programming team developing a contemporary form of church service called the NX. The NX effort precipitated the upgrading of presentation visuals and the integration of new media alongside thematic considerations.

Following a season exploring the arts, philosophy and spirituality in a community gathering called FreeCoffee, the advent of 2013 saw Kester resuming freelance work, increasing and expanding his repertoire of branding and design work, leading to the founding of a studio, Kesterize, in 2015. Alongside Kesterize, Kester also served as Creative Director in MAD Squared from 2016-2018.

Darry Lum

Darry is a problem solver and a keen boardgames enthusiast. He is a photographer, a designer, a teacher and a maker.

N.B. FORMER TeAM MEMBERS

Sarah Lim

2018-2022

Sarah wrote extensively at Kesterize contributing to the advacement of strategy, marketing and communications at FrogAsia. This includes but is not limited to the curation of a Brand Architecture and the publishing of a series of videos advocating for education reform - the HEART Series, now a Course - a part of the education conference, Leaps of Knowledge.

JASMINE Choong

2020

Jasmine is the one intern that set all the benchmarks. She was resourceful, focused, independent, self-motivated and meticulous. All the attributes you want in an intern. As part of a team designing an education intervention project during the pandemic, she was pivotal in developing a design language for FrogAsia we now call Transitional Realism.

David Ngeow

2017-2018

David possessed the mental agility and intelligence to follow and synthesise difficult abstract concepts. At Kesterize, David engaged in the philosophies that mandated the formation of a Designer Starter Kit. Our documentation and research for this project is still on the office whiteboards. It has yet to find a designer to latch on to. It is still incubating.