Travel-Friendly Promotional Barrels

Client: Bundaberg

Agency: oOh! Media

Brief: Create realistic replicas of Bundaberg’s iconic barrels for a national promotional campaign

Big Kahuna created 7 lightweight, transportable barrels to go on the road with Bundaberg

The barrel is the iconic symbol of Bundaberg Brewed Drinks. So much so, they built their famous tourist centre in the shape of a traditional barrel in 2005.

So, naturally, when Bundaberg took their promotional campaign on the road last year, they wanted to take their distinctive barrels with them. But faced with lugging bulky, wooden kegs all over Australia and New Zealand, Bundaberg knew the real thing would be far too cumbersome so oOh Media! came to BKI for a functional alternative on Bundaberg’s behalf.

BKI rudimentary CAD drawing of Bundaberg barrrel design

The Bundaberg promotional barrels needed to be lightweight, transportable and as realistic as possible. First, Big Kahuna designed the barrel into three sections, nested within one of the parts for very compact transportation. Then to tick the ‘realistic’ and ‘lightweight’ boxes, BKI chose to reproduce the barrels in fibreglass from fibreglass moulds. The result was seven Bundaberg-branded barrels for oOh Media! that traveled around a healthy chunk of Australia and across ‘The Ditch’ equipping Bundaberg with high-fidelity, experiential marketing hardware that powerfully reinforces the brand.

Photo courtesy of oOh! Media and Bundaberg

Bankwest’s Doris & Her Ducklings

Client: Bankwest

Agency: St Andrew’s Australia

Brief: Create a character costume for Bankwest’s insurance happiness character Doris the Duck

Doris chatting with the ladies at Bankwest reception

Bankwest launched their insurance happiness character, Doris the Duck, late last year and St Andrew’s Australia approached BKI on their behalf to bring her to life. The brief was to create a Doris costume that could be worn for promotional events. Never one to create the stock standard, BKI put their stamp on Doris with modern techniques and materials on a tight budget.

In the end, we delivered a specialty piece with a neat solution for an immensely satisfying result. Doris is a large, cost-friendly character that is easily adjustable to different wearers – and quite spritely for a 10-foot tall Duck a l’Orange!


Some of the more technical details about Big Kahuna’s design for Doris

Doris pre-feathering (left) and getting ready for her big flight to Perth

Doris doing her thing at a Bankwest function in Perth

More photos of Doris…