Becoming Best

Best A. Uthakhamkong

Brand Content & Video Production

Producer · Team Leader, University of Otago

Best Uthakhamkong currently leads an in-house production team of two to five at New Zealand's oldest university. Work spans marketing content, research communication, student storytelling, and campus experience. Selected projects from this role are shown below.

Research Infrastructure Centre Video Series

Films profiling four specialist research facilities at Otago, presenting the science and the people behind it.

Otago Graduate Stories Video Series

Documentary portraits of students filmed on graduation day, capturing their journey and what comes next.

Otago Experience & Promotional Video Series

Video content covering campus life, O-Week, Open Days, and marketing campaigns across the university.

University of Otago 360° Campus Tour

A fully navigable 360-degree virtual tour placing the viewer inside the Dunedin campus.

Brand Identity & Web Development

With projects across New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, and the Asia-Pacific region, Best works across brand identity, web design, and development. The work spans visual identity systems, digital experiences, and custom websites, developed end-to-end from strategy to launch. Selected projects are shown below.

HelmHR

Brand and visual identity for an award-winning human resources executive and consultancy in Otepoti Dunedin.

Vowly New Zealand

A new brand identity, visual system, and custom website for a New Zealand wedding photography and film studio built on honesty.

The Peace Club (Trust)

A brand identity and website for a youth-led Dunedin trust whose logo speaks peace in two visual languages at once.

Convergence Consulting

Brand identity and website for a Canberra project management consultancy serving the Australian Government.

CAYE Pacific

A brand identity and website built to represent eleven Pacific nations, carry Commonwealth authority, and feel genuinely rooted in Pacific identity.

DIRI NZ & Australia

Brand identity and website for an ancient manuscript research institute partnering with the University of Otago and the University of Oxford.

KOK Consultancy

New brand identity for a New Zealand employment relations consultancy, with an arrow hidden in the lettermark and empathy built into the palette.

Otago Polytechnic Social Media

A design system that gave a large tertiary institution's communications team the tools to produce professional content without a designer present.

VIDEO CASE STUDIES

Made from the point of view of the people and places we know

Video is the medium closest to lived experience. It captures light, movement, and time in a way that no other form of visual communication can. My video work is grounded in the environments I am part of and the communities I work alongside. I take care of the stories I tell, because the places and people in front of the camera are not subjects. They are the point.

Dunedin, When the Sun Rises from the Mountain and Ocean

Aerial footage of Dunedin captured at sunrise across a full year of production, from Larnach Castle and Mt Cargill to the university campus and harbour.

Interviews with Ambassadors and High Commissioners for Peace

A documentary series giving ambassadors and high commissioners the time and space to speak honestly about what the work of peace actually requires.

University of Otago, The Night the Aurora Appeared

When the aurora australis appeared above the University of Otago, I was already in position, turning a rare natural event into a lasting visual asset.