A New York freelancer, Nick LoBianco created most of KST's kit art in the 1960s and 1970s. His involvement with KST began in 1962 when he was hired by a design studio which had, among many others, the KST account. LoBianco took over the KST account in 1965, when that studio folded. KST never had its own art department, but relied on contracted talent.

LoBianco painted his first lunch box, Beany and Cecil, for KST at the age of 22. Comfortable copying cartoon art, LoBianco's artistic style is characterized by static figures pitted against a background patchwork of solid color. The exception to this time-saving style is his masterpiece, the Lost In Space dome. A few of his other kits are Alvin, Captain Kangaroo, Barbie and Midge, The Munsters, Soupy Sales, Flipper, Get Smart, The Green Hornet, Lost in Space, The Monkees, The Guns of Will Sonnett, Yellow Submarine, Julia, Cowboy in Africa, Hee Haw, Lance Link, The Partridge Family, Bobby Sherman, UFO, The Addams Family, Kung Fu, and Space: 1999.

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