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Creative direction · Brand · Build

DJ TK.

A thousand gigs of reading the room, turned into a site that books the next one.

Client
DJ TK · Hip hop & R&B
Role
Creative direction, brand & build
Year
2026
dj-tk.netlify.app
Available for bookings · UK wide
DJ TK
Live video hero

The live hero · a video that plays on load

dj-tk.netlify.app
DJ TK full website, below the hero

And the rest of the site · hover to pan the page ↓

01 The brief

It had to pass the promoter test.

A booker decides in about sixty seconds. They want to hear a mix, see the rooms you have played and know how to reach you, fast. TK’s first attempt looked tidy but, in his words, “didn’t feel like a DJ site.” It blended in.

The brief was a site with the energy of a club poster: loud, confident and unmistakably his, that lets a promoter hear the sound without ever leaving the page.

02 The approach
  • A
    Monochrome club brutalismInk on paper, sharp rules and a full-bleed live shot. A deliberate rejection of the neon-DJ cliche, so the work feels designed rather than templated.
  • B
    Kinetic type as the hookA giant “DJ TK” that bends toward the cursor, weight and width shifting letter by letter. Movement is the personality, not a decoration bolted on top.
  • C
    Mixes that play in placeHis real Mixcloud sets sit in an animated card-stack deck. The promoter hits play and listens without ever leaving the page, which is the whole game.
  • D
    A press kit in one clickLogo, press photo and contact bundled into a downloadable EPK, plus a custom rolling-dice logo as a memorable signature mark.
03 The brand

A logo that rolls.

DJ TK had no real identity, so I built one. The mark is a set of fat, liquid letterforms stacked into a corner-on cube, the “TK die”, a nod to chance, play and the roll of a set. One ink, two grounds: white on black, black on white, nothing else.

Monochrome · ink #050505 on paper #FAF8F2
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Archivo Expanded · IBM Plex Mono
04 The outcome
1,000
Gigs and 3,000+ hours, shown as proof on entry
6
Real mixes, playable without leaving the page
60sec
Built to win the promoter’s first minute

The site finally sounds like TK: a kinetic, single-page experience that opens with the numbers, plays the music in place and hands a booker everything they need to say yes.

05 In their words

He built the whole brand from scratch, logo and all, and turned it into something that actually looks and feels like my sets. My mixes play right there on the page, so a promoter can hear me without clicking away. He made the whole thing effortless.

Tanaka DJ · Hip hop & R&B
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