TKLE collaboration

TKLE Manchester-based DJ, Photograph, Canon 2000D.

In my undergraduate course, i studied Fashion Communication. I would use the Adobe programmes a lot, including: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom etc... This led to lots of differently edited projects in my undergrad with trials for some small bits of logo and graphic design.

At the start of 2025, I took some images for a Manchester DJ - TKLE. He recently asked to collaborate with me again on a logo for his sets. We worked together on this as he had some background in computers and design. In this posts I am going to include some of the designing process and what we came up with.

I started by just pulling some fonts - he wanted a graffiti style to the logo.

Then I made a rough vector to build off of. He wanted the 'L' to merge into the 'E', so I was trialling a few different versions of how we could design it.

We ended up going for the below variation of the logo. It was a combination of the vector with one of the graffiti fonts. I merged them together to have a unique feel to the final piece. I used a variety of Adobe platforms to create this. I used indesign to start with to line out the fonts. Then I used i ILLUSTRATOR TO MAKE MY OWN FONT VECTOR. I FINISHED UP IN PHOTOSHOP WERE I FILLED I THE VECTOR AND MERGED THE TOO FONTS TOGETHER AND ADDED THE FINAL TOUCHES.

I enjoyed trying something new and collaborating with TKLE. It was a fun experience and also let me have fun with some graphic design which I don't often get to do.