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Range Sounds

Life is a soundtrack. Come hear yours.

Date
March 2026
Project
Brand visual identity
Category
Music & Nightlife
Sector
R&B events & media · Love in this Club

It started with one DJ and a loose underground R&B night. Word spread. London’s twenty-somethings kept coming back, packing every room. The brand had to catch up with the crowd, and turn a party into a name people queue for. That was my job.

01 / Feel the Flavour.Explore the full story ↓
The results

What changed.

Sold outBack-to-back events
2Companies under one identity system
MonthlyPromo cycles, now made in-house
1 → manyFrom solo DJ to nightlife ecosystem
The problem

A buzzing night with no visual identity looked like every other flyer in the feed. Momentum lived and died on word of mouth, and every promo had to start from scratch.

How I tackled it
  1. Internal discovery workshop with the founder
  2. Internal insights, distilled
  3. Primary and secondary research
  4. Comparative analysis of the scene
  5. Lightweight brand strategy
  6. Positive creative direction
  7. Visual direction
  8. Identity: core, then support system
  9. Brand in action: real-world applications
  10. Project presentation
The opening sequence / 02—04

On the street. In your hands. Around the music.

Transport application / London taxi concept.
Stationery / a recurring silhouette becomes a physical detail.
Lifestyle object / the same silhouette in three dimensions.
Project overview / 2026

Feel the Flavour.

Range Sounds brings music into the places people gather, the objects they keep and the routines they enjoy. The current presentation explores that world through nightlife, listening culture, campaigns and everyday objects.

Client / Brand
Range Sounds — an entertainment and media company.
Solution
A more distinctive, coherent brand presence across music, culture and shared experiences. Positioning, memorability and trust were the stated aims.
Services
  • Brand strategy & positioning
  • Visual identity & creative direction
  • Brand applications
  • Digital & campaign art direction
Credits Gavin Roy Nkalubo +
Brand strategy & creative direction
Gavin Roy Nkalubo
Brand identity & visual/UI design
Gavin Roy Nkalubo
Copywriting & motion design
Gavin Roy Nkalubo
Brand photography / videography
Gavin Roy Nkalubo
Production design & project management
Gavin Roy Nkalubo
Campaign & environments

A soundtrack
for the city.

The identity is put to work at very different distances: a billboard across a square, a passing bus, a record-shop frontage. Scale changes; the warmth, lettering and music-led attitude remain recognisable.

Range Sounds / Piccadilly campaign visualisation in daylight.
The same campaign world after dark.
Campaign visualisation / a wider view of the city.
The Soundtrack of Your Life / underground advertising concept.
A closer look

A moment
in someone’s day.

A close portrait and a short line carry the campaign into the commute. The visual changes with the setting, while the cream brand block keeps the signature clear.

Transport application / front of the Range Sounds bus.
Transport application / rear of the Range Sounds bus.
Festival advertising / desert billboard concept.
Environment / Range Sounds building exterior concept.
A record-store frontage with burgundy, cream and warm evening light.
Events & shared experiences

The room
is part of the brand.

Arrival, lighting, wristbands and the stage all contribute to how an event feels. These visualisations explore the identity as an experience that surrounds people, rather than a logo added at the end.

Range Sounds / golden light, projected identity and a shared music environment.
Range Sounds / a full nightlife environment with stage identity.
Event experience / VIP arrival and branded wristbands.
Music culture / a dance-floor scene.
Music culture / a trumpet silhouette framed by the curled portrait motif.
R&B event campaign / three mobile story compositions.
Range Sounds / the atmosphere

Good music.
Good people.
Good vibes.

Identity & graphic system

One recognisable world.
Many ways to enter it.

The circular seal, expressive lettering, warm palette and curled silhouette recur throughout the presentation. The identity is examined through the things it makes possible: a record poster, a paper edge, a keyring or a space to listen.

Music Is Life / lighter record-poster colourway.
Music Is Life / darker record-poster colourway.
Colour / in the presentation

Colour sets the atmosphere.

Burgundy and cream form the core, with pink and gold appearing through the supplied applications. These are the colours used by this presentation; individual artwork retains its original palette.

Burgundy / #601B30
The colour stationery suite with recurring curled edges.
A closer look

The edge
becomes an asset.

The silhouette travels from illustration into the cut of the stationery. It gives even a plain sheet or notebook a recognisable physical character.

The same stationery system explored in cream and black.
Notebook and archive system / standing arrangement.
Notebook and archive system / stacked arrangement.
Paper system / folders and notebooks.
Paper system / letterhead, envelope and finishing details.
Products, merchandise & daily rituals

Objects with
a place in your life.

The applications move between music equipment, keepsakes and domestic settings. Recognition comes from the relationship between colour, shape, material and atmosphere, rather than putting the same lock-up in the same place every time.

Listening products / a purple earbud case, cable and pouch.
Recorded music / Range Sounds cassette concepts.
Product details / earbud and case concepts using the curled silhouette.
Listening culture / a Range Sounds radio concept in a record-filled room.
Interior application / bedroom rug and music corner.
Interior application / rug in a home listening space.
The curled silhouette becomes a family of cushions in a listening lounge.
Object detail / burgundy lighter and circular seal.
The lighter shown in a lifestyle application.
Campaign portrait / lighter and branded print.
Everyday object / a keyring against a green door.
A keyring as an object someone carries.
Keyring / material, colour and seal detail.
Keyring with a red tassel against a bright blue sky.
A gold retro-phone concept carrying the Range Sounds message.
A closer look

Life is a soundtrack.
Come find yours.

The same world can be nostalgic, tactile and playful. The retro-phone application gives the verbal identity a familiar object to live in.

Drinkware / amber mugs in warm evening light.
Lifestyle object / a floating tray shaped by the curled brand silhouette.
The floating tray in a shared poolside setting.
Retail & working environments

From a listening spot
to a working space.

The brand world extends into discovery, shared work and interiors. Each setting uses different surfaces and objects, with the same colour relationships and recurring shapes tying them together.

Listening and discovery / retail vending-machine activation concept.
Environment detail / a wall of Range Sounds world clocks.
Working environment / branded graphics, furniture, records and objects.
Workplace application / a shared studio table.
Corporate details / stationery and desk tools.
Digital & broadcast expression

Music, culture
and discovery.

The broadcast concept translates the same world into a stage-like screen composition: records, a portrait motif, colour, equipment and a clear brand signature.

Range Sounds / broadcast set and video-platform presentation concept.
Lifestyle art direction / listening in a car.
Playful campaign art direction / a cat at the turntables.
Campaign art direction / a close portrait with branded lighter and lettering.
Campaign art direction / a leopard wearing branded headphones.
Range Sounds / the closing note

Feel the
Flavour.

Behind the work

How it was made.

Duration
6 weeks
Methodology
Iterative waterfall
Tools
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Figma
  • Adobe Firefly
  • GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
  • Nano Banana Pro
  • Kling
  • Topaz Labs
  • Pinterest
Workflow
  1. Internal discovery workshop with the founder
  2. Internal insights, distilled
  3. Primary and secondary research
  4. Comparative analysis of the scene
  5. Lightweight brand strategy
  6. Positive creative direction
  7. Visual direction
  8. Identity: core, then support system
  9. Brand in action: real-world applications
  10. Project presentation
The thread through the work

The identity travels through shape, colour and atmosphere.

Burgundy, cream, pink and gold recur across the applications, while expressive lettering and the circular seal establish recognition. The curled silhouette becomes more than ornament: it shapes stationery, cushions and the floating tray. Together, those details connect very different scenes without asking each one to look identical.

Through the Multidisciplinary lensStrategy, identity, campaign art direction and physical applications within one recognisable world.

Selected application visualisations from the supplied 2026 presentation. Brand credits follow that presentation. Depicted products, venues, placements and partnerships are concepts unless separately confirmed as delivered work.

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