The creative partner
that does it all in-house.

Kankei is a branding and creative studio in Kent. We build the brand, shoot the photography and video, and run the social ourselves, so nothing gets lost between disciplines. Working across Kent and London.
We work with hospitality brands first, and lifestyle brands alongside them, skincare, wellness, fashion and beauty, wherever a brand's identity matters. 
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Backed by years of experience in photography and videography, we know how to make your visuals hit harder and look the part.

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We create brands that cut through the noise, taking your vision and turning it into something bold and true to you.

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Featured
Work

Selected brand identity, packaging, campaign and photography work.

2026

Black and white campaign poster for Flint skincare, a woman with cropped hair in a metallic dress holds a silver product tube, with the FLINT logo and "Strip It Back" tagline overlaid

Flint

Close-up of a woman smiling in a burnt-orange baseball cap embroidered with the House of Her logo

House of Her

Barista in a Diner Free From branded cap and apron pouring latte art into a takeaway cup

Diner F.F.

Woman in a headscarf on a phone call in front of the Barbican Centre, from the Oppo Reno campaign

Oppo / Nazifa

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(About)

Kankei Studio is a creative studio based in Kent, run by a small, hands-on team backed by a close network of trusted collaborators. Whether you're launching something new or levelling up what you already have, we're here to make sure your brand looks the part. We work with hospitality and lifestyle brands, offering branding, photography, videography and social media, all in-house, handled with intention, every time.

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Services

Purposeful work across branding, logo design, web design, photography and social.

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Branding &

Logo Design

We build brand identities that feel right the moment people walk through the door, and hold up the moment they land on your site. Strategy, positioning, visual identity, and the website that carries it all through, handled in-house from first thinking to final build. For hospitality and lifestyle brands who want a creative partner from day one.

Brand Identity

Web Design

Brand strategy

Rebranding

Creative Direction

Marketing Design

Colour System

Custom Deck

Mockup of a projecting shopfront sign reading "Diner Free From" on a sunlit wall

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Photo-

graphy

Campaign and editorial work for hospitality and lifestyle brands, shot and filmed with intent. Stills that anchor a menu, a space or a launch, and motion that gives it a pulse words can't carry alone. Shot, filmed and edited in-house, so the story stays consistent from first frame to last.

Product

Events

Campaign

Behind the scenes

Portrait

Editorial

Brand Films

Reels

Mockup of the Nova Clean website homepage displayed on a desktop monitor

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Social

Media

We shoot brands that have something to say, and make sure the images say it louder.

Content Strategy

Platform Management

Content Creation

Reporting

Portrait

Social Media content

Close-up product photograph of a silver chain bracelet with a jewelled skull charm

Notes

Notes on current projects, process, and the thinking behind the work.

2026

Gulraiz Hassan talking with friends at an evening event

STUDIO  / AUG 2026  /  4 MIN

Meet Gulraiz

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Brand designer, photographer and self-confessed jack of all trades. A little about who I am, and how I got here.

Mockup of a projecting shopfront sign reading "Kankei" with the Japanese characters for "kankei" (関係)

STUDIO  / AUG 2026  /  4 MIN

Kankei Studio Story

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How a Japanese word for relationship became a working method.

（関係）— Kankei

A brand studio built on relationships.

Strategy, identity, photography and social for hospitality and lifestyle brands. A few clients at a time, so the thinking never gets thin.

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