Block Burning Inward: one window goes off at dusk
A council block holds grey at dusk, except for one window that refuses to.
Kai Reynolds
Based in Shoreditch, London. Works in a style called Vector Grit: spray texture against clean vector edges, London greys with Lagos colour accents, layered identity motifs, typographic fragments, precise registration.
Kick Splitting Open: One Ball, Two Cities
The pitch is grey London concrete, the burst is Lagos market colour, and the ball is the thing that connects them.
Sound Escaping Grey: One Burst Per Piece, Every Time
A silhouette at a bus stop, headphones leaking colour—the rule is one explosion, placed where the energy actually is.
Smoke Becoming Tangerine: One Burst, One Barge
A Thames barge in hard grey vector, then the funnel erupts in tangerine and magenta.
Pyramids Pouring Mango: One Burst Is Enough
The fruit gets the colour. Everything else stays grey.
Circle Disobeying Centre: the roundel built to burst
The Tube roundel is the cleanest logo in London until you fill it with paint that refuses to stay inside.
Number Seventeen Erupting: One Door Does All the Talking
Grey terrace, one door, all the colour you need.
Chair Holding Silence: the burst that ended the wait
A barber's chair waits in grey and the clippers answer in saturated orange and violet—exactly one burst, exactly where it counts.
Exit Erupting Orange: when the door opened, the colour
A phone box holding one saturated blast, grey vector meeting liquid orange where the door swings.
Lamp Splitting Rain: when the headlamp becomes the storm
A black cab's headlamp doesn't just light the rain—it detonates through it.