Kessler Broadcast — 2026

Signal Loss

A broadcast identity that treats interference as the design language — not the enemy.

  • Brand Identity
  • Art Direction
  • Motion

The brief

Kessler Broadcast had spent thirty years making static disappear. When they moved to streaming, the old promise — perfect signal, always — stopped meaning anything. Everyone’s signal is perfect now. So we did the opposite: we made interference the point.

What we made

A living identity built from the artifacts engineers spend careers removing — RGB split, dropped scanlines, block displacement. Not decoration: a rule system. Every asset is the clean mark plus a controlled amount of loss, and the amount means something.

Systemized interference

  • 0% loss — legal, contracts, the wordmark at rest.
  • 12% loss — editorial and social, where the brand has a pulse.
  • 40%+ loss — motion stings and title cards, used once and never held.

The result reads as one thing across a thousand surfaces, because the noise is generated from a single seed rather than drawn by hand.

Outcome

A brand that looks like the medium it lives in, and a motion kit the in-house team can drive themselves — interference on a leash.

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