Kristen
Kristen is the creative force and namesake behind Ten Kelly, known for going above and beyond to bring every client’s vision to life. With a refined eye for branding, she balances strategic thinking with standout aesthetics that truly resonate. Her commitment to thoughtful, high-quality design ensures every project feels personal, polished, and ready to make an impact.
Matt
Matt, a relentless wordsmith, is always in pursuit of the best way to say everything. He ensures every message lands with precision and power. As Ten Kelly’s creative director, he pushes boundaries, from the stories we tell, to the technology like AI which we bend to our will. Known for getting it done no matter what, Matt turns big ideas into results with clarity, creativity, and grit.
Our Mission: To provide soulful creative media & marketing solutions to people that respect our value in achieving meaningful pursuits.
a look into our logo
Perfection Is As Perfection Does
“Ten” represents our pursuit of perfection in design, always pushing for the best work possible. It’s also Kristen’s nickname, reminding you that branding is personal.
"Cattle Brand" Foundations
The simplest brand for a company is what we refer to as a “cattle brand,” because it could literally be seared in. A cattle brand consists of a type mark logo in its simplest form.
Styled Out For Prosperity and ️🔥
Purple represents prosperity and good fortune, which is in the background of all our services. Each shade in the gradient is a reminder that it takes time, and friction, to create fire.
Legendary In The Streets
Looking like a sticker that was placed on a traffic light high up above a busy intersection, this logo mark is designed to reflect Matt’s tireless devotion to the art of writing on walls.
Business Consulting & The Arts
Known casually as "MADE," we grew a reputation for being able to polish raw creative talent, and place them on in live entertainment and film or television. Working with musicians, screenwriters, directors, and producers of mixed reality gave us the foundation to understand how technology, media, and marketing all intersect. We learned the ropes, took our licks, and kept on going.
Local Heroes For Small Businesses
After establishing ourselves as creative thinkers, problem solvers, and strategic planners, we honed our message and focus in to help grow local Philadelphia area businesses. Our goal was to become underground legends that created an impact far greater than just social media impressions. We accomplished that goal and weathered the storm of the 2020 governmental shut down that destroyed so many others just like us. This resilience has proven invaluable.
A Holding Company For Our IP
In the span of less than a decade, we had produced hundreds of songs, developed dozens of films and television concepts, prototyped video games, created puzzles and software services, designed merchandise, and done countless other odd jobs. Liberty reminds us of our roots in Philadelphia, and the pursuit of freedom which spurred our desire to become business owners. Rose, like a phoenix from the ashes, because of all we'd gone through. Studios to house our creative efforts across music, film/tv, social media, web, email, interactive, and other IP.
Our Branding & Advertising Agency
Within our brand architecture, Ten Kelly Designs conducts our branding and advertising business. The banner is named after Kristen, and her nickname "10" which distinguishes her from "Kristins" and "Kirstins" and "Christines," as well as because (as Matt loves to say) "she's a 10/10 to me!" Our clients agree. Ten Kelly Designs is taking all that we've learned from being the scrappiest and toughest boutique firm you've ever heard of - to the biggest stages on Earth.
Gemini, Grok, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, Le Chat, DeepSeek, Qwen, ElevenLabs, Logic X Pro. These tools are used regularly for conceptual design, developing ideas, and generating content. It is important to remember that AI imagery especially still requires a tremendous amount of human prompting, as well as cleanup, in order for it to be usable as a professional design asset. That is a function that requires a professional, and is not recommended for non-designers.
Maybe, but we probably would choose not to do that. The more that clients are exploring AI themselves, it is helping us understand where they are coming from and what they are ultimately looking for. You’ll be pleasantly surprised to learn that we are even more adept at picking up on your social cues, human interest, and the things that make you unique - compared to how AI is designed to fulfill what it thinks will please you. Our work will blow your mind, and make you say “yeah!”
We have package rates for certain deliverables such as blog posts of a certain length, or specific types of social media ads, which begin at $500/month and scale up depending on how consistently a client needs our services. Some pay per project of several thousand dollars, others choose to retain us for the year and grow a 6-figure full-service program. Our credit system gives clients the flexibility to have a set amount of our output every month, with a designated series of types of content they can buy for a set rate. Others will engage with us by having us travel to their location for on-site training, collaborations, and live activations. We are flexible, and willing to negotiate for projects we believe in and scopes that fit our availability.
Typical lead time for initial projects is 3 - 4 weeks. For rush jobs, we can complete things like websites, type mark logos, and blog posts within 1 - 2 weeks for an additional fee. If given the time table, we can front-load production and have it distributed on a schedule for months on end.
Generally speaking these days we run client websites on Wix Studio because they are easy for non-developers to use, so once we hand off a website, clients can keep running with them. For certain cases, and many of our own sites (like this one) we use WordPress with Elementor Pro. Throughout the years we have built on SquareSpace, and have limited experience with Shopify. Kristen developed early raw HTML/CSS (and Flash) websites, and Matt has been vibe coding like crazy, so if you want or need something entirely custom (within reason) we can make it happen.
Meta platforms (Facebook and Instagram), Twitter (yes we still call it that instead of X), Reddit, and LinkedIn.
Adobe Creative Suite, as well as various Android mobile apps for image editing. We can work with clients using Canva as well.
Though we have hired sub-contractors and worked together with other agencies or freelance creatives from time to time, yes, it is generally just the two of us here at Ten Kelly Designs. But at the end of the day, media is only as mighty as the people behind it. There has never been a content output demand from a client we have not met, and we’ve produced a feature film on no budget in less than 90 days. We have silenced more doubters than you could imagine, so trust us, just the two of us is more than competitors can handle.
When it comes to generating organic impressions or buying them via paid ads online, or even in traditional contexts, we can essentially buy as much media as an agency of any size. While a major advertising agency could have a team of (15) people devoted to your account, we can outwork them and out perform them, for much less money. The outdoor advertising vendors and social media companies do not discriminate, and offer the same products (for the most part) to any size company via their DIY platform. Over the years we have created many campaign-specific accounts to amplify a message, and use subliminal messaging techniques to cause conversions.
Over the last (10) years we have explored and experimented with almost every social media platform there is, and have found that we have the best performance results on the platforms we chose. Our opinion is that there is no value whatsoever to Pinterest anymore, Snapchat is a less efficient and infrequently trafficked version of Instagram, and TikTok is not designed for brand longevity. Those are our opinions, and others are of course likely to disagree with that. But our company is not beholden to any social media company, which gives us the freedom to advise clients on whatever other tactics will bring them the best results.
No refunds.
