Branding an AI app builder with X-rayed Greek myths.
Tessel needed a brand that explains the product without a feature list, so every capability got a myth. Atlas holds your whole product in memory. Argus watches uptime. The Trojan Horse is code review. Apollo is voice. Medusa is visual QA.
Each poster pairs an archival image with a live-UI overlay, so it reads classical and engineered at the same time. Nine posters, one design system, one rule: the metaphor does the explaining.
I would go with B, the editorial split. For a doctor-led clinic the portrait and the calm space around it do a lot of the trust work, and the headline reads clearly without competing with the rings. In A the rings are lovely but they pull the eye away from the message and the...
For Appy, a London product studio for impact-driven startups, the wordmark, icons, 3D smile and Appy Pixel, its custom typeface, all come from the same grid.
Appy Pixel won Typography at the Online Design Awards.
Type first or symbol first: where do you start a rebrand?