What's new and what's good? Thingtesting spots and reviews new brands, helping people to make better purchasing decisions.
Thingtesting, founded in 2019 by Jenny Gyllander, is a database of internet-born brands, spotting, reviewing and cataloging new brands that sell things online, helping people to make better purchasing decisions.
As part of growth and expansion, Thingtesting needed a new updated identity and guidelines to support their goals. Kokoro & Moi was in charge of designing a new visual identity, guidelines, and selection of brand applications.
New visual identity finds its inspiration from the testing and laboratory environment, with the idea to convey the image of a brand that tests products and offers honest reviews to their audience.
A prominent element in the identity are the grids and elements that imitate the forms and test reports, playfully scaled up, and cropped for the applications' surfaces. The color theme is minimal black and white, with some poppy accents here and there spicing up the palette.
The primary typography is Spezia, a neo-grotesque typeface with a sense of simplicity, going nicely together with the form esthetics. In contrast, typography is complemented with Reckless Neue, a font with a renaissance look, to be used in the citations and highlights.
New visual identity plays with the grids and elements from the test reports and forms.