Neurapix — Rebranding case study

[Case study — 05/07]

A brand that has to sit next to someone else’s photography.

[Client]Neurapix, Göttingen
[Industry]AI photo editing for photographers
[Services]Rebranding, Logo Design, Brand Guidelines, Website Redesign

Neurapix edits in a photographer’s own style, so the brand has to sit on work it did not make. The mark is a lowercase n built from five bars that open like a shutter, warm yellow on black, and it holds from a browser tab to a billboard without competing with the picture behind it.

The brand it had was a gradient app icon in green and cyan: tidy enough, but cold, and with nothing photographic in it. We rebuilt it out of the camera instead. Focus brackets, crop marks, aperture halves and strips of film went on the board, and the n made of bars came off it. The palette moved from cool to warm, #FFC11F carrying the brand with #E32CF4 behind it.

The mark, at the size it has to survive

The test for this brand was never the logo on white. It is the logo on a picture somebody else took, read from across a street. Yellow on black holds there, and the bars stay apart instead of closing into a block.

[01 — the mark on a street screen]The Neurapix mark in yellow on a street billboard carrying a photographer’s image

A hero that is the logo, turned into a control

The mark is a row of bars widening into an n. The home page takes that idea and makes it something to touch: a wheel of photographs you can spin, frames running past the centre the way they run into the letter. The same shape twice, once standing still in the corner and once turning under your hand.

[02 — the home page: the wheel spins]

Features as a bento box

Six claims, six tiles, sized by how much each one matters, with the photography doing the arguing inside them. Playful without being loud: the yellow shows up once, on the arrow into the store, and every other panel earns its place with a picture or a number.

[03 — the feature bento]

Pricing, in the new colour, with nothing hidden

Two plans and one table. The yellow does the pointing: the paid plan is the brand colour, the pay-as-you-go column is the tint above it, and everything else is black on white. Every line is a feature you either get or you do not.

[04 — the pricing table]The pricing table: Pay-per-Picture at $0.04 an image beside Neurapix Unlimited at $49.95 a month
#FFC11F[the yellow the brand is built around]
1,000[images a minute, by Neurapix’s own count]
20k+[photographers, by the same count]
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