Trellis

A living blueprint. How Trellis’ intelligent health system made disorganised medical records, history.

What’s the truth?

If 63% of Americans admit they’ve lost track of their medical history, Trellis is the intelligent health system to connect it. Primarily focused on pregnancy and post-partum, it organizes every appointment and result in minutes to create the record of a lifetime.

How’d we turn it up?

This framework of health needed a foundation of its own. We built a brand that flexes with life itself, not just organizing but celebrating generational health from pregnancy and beyond.

We went all in on

150K active users in first 6 months
Used by 20% of top US fertility clinics
Secured $8M Series A funding
Trellis tagline on blue background by HOW+HOW
Trellis fingerprint-textured icon in use, by HOW+HOW

Fingerprint textures add a touch of humanity throughout the identity, and inspired the Trellis icon and subtle T in its grooves.

Trellis icon, with a subtle T formed in its fingerprint grooves
Trellis main typography on dark blue background by HOW+HOW

At the (haptic) heartbeat of the brand, the app distills a lifetime of medical information into one clear, manageable overview. Life organised.

Trellis digital product design by HOW+HOW
Xray photography of Trellis by HOW+HOW
Trellis 'record of a lifetime' messaging by HOW+HOW

Inspired by the bold, courageous and often imaginative bedside manner of midwives, the voices delivers what mothers need to know with zero varnish

Trellis tone of voice example, inspired by the candour of midwives
Trellis design system x-ray showcase posters by HOW+HOW
Trellis branded envelope featuring the brand's sunlit photography

A library of natural, sunlit photography, which celebrate lives through pregnancy and beyond with a diverse range of people, ages and families

Natural, sunlit Trellis photography of families through pregnancy and beyond

"We loved working with the team at HOW+HOW to craft the Trellis brand. Today, making something that looks beautiful as a brand is easier than ever, but that’s not what makes an iconic brand that stands the test of time and carries meaning across decades.

"HOW+HOW embody this and worked relentlessly and flexibly with us to craft it. They kept digging and pushing in all the right places. This is a level of true artistry to look at a space, look at a company, the ideas and people, and build a brand that’s of course strikingly beautiful, and also rooted in identity, storytelling, and clarity of purpose."

Estelle Giraud, CEO + Founder, Trellis
Trellis icon showcase by HOW+HOW

Proof of the truth

150K
over 150,000 active users in first 6 months
$8M
secured $8M Series A funding
20%
used by 1 in 5 top fertility clinics across the US
Oura
partnerships with Oura and Amazon

Credits

Strategist
Maria Galindo
Designer
Robbie Isaacs
3D Designer
Danhua Zhu
Senior Designers
Callum Richards + Eilidh Reid
Developers
Peter Kroyer + Rob Simpson
Digital Designer
Rose Norgrove
Senior Digital Designer
Raaya Pathare
Director of Narrative
Will Nicklin
Creative Director
Priyjah Paramasivam
Wild Thingz plant-based sweets packaging with Vee the Venus flytrap mascot, by HOW+HOW.
Next project: Wild Thingz