“Testees” Show Packaging – Designer & Illustration

Testees is a half-hour comedy from Kenny Hotz (creator of Kenny vs. Spenny) about roommates who make a living as guinea pigs for “Testico”, a drug and product testing facility. This show is crude, immature, unpredictable, and wildly hilarious. Each week our penniless and self destructively stupid characters, ingest and inject various unknown chemicals for cash. Once the side effects kick in, we watch this duo hilarity ensue.

When designing this first set of boards it was obvious that the show could have some medical imagery; I wanted to keep it fun but have a mysterious/unknown feel. Each episode is in fact a new “unknown” set of side effects and toilet jokes. I thought of a pill’s journey, winding through parts of the intestine and bloodstream as interesting and mysterious. There’s nothing funny about an enlarged spleen so I used a bright pallet and a cartoony style.

This set of boards was inspired by the small iconic illustrations you might catch on the side of a medicine bottle. I thought that there could be a  math equation that started off slow and slowly ramped into a huge math problem that would in the end solve as the end card.  Start it off somewhat legit and then throw a curve ball in (shark tank icon).  This would be a great tool kit for the shows bumpers, online promos,  and easily interchangeable. This would also make episodes and seasons customizable. No matter what + what will always = Testees.

Spillt did win the pitch however not with these two concepts. You can see the approved concept in motion on Spillts site.

Credits
Agency & Client: FX Networks & Spillt
Creative Director: Ryan Bramwell
Art Director: Chris Sayers
Designer: Tim Haldeen