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Brand Identity

Restaurant identity, from sign to table

A complete identity for an independent restaurant — menu, signage, packaging and web presence designed so the brand holds together everywhere a customer meets it.

Customers dining in a restaurant whose brand carries through the room
The brief

A restaurant that looked different every time

The restaurant had built a strong local following on its food and atmosphere, but the brand around it was assembled piecemeal — a logo from one supplier, menus designed in-house, signage added when something broke.

None of it was bad on its own, but together it never quite added up to the experience customers actually had when they walked in.

At a glance

Sector
Hospitality
Project type
Restaurant brand identity
Scope
Logo, menu system, signage, packaging, web presence
Focus
Consistency across the whole experience
Delivered
2025
What we did

Designed from the table outward

A restaurant brand isn't experienced on a logo sheet — it's experienced at a table, at a doorway and on a phone at half past seven deciding where to eat. We designed for those moments.

An identity with appetite

The visual language was built around warmth and craft rather than the polished minimalism common to restaurant branding, so the menu and signage felt consistent with the room.

A menu designed to be used

The menu was treated as the single most important piece of design in the business — structured so dishes are easy to find and the price points read clearly.

Signage that works day and night

Exterior signage and window graphics were specified for both daylight and evening lighting, so the restaurant reads properly from across the street at any hour.

Everything from one set of rules

Packaging, uniforms and social templates all derive from the same system, which means new items can be added without the brand drifting.

The outcome

One restaurant, one identity

A customer who books online, walks past the sign and sits down at the table now meets the same brand three times — and it feels deliberate.

  • Brand consistent from signage through to the table
  • A menu designed for how customers actually order
  • Packaging and collateral from a single system
  • New items added without a redesign
Barista working in the restaurant under new brand signage

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