POST — London, UK

“One of the lessons we have learned when working with restaurants is to make any guidelines and templates as robust as possible. Design tools should be able to be used by any member of staff with little to no amount of training. Keeping things simple enables and empowers them to create assets themselves, and if this is easy to do...

Perky Bros — Nashville, Tennessee, USA

How do you find designing for a restaurant different to other identity projects? “Not much differs in terms of our design process, but one notable difference about a restaurant identity system is having the opportunity to create so many customer brand impressions within a very short window of time. But, just because they’re there doesn’t mean you always should. It’s...

Florian Gallou — Nantes, France

How do you find designing for a restaurant different to other identity projects? “There are many restraints that you do not find in all visual-identity projects. You must be aware of the place, the atmosphere, the people who frequent it… your choices must be coherent and established from the beginning. When we have the chance to work with scenographers and...

Caserne — Montréal, Canada

How do you find designing for a restaurant different to other identity projects? “Our approach is similar to that for other visual-identity projects. However, unlike corporate branding where each piece must be a thoughtful declination of a strong platform, in the case of a restaurant branding we leave more room for the playfulness and unique details of each piece. We...

Sowl Creative Studio — Larissa, Greece

“Food and beverage enterprises constitute a major percentage of our clientele. Each one poses a separate challenge! As is well known, applications in F&B are abundant. We consider each client’s needs and ideas, which we incorporate into our concept, in order to create a ‘toolkit’ used to build the entire identity. For us, this procedure is a journey, where the...

Hue Studio — Melbourne, Australia

How do you find designing for a restaurant different to other identity projects? “It is slightly different from other identity projects, mainly because we can have a bit more fun with it. Sometimes the target market is quite specific which we have to take into consideration with the design outcome, but most of the time it is more general and...