Brass Union by Oat
Located in the Union Square neighbourhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, Brass Union is a pub and cocktail bar with a small plate dinner menu. It takes over the space formerly occupied by the restaurant and music venue Precinct, both of which incorporated the historic nature of the building as a former police station into their names. To British readers, Brass Union would comfortably...
Pablo & Rusty’s by Manual
Pablo & Rusty’s is a small-batch coffee roaster, wholesaler, retailer and cafe with four locations in and around Sydney, and a company culture passionate about sustainability and the pursuit of perfection. San Francisco based studio Manual created a visual identity for Pablo & Rusty’s that would better reflect their values, was sensitive to local coffee culture and is described as having a level...
Melt by Can I Play
Melt is a Australian takeaway and restaurant franchise with a philosophy that looks to honour the 200 year old Napoli history of pizza making and its origins as a fast and nutritious meal by mixing high quality ingredients and recipe authenticity with the speed, price-point and openness that today’s consumers have come to expect. These values are also reflected through an absence of oil, fat or sugar...
Mr Big Stuff by Can I Play
Mr Big Stuff is a Melbourne-based Southern American soul food restaurant and cocktail bar with a unique and distinctive interior designed by Technē Architecture and influenced by the music and film culture of the 1970’s and 80’s. The restaurant features an exposed concrete floor, timber and acoustic foam walls, neon signage and utilitarian furniture, as well as interior graphics and a brand identity treatment...
Café Royal by Pentagram
Once recognised as having the greatest wine cellar in the world and understood to have introduced French gourmet food to London, Café Royal, located on Regent Street, has been described as being the place for the avante garde to meet and dine for over a century. This year, to coincide with its reopening and reposition as a luxury five-star hotel...
PizzaLuxe by The Touch Agency
PizzaLuxe began in 2011 as a single restaurant located on London’s Brick Lane hand making good-value, freshly baked pizzas using locally sourced, ‘deluxe’ ingredients. To coincide with an expansion into the Stratford’s Westfield Centre, the brand approached Edinburgh-based design studio The Touch Agency in 2013 to develop a new visual identity that would communicate their core values within a more ‘polished’ environment. In 2014, The Touch Agency continued...
DF / Mexico by BuroCreative
DF / Mexico is the latest restaurant concept from the creators of Mexican market food experience Wahaca. Located on London’s Hanbury St. the restaurant combines an informal diner-style setting with Mexican fast-food and modern American influences. Its brand identity, a broad combination of print, signage, environmental graphics and website design by BuroCreative, is built around a simple mix of condensed type,...
Biju Bubble Tea by ico
Biju is bubble tea brand and cafe located in London’s Soho district that looked to bring and translate a product and experience well-established in South East Asia to the UK in a way that would appeal to a modern discerning market. This was achieved by focusing on fresh, natural and high quality ingredients, a simple menu with an emphasis on taste, a focus on the social aspects...
Oyya by Skinn
Oyya is an ice bar located in the Belgium city of Bruges that retails a variety of frozen yoghurts, yoghurt drinks, waffles and 28 ice creams — the most in the city. Its brand identity, which included logotype, print, signage, uniforms and interior design created by local studio Skinn, while largely logo-centric and having a strict consistency across stickers, tubs,...
Tamarindo by La Tortillería
Tamarindo is a kitchen and bar with an international menu due to open in October 2014. Located in Ourense, Spain, Tamarindo was created as a refreshing alternative for local walkers who are used to traditional bars and restaurants, and is described as a place with two distinct moods and spaces, the casa cocina or house/kitchen, a place for coffee and...
Violeta by Anagrama
Violeta is described by Anagrama, the design studio behind its new brand identity and packaging treatment, as an Argentinian bakery, named after its founder, that creates hand-crafted breads, cakes and pastries from its location in the Buenos Aires district of Las Lomas de San Isidro. Following more than 30 years of business and in lieu of a plan to begin...
The Empire Café by Graphical House
The Empire Café is a pop-up venue located in Glasgow’s Merchant City that looks to explore Scotland’s relationship with the North Atlantic slave trade through coffee, sugar, tea, cotton, music, visual art, poetry, debate, workshops, walks, film and literature. The café’s brand identity, a ship-like logo, bold sans-serif typography and both a limited and rich approach to print, designed by Graphical House, is described as linking a contemporary ‘artistic programme...