The brand for the bar and restaurant, Glass House features high contrast color palette and black and white photography. This gives it a sort of nostalgic and classy feel. The typography for the restaurant’s logo is well done incorporating the glass mark in the actual type. Catherine Bourdon, the designer, explains her direction:

Branding for a restaurant/bar/venue specialized in homemade beers, tasty snacks & live music. Consisting mainly of seasonal menus and live show flyers, this one color identity on colored stock allows for cost effective reproduction and recognition.

By infusing a little bit of grit and copy machine imperfections to contrast its simple and sleek aesthetic, the Glass House’s new look still manages to take a nod at the venue’s punk and hardcore roots.

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Widgets & Stone, from Chattanooga, TN, designed this lovely, easy brand for Easy Bistro & Bar. The use of dots to outline a flourish effect then continued through the logo’s type treatment gives it an airy quality. Almost like it was sewn without thread. I’m very impressed how it plays out in the tile floor, but wonder how it’d be embroidered. Great work either way.

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Starkly black and white, but maintaining a air of royalty and refinement, the brand identity for 28 Hong Kong Street by Manic proves you don’t have to always have a ton of color to make a bar’s brand interesting. Most of the time a bar isn’t going to have the lighting to warrant colors anyway. With dim lights comes lack of color recognition so a bar’s brand better translate properly in pure black and white. 28 Hong Kong Street does.. very well.

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The Guiness On Tap poster/flier is just amazingly done. Subtle, witty, and makes an impact. It gets that smirk from people who interact with it. Mahony & Sons has a very traditional and semi-nautical feel about it. It’s classic and warm. Reminds you of a true old-fashioned public house. Designed by Jenn Hicks while at St. Bernadine.

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The branding for Pop Noodle, a noodle bar and restaurant, more than “pops.” With one large seal-like burst in bright red with strong, white letters spelling “POP.” It’s hard to not notice. I especially like the way the “O” in “POP” is actually set slightly larger then the two “P” letterforms. This gives the composition a true visual POP. Designed by Creative, Inc.

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The brand identity design for Kongress Bar by DesignLiga is marked by strong nods towards Constructivist design and Russian design style. It’s strong “K” mark is unmistakable in its integration throughout the different touch points pulling the entire concept together. Using classic imagery sets the tone of the bar as a gentleman’s kind of scotch and cigar lounge experience.

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This is an awesome delivery of modern simplistic design. It hints at constructivism without the negative communist connotations. It stands out. It pops. The branding for Reed Espresso Bar is just well executed from start to finish. Designed by Anna Geslev

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Hand rendered typography and hand painted illustrations mark this restaurant’s brand by Ben Dalrymple. Vamonos, a seafood and tapas bar, harkens back to that small shack on the beach serving today’s freshest catch. It has a “homemade” and Do-It-Yourself style which, for seafood, seems dead on. Fresh, clean, quick and delicious.

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This is a small post but it’s quality, not quantity we want. Hopdoddy Burger Bar’s branding has a new-style retro feel. It’s a common style amongst designers that’s trending in a big way right now. Marked by distressed textures and hints at old style letterpress typographical layouts, the style immediately conveys earthy, natural, organic and approachable. Hopdoddy’s poster designs convey the same message visually. Designed by Make & Matter

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This classy, retro branding for Jazzatlan–a jazz bar in Cholula Mexico– is whimsical and inviting. Marked by classic illustrations and a cool color palette the bar’s brand touchpoints play and build off each other to create a vibe and feeling of coolness; the heart of Jazz. Designed by José Guizar.

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