This project aimed to produce all the basic branding materials required for the opening of a theoretical Italian restaurant based in Sydney Australia. As such, the restaurant would serve modern Italian cuisine with Australian cooking influences. The name Sapori d’Italia was derived from the loose Italian translation of “Tastes of Italy”, as this was a trend with many other Sydney Italian restaurants at the time.
The project required a complete brand identity that could be utilised across various platforms, as well as the design of several secondary touchpoints. These being an internal display, an in-house wine label, and of course menus. These integrated designs concepts required extensive research to ensure that elements like the colour scheme and typography, worked well across all the platforms and media, the results of this research are clear.
The final brand mark comes in three major variations, the master shown in the page banner, the branding badge shown above, and the secondary variant shown on the right. The master logo is a cursive script wordmark placed against a unique figure-eight design. This design is representative of a pizza being tossed, semiotically connecting back to the restaurant’s cuisine while also matching the flow of the script. This logo is the face of the brand and should be used for all external displays when able. However, this intricate design, although aesthetically alluring as and restaurant is rather long for some branding opportunities. As such the branding badge, with its small and compact design, should be utilised. This design would be implemented on the brand’s social media accounts and internal bar products such as napkins and coasters. The secondary design simply adds the additional element of a pizza peel, to the master mark. This ensures the mark can be used on any surface without interruption for the background, while also providing, assurance that any third party proves the minimum space for the wordmark to be read, even if the spacing is neglected.