New Restaurant in Town

5. New Restaurant In Town

Restaurants all have such unique branding. When you go to Rainforest Cáfe, it is a tropical experience. When you eat at Goofy’s Kitchen, you are welcomed by all of the Disney characters. We do not realize that behind all of these restaurants with an interesting theme is a talented graphic designer, or maybe even an entire graphic design team!

New Restaurant In Town is a cool project to learn more about branding design. 5th to 9th graders would totally enjoy this.

Materials:

• Pencil

• Paper

• Colored pencils, markers, crayons

• Laptop/ Desktop (if available)

• Printer (if available)

Steps:

Start by thinking of the food your restaurant would serve, and that will probably inspire your theme too. Make a list or mindmap of all your ideas.

Next, sketch different ideas for your logo and the colors you want to use. This requires a lot of thought and following the design thinking process, so spend a couple of days on this step before finalizing.

Once you picked a logo, now you can make all the other materials you need to open your restaurant! Sketch different ideas for posters and menus!

If you are able to, go on Canva and bring your vision to life. If you do not have access to a computer, you can also just draw your final designs on a separate paper from your sketches, and color it in to look nice!

You can print out everything and even act out being in your restaurant!