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Restaurant Redesign (student)

pmd21

Hello, I have to redesign a restaurant's logo for an assignment, and I would love to get some feedback.

The restaurant I chose offers fine dining as well as a more casual cafe in the front (although you can dress pretty casually in either part of the restuarant). It serves contemporary French cuisine, and the decor is very art nouveau, saying that the main restaurant is set in a turn-of-the-century, restored ballroom. Since the space is so "grand" and the gorgeous chandeliers inside left a lasting impression with me, I wanted to incoroprate the grandness of the space, its art nouveau roots and of course the chandeliers.

I've done many versions, but this is the direction my teacher liked best. I'm not exactly crazy about it (I think it may be a little too bulky and unversitle), but the other solutions I had didn't seem "grand" enough.

Please let me know what you think! Some good, constructive feedback would be wonderful!
grandcafe

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dan

Sara, just fyi, when you post a message here you will get an error message. Just go back one page and go to topics and you will see your name posted as the last post. It works.

I kind of like the first one. Especially if they made it a backlit sign

otomboy

Do you have photos of the chandelier? The illustration seems a little off, particularly the perspective of the bottom part.

Also the size of the chandelier is overwhelming your logo. I know you want to express the grandness of the space, but I do not get an impression of the space nor the size of the chandelier. Maybe if you juxaposed it with another object in the room (without adding too much clutter) you could get a better relational idea of the space. Or even cropping the illustration asymetrically might give some interesting white space.

pmd21

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