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A Place at the Table

Client: A Place At the Table Cafe / Table Raleigh

A Place At The Table Cafe is Raleigh’s only pay what you can nonprofit cafe providing community and good food for all, regardless of means. I was hired to refresh the logo with custom hand lettering, make it flexible so that the cafe could expand to new locations in Durham and New York, and create additional hand lettered phrases to be used as brand assets. I worked with Sababa Design on this full suite of custom hand lettered marks that reflect the spirit of the cafe and integrate seamlessly with the full brand refresh.

Initial sketches

Initial sketches

Logo iterations, from pencil sketches to rough vector

Logo iterations, from pencil sketches to rough vector

Process shots creating and refining the final vector lettering

Process shots creating and refining the final vector lettering

 

Process

We went through three rounds of sketches and revisions to get to the final pieces. Knowing that one of the main placements for these assets would be on signage and objects around the cafe, we tried each iteration out on mockups of the placements in the restaurant to narrow down and align on refinements to be made.

The main pain points for A Place at the Table with their previous logo were that it was very inflexible, it was illegible in smaller formats, and the font used was a free font that wasn’t really ownable for them as part of their brand identity. This new logo needed to maintain that friendly, rustic feel of the cafe but be confident, bold, and flexible so that they could use it and scale it for many years to come.

 
 
Final main logo script

Final main logo script

 

The final result was the main logo you see above, a badge-style logo for the signage at the Raleigh cafe, two alternative logos for use on things like merchandise, menus, and social media, and two additional hand lettered phrases to be used as flexible brand artwork - “All are welcome” and “Pay-what-you-can cafe”.

 
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