Menu

Design a menu for your favorite restaurant

The Brief

Create a menu (front and back) for a real or fictional restaurant/café. The document should be constructed so that it can be easily edited by someone with only basic InDesign skills. Because it will be printed on a desktop printer, no bleeds are allowed.

Trim Size

US Letter/A4

Learning Points

  • Establishing hierarchy

  • Working with inline frames

  • Using best practices for easy editing

Tools

InDesign, Illustrator

Fonts Used

English Grotesque, Clarendon Text

Inspiration

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Imagine you’ve finally gotten reservations at the hot new restaurant in town. You and your date sit down to order, and suddenly you’re stopped cold. The menu is horribly designed, with clashing typefaces and poor ...

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