Work/Forge & Flame
Print & Marketing·2024

Forge
& Flame

A wood-fired restaurant with a clear point of view — and print collateral built to match it.

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Client Forge & Flame
Scope Print & Marketing Materials
Year 2024
Deliverables Menu system, business cards, reservations cards, window vinyl artwork

The brief.

Forge & Flame is a wood-fired restaurant with a fiercely clear culinary identity: everything cooked over open fire, seasonal produce from farms within 30 miles, zero concessions to trend. The food had a point of view. The print collateral for their opening week did not.

They came to us three weeks before opening with a logo that had never been applied to anything physical and a menu that had been typeset in Word. We produced a full print suite — menus, cards, and window graphics — in time for launch.

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Menu cover
Menu interior spread
Approach

"Bold, unapologetic — menus in heavy stock with a weight that tells you something before you've read a word. Letterpress-inspired type treatments throughout."

Business card
Reservations card
Window vinyl

Key outcomes

3 wk Full print suite designed, approved, and at the printer within 3 weeks of first contact — on time for opening night.
5 pieces Menu, business card, reservations card, A-frame, and window vinyl — all from one consistent system.
Press Mentioned in the local food press within a month of opening — the interior and the print both cited in the review.

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