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Hospitality / 2024

CommonGround

A warm, generous identity and digital presence for a neighbourhood restaurant built around the pleasure of gathering.

Client

Common Ground

Industry

Hospitality

Services

Brand identity
Website design & build

Year

2024

Warm neighbourhood restaurant interior with timber tables and low lighting
Interior / First lightConcept / 2024
The brief

COMMON GROUND needed a brand that could feel like the room: warm, unpretentious, and alive. A place where the identity works as hard on a takeaway cup as it does on a menu.

The challenge

The restaurant was opening with a strong point of view and a tight timeline. It needed an identity, a flexible menu system, signage, and a website that could handle bookings and daily specials without losing its personality.

Our approach

We started with the ritual of a shared table. A confident serif wordmark, a tactile terracotta palette, and hand-set details give the brand warmth and presence. The website puts the place, the people, and the food first.

Deliverables
  • Brand strategy
  • Visual identity
  • Menu system
  • Signage & print
  • Website design
Identity / 01

A place at
the table.

An identity with appetite. Warm enough to invite you in, confident enough to hold its own across every surface.

Identity / Main lockup COMMON
GROUND
All day kitchen & bar
Est. 2024
All day / sample 01

Good things,
shared.

  • House sourdough, cultured butter6
  • Soft eggs, greens, chilli crisp12
  • Roast chicken, bread sauce18
  • Olive oil cake, crème fraîche8
Open daily8am — late
Warm restaurant dining room with timber tables and soft light
Room / 01Warmth, built in
Palette / table
Terracotta#C6522E Cream#F4EAD9 Bark#2A201B Toast#E3B482
Voice / Warm, direct, human

Come as you are.
Stay a while.

Instrument Serif DM Mono Instrument Sans
Digital / 02

An invitation,
not a landing page.

A website that feels like walking through the door: warm, immediate, and full of reasons to stay. Bookings, menus, and daily life in one generous digital space.

A place to belong

A flexible, editorial website for a restaurant that never stands still.

Bookings / Menus / Journal
What success looks like

A full room, a clear voice, and a digital home that feels like an extension of the hospitality — not a booking engine with a logo.

+64%Online bookings in first quarter
2.7×Menu page engagement
4.8Average guest rating

Illustrative project outcomes. This is a concept case study created for demonstration.

In reflection

“A good brand doesn't make a place feel busier. It makes it feel more like itself.”

TELEPHONE / Common Ground Talk about a place like this