Design Kompany redesigns Maekawa restaurant’s menu

Design Kompany made business cards and this menu for Maekawa, a Japanese restaurant in Seattle’s International District. Here’s the front page:

Maekawa Menu

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8 Responses to “Design Kompany redesigns Maekawa restaurant’s menu”


  1. Gravatar Icon 1 Aaron Anderson Mar 17th, 2008 at 5:53 pm

    Interesting menu.

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 dipika Mar 23rd, 2008 at 6:43 pm

    Thanks~

    People have called our work “minimalist modern.” The thing that you can’t see unfortunately is the antidote to a too-stark design: to warm up the sparse, clean look a bit we found a textured paper. The stock we picked has some weave and tooth to it, along with a few stray marks that give the impression of a vulnerable human touch within the paper here and there.

    Oh boy. Does that sound too art-critique-y? Sorry.

  3. Gravatar Icon 3 Restaurant Marketing Aug 8th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

    That looks like a great menu. Do you know how much it cost though? To make the menu, not their food prices.

  4. Gravatar Icon 4 dipika Aug 25th, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    Hi, thanks for the comment. About the cost, Design Kompany quotes all projects individually.

    Give us a shout at letsplay [at] design-kompany.com if you’re in search of an update of your company’s “look and feel,” your brand.

  5. Gravatar Icon 5 Deli Columbia MO Feb 12th, 2009 at 11:44 am

    I really like the look of that menu - it’s difficult to come up with something that’s attractive, easy to read and that’s organized so customers can understand it. Must be especially tough to do so in more than one language!

    Good job.

  6. Gravatar Icon 6 sean Aug 16th, 2011 at 8:07 am

    Love the look. I find it to be a really crisp clean simple design. Looks so much more professional than the standard menu I’ve seen at many Asian restaurants. The blue headings along with the subtle coloring of the Japanese writing is excellent.

  7. Gravatar Icon 7 dipika Oct 18th, 2011 at 5:52 pm

    @Deli @sean

    Thanks for the compliments!

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