Once-Future Office

Manaow

Bringing Bankok street food to a casual local dining experience

Brand

We designed an identity for a fast-casual Thai restaurant in Long Beach, California. The brand system, inspired by the restaurant’s namesake and the cuisine’s favorite ingredient, included a logo, exterior blackened steel signage, open/closed sign, business cards, menu, and t-shirts.

Exterior of 'Manaow Thai' restaurant. Metal cut signage showcasing a serif stencil-cut logo appears above the front window. A group of people are sitting outside dining, next to a pair parked bikes. Snake plants line the front.
Bright olive green, white, and off-white menus scattered across the screen. Olive graphics are sprinkled throughout the composition. The menus list various thai dishes such as, betal leaf wraps, panang curry, tom yum shrimp soup, and more.
Olive green cloth bound menu lays on a dark wooden table with dappled light. Brighter green 'manaow' logo is printed on the bottom of the menu.
A member of the kitchen staff places a dish with rice and curry on the expediting window.
Interior shot of the restaurant. A geometric pattern appears on the wall, with olive green, dark gray, and light gray triangles. People are seated at the wooden booths. A geometric light fixture hangs above.
The owners stand outside of the restaurant.
Interior shot of a wooden booth inside of the restaurant.
3 enamel pins rest on top of an olive green shirt. Top pin reads, "manaow 10th anniversary". The bottom two pins are a bright green lime and a red thai chili.
A hand hovers over an olive green paper with the "manaow" logo on the front.
An olive green t-shirt with the 'manaow' logo hangs off a wooden hanger. The shirt is in front of a detail shot of a lime tree.
Grilled Tamarind Ribs_by Magda Bierna
Plate of pad thai
Papaya Salad_by Magda Biernat
Miang Kam_courtesy Manaow
A container of chili sauce with manaow branding sits in front of a detail shot of a lime tree.
Olive green baseball cap with the "manaow" logo sits in front of a detail shot of a lime tree.
Exterior shot of the restaurant through the window. People are seated inside underneath the geometric light fixture, and there's a glare of palms tree from the outside.

Images courtesy of Magda Biernat and Ken is your friend (?)

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