Winter 2024/2025
Good Times Neighbourhood Bar and Restaurant
Interior & exterior signage for a New Orleans-style restaurant and bar in Woodstock, ON
Part I: Exterior Fascia Sign
Working under Erb Signs in Woodstock, ON, I was approached by a client looking to open a New Orleans-inspired restaurant and bar in the downtown area of the city.
The goal was to take the client’s existing logo and adapt it into a fascia sign that would fill the available space on the storefront. The long, thin sign area did not match the proportions of the logo, so I opted take the core elements of the logo– the clock and fleur-de-lys– and pair them with a new typeface which could fill the space.
I retained the same colour scheme as the existing logo, though opted for a black background to help showcase the gold accents and provide a sense of elegance and professionalism to the storefront.
⏴ The client’s existing logo that was used as inspiration for the fascia sign
The client had decided to keep a readograph sign that the previous tenants had left behind, which I then incorporated into the new design. I created a separate decorative element for the “Neighbourhod Bar and Restaurant” tagline, and placed it on the opposite side of the readograph sign to help unify the design.
Part II: Interior Wall Mural
After the installation of the fascia sign, the client came back to us looking to fill a 19 foot long interior wall space near the restroom.
At this point, the client had opted to use lime green accents for the interior decor to simulate a New Orleans/Mardi Gras aesthetic, so the goal for this design was to harmonize those elements with the black/white/gold colour palette that had been chosen for the logo and the exterior signage on the building.
The client was inspired by wall murals featuring collages of famous musicians, however we were concerned about copyright, image quality, and design costs for a wall of this size.
To simplify the design, I proposed that we use a limited amount of public domain images as the centrepiece, which I masked into the gold-tinted letters of “Good Times” to match the logo. I found several copyright-free images of musical icons to incorporate into the mural.
The colourful stock background includes green and gold to unify the colour scheme and keep in theme with the revelry of Mardi Gras. The foreground elements were simplified so the design had room to breathe.